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Post by piper on Apr 1, 2014 21:25:23 GMT -5
Greetings, Me and a buddy hit Leesville for a few hours. In one of the coves I spotted a 2 foot striper near the surface. I wanted to be sure so We turned the boat and were close enough for my buddy to have the striper partially in the net before he swam off. I thought he may have been injured but he took off quick.Does this sound normal?
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Post by Gator on Apr 2, 2014 6:51:43 GMT -5
I'd say that fish recognized your boat and decided to just give up. :)That's rare in these parts. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2014 12:32:45 GMT -5
Ha!!!! LOL  |
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Post by grasscutter on Apr 21, 2014 6:26:54 GMT -5
Maybe he was just sunning or was resting his eyes lol
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Post by piper on Apr 21, 2014 9:18:18 GMT -5
I thought Bigun might have mixed in a bit of his WV water supply...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2014 16:20:01 GMT -5
piper, you said weird striper encounter.......not weird striper fisherman encounter.  |
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Post by dogsbestfriend on Apr 21, 2014 19:32:04 GMT -5
where is your fishing report  ? |
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Post by piper on Apr 21, 2014 19:32:40 GMT -5
A WV stripper encounter...that sounds like fun...must have at least a half dozen teeth though  Oh wait wrong forum... |
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Post by piper on Apr 21, 2014 19:33:18 GMT -5
where is your fishing report ? Me or bigun? |
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Post by dogsbestfriend on Apr 22, 2014 11:40:02 GMT -5
piper , you were on the lake who was netting stripers with a landing net, right ? was you not fishing ?
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Post by mwardncsu on Apr 22, 2014 12:04:51 GMT -5
Greetings, Me and a buddy hit Leesville for a few hours. In one of the coves I spotted a 2 foot striper near the surface. I wanted to be sure so We turned the boat and were close enough for my buddy to have the striper partially in the net before he swam off. I thought he may have been injured but he took off quick.Does this sound normal? This reminded me of one I encountered last summer of fall. I was netting some bait and noticed what I thought was a fish off a ways from the boat. I slid over there with the trolling motor and sure enough, it was a striper, just sort of barely swimming with its head right at the surface, gasping for "air".  I bumped it with the net to see if it would swim on off - it scooted away then popped back up. I netted it to see if there was anything obviously wrong with the fish - when I lipped it out of the net it fought like a freshly caught juvenile striper with no obvious external signs of injury or sickness, other than being a little thin.  Released it back and it swam off, only to pop back up again a few dozen yards away. My guess is it was a fish that had been caught and overly stressed - I don't expect that fish made it, but who knows...... |
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Oh wait wrong forum...