Slow Spring- Population ?

[slammer]

Been fishing pretty hard-mostly night fishing since mid-march.

I have to say that this has been the slowest spring as far as numbers of fish for me in many many years. I actually cant remember a year this bad. Ive been fishing the lake for over 30 years.

We did catch some decent fish this year- a little better than the past few years but the numbers seem to be way off. I communicate with many other good fishermen and they feel the same way about the numbers of fish.

Any thoughts by others on the population of stripers in the lake ? I mostly fish the RR river and pretty much all of it and the main lake to the mouth of BW.

[striperjohn]

I've had a very good year on numbers so far. The patterns have changed a good bit from 3-5 years ago to back 10 or so. Just what I have been seeing.

[slammer]

Yea I dont know. I spent a lot of time on the water and really did not mark the amounts of fish that I would normally. Just wonderin what others that spend a lot of time on the water think.

[ghostcomanche©®]

May 29, 2016 16:05:56 GMT -5 slammer said:

Been fishing pretty hard-mostly night fishing since mid-march.

I have to say that this has been the slowest spring as far as numbers of fish for me in many many years. I actually cant remember a year this bad. Ive been fishing the lake for over 30 years.

We did catch some decent fish this year- a little better than the past few years but the numbers seem to be way off. I communicate with many other good fishermen and they feel the same way about the numbers of fish.

Any thoughts by others on the population of stripers in the lake ? I mostly fish the RR river and pretty much all of it and the main lake to the mouth of BW.

The total numbers for me at night has also been lower than past years.  I've had a few good fish this spring, but even those are down from the last few years.

I fish only at night, and with artificial lures.  The same lures are working, it's just the fish are not cooperating.