Post by screamingreels26 on May 29, 2013 12:05:49 GMT -5
Hey everybody new to board, not new to sml only get down a few weeks and weekends a year, thought I would contribute. We caught 41 stripers over three days... excellent fishing at the dam area caught twelve Monday 5/27. Literally all of fish were caught in the same area, away from the main group of 30 boats that were fishing you should be able to see the specific points in the following pictures. fish were in anywhere from 50-80 ft of water and were caught all on planer boards and floats with 20ft-25ft of line behind the planer. we were really trying to get the planer board away from the boat 40-60ft...this seemed to be important, as the down lines weren't as productive. We caught about 10 stripers in the 8-10# range and caught a 12#, 14#, and the biggest was the first pic that was about 15-16# and 35" in length. We were marking them pretty consistently between three points and would get two to three fish at a time, which was pretty hectic on the boat and doesn't happen often to us. All were caught on alewives, even the smaller ales were worker but the bigger ales seemed to be preferred. I think we had caught them right when they had finished spawning. Here's a few pics.
