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Post by hambone on May 10, 2016 7:48:48 GMT -5
Me and a buddy tried our luck at nite time topwater last night. We put in at magnum and fished every point in the general vicinity. Shad didn't really start working till about 10. Somewhere around 11:45 some fish started busting here and there. They got pretty wound up about 12:30. They were biting all over. Only lasted about 45 minutes then like turning off a switch we didn't hear a thing and called it a night. My buddy caught one small stripe and a nice lmb. We was both throwing broken back thunderstick black and chrome. Water was like glass all night. Think we seen one boat. I never checked water temp cause I never cut my fish finder on. Not sure if we was in the right place or doing anything right, never have do e a lot of nite fishing. When I do we hardly ever catch more than one. Is this a good area to fish this time of year?
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Post by johnr on May 10, 2016 7:51:43 GMT -5
If you were hearing them eat, you were in the right place.
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Post by hambone on May 10, 2016 9:15:41 GMT -5
We was hearing something hit. Sounded like a paddle hitting the water I've always been told that was stripers
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Post by smlfishing on May 10, 2016 9:59:37 GMT -5
We was both throwing broken back thunderstick black and chrome.
When you have multiple people don't put all your eggs in one basket try using differed colors or diving plugs until you see what the fish want. We have had good luck on F18's vampire and black and gold. I was always told you wanted to reel the thundersticks real slow to only make a slight V on the water. Sometimes it helps to nose your boat in and cast parallel to the bank.
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Post by Gator on May 10, 2016 10:04:58 GMT -5
We was hearing something hit. Sounded like a paddle hitting the water I've always been told that was stripers Yup yup....you heard stripers. I usually fish more down lake this time of year. Not sure if you were throwng to the bank or from the bank but try mixing it up. I've found that some nights they are busting on the bank and not hitting my lures. Try casting to deeper water from the bank. Many times those fish are staged in deep water and waiting to rush the shad on the bank. They can't pass up a bait when its right over top of them. Also. i try to line my boat up so that I am casting along the shoreline. I'll keep my lure as close to the bank as possible. Mix up your lure selection too. Bucktails, topwater and diving lures work too. I have done especially well with an Xcaliber rattle bait. |
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Post by fatdaddy on May 10, 2016 11:37:59 GMT -5
That Pattle hitting the water is Busting stripers !! Good Report
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Post by hambone on May 10, 2016 13:28:00 GMT -5
We tried throwing at the bank and also for up next to it and threw out the bank. Both fish that was caught was right up on the bank. But we didn't try anything different really. Does it really matter the color of plugs. Cause the way I see it they can only see the bottom of the plug which is chrome. What difference does it make if it's blue on top or black?
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Post by ghostcomanche©® on May 10, 2016 13:49:29 GMT -5
We tried throwing at the bank and also for up next to it and threw out the bank. Both fish that was caught was right up on the bank. But we didn't try anything different really. Does it really matter the color of plugs. Cause the way I see it they can only see the bottom of the plug which is chrome. What difference does it make if it's blue on top or black? To me, for topwater plugs, the color of the back doesn't make a difference. I have caught just as many on black backs, as I have blue blacks. Now, as far as deeper diving crankbaits, I have consistantly caught more on a blue back, than a black one. Not sure why, as many will say the fish can see the black back easier. It's kind of a mystery why they would prefer one color over the other. I suggest just trying both, to see if there is a preference for the fish. Just remember, the fish can be very finicky. What they hit in one spot, may not work in another. Just try different stuff to see what they want... Sometimes, you can be in a school of feeding fish busting everywhere, and not get a bite...Go figure...  |
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Post by smlfishing on May 10, 2016 14:24:32 GMT -5
Gator and Comanche are right on, it just depends on what they want that day and how they want it presented. This is the reason we wind up with a tackle box full of lures some battle scarred and some like new. I find that the most frustrating when you know there is fish but you cannot get them to bite anything.
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Post by ghostcomanche©® on May 10, 2016 15:58:11 GMT -5
Gator and Comanche are right on, it just depends on what they want that day and how they want it presented. This is the reason we wind up with a tackle box full of lures some battle scarred and some like new. I find that the most frustrating when you know there is fish but you cannot get them to bite anything. Back in the old days (30 years ago or so), I had been in stripers so thick that they would actually bump the bottom of the boat when they came in shallow, and they were all very big fish. You could hear the thunk, thunk, when they hit the boat as the school came up passed through. Back then it was not all that unusual to see 20 to 35 pounders, in the same school, churning up the surface. Even when that happened, you could sometimes not get a bite!  I guess that's why they call it fishin' for the most part.  |
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Post by Ranger1882 on May 10, 2016 16:54:39 GMT -5
What has changed between then and now?
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Post by hambone on May 10, 2016 17:14:09 GMT -5
Well I just left the sporting good store, got me 2 F18s one blue and silver the other yellow and black, I'm gonna try them next time. They aught to catch fish and fillet them all at the same time as much as they cost lol!!
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Post by smlfishing on May 10, 2016 17:40:01 GMT -5
Oh I agree but it is easier to say I don't think there is any fish here then to start second guessing everything you do because you can't get a bite but no matter what, the night bite is exciting. I would have loved to have seen that hopefully one day it will be back.
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Post by ghostcomanche©® on May 10, 2016 18:55:11 GMT -5
We was hearing something hit. Sounded like a paddle hitting the water I've always been told that was stripers The "paddle hitting water" sound is definitly Stripers. That sound is usually made by the Striper "tail slapping" the shad, to stun them. You usually only hear it when the striper had the shad real tight to the bank. It's a way the Stripers keep the shad from escaping them. I've had stripers slap a Redfin so hard, it would literally knock it out of the water. Those sounds will definitly get the ole' heart pumping, especially as they are working their way up the bank, towards you.  |
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Post by ghostcomanche©® on May 10, 2016 19:02:27 GMT -5
What has changed between then and now? The stripers are not as big as they used to be back in the heyday of the lake, and the schools they run in are not as large either. The fish kill back in 2000 really put a hurt on the big fish, and a lot of the medium sized fish. The SML striper fishing basically started over then. I remember fishing schools of stripers, down in the lower portions of the lake (the Dam and below), that would easily cover a football field or more. And they could very easily have been 20 to 40 pound fish. It was like watching silver railroad ties churning the river. When they finished feeding, the surface of the water would be foamed up. Back in those days, it was a great time to Striper fish SML. I'm glad I had the opportunity to do it.  |
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