Staunton river?

[buzzard01]

I was just wondering who all on here fishes the Staunton river from the dam to down below brookneal? And what is the earliest yall have started catching stripers?

[striperseeker]

I used to fish it a long time ago. Back then I was told by some people who fished it all the time to start looking for the stripers around April 15th.

It depends on a lot of stuff like how deep the Staunton is flowing, water temperature, and the moon phase. But it is too early to see them come up river now.

[grasscutter]

I worked at the lane co truck shop... Basically 150 yards from the river for 20 years and when ever the trees along the fanks where starting to leaf out you could find fish in the river. But they got to regulating the water so much to keep the fish at brookneal area that I haven't heard of many fish being caught up this far in the past few years. Years when we would have hard rains and have the river way up would be good times to fish because the fish would swim on up here. We canoe and yak the river a lot from the dam to altavista and the water isn't waist deep most of the way but in about 5-6 places...... Just isn't much water here any more

[buzzard01]

Yea the water has a lot to do with them. They just won't give us the water like they use to and we don't get nearly the rain we use to get. If caught the in late march while white bass fishing. We just need a good flood around that time and the fist school will come up with the white bass.

[grizzly1648]

Well im no expert , but the past fee years I myself have started catching the in the later part of march. I do throw artificial.