5-26-2010 / water temp – 75 / calm winds / sunny / stable pressure / temp – 80 degrees
Stripers are beginning to school. Found lots of bait between markers T13 and T16 up the Tug. Trolled live Blue Backs until 10 with only one to show. Fish finally showed up around 10 in full force. We managed 30 plus fish between 5 and 15 pounds. Striped Bass were positioned on the edge of the main river channel in 85 foot of water over trees. Trees were topping out at 40 feet and arcs were marked between 35 and 25 feet down. Most bites came on down lines with a few on top. Bite happened as fast as you could drop a line. Had 5 or 6 double headers. Left by 11:00 out of bait and a sore arm. Did manage to dive in after a run away rod with a striper at the end of the line.
Stripers showing up on Humminbird LCD
Hartwell Striper Guided Fishing
Tip: As always once you find a good amount of bait sit on it…. It took almost 4 hours until these fish decided to bite.
I’d like to take credit for at least half of these fish, as the bite seemed to catch fire about 5 minutes after my phone call this morning. I’d also like to know if you landed the striper on the end of the rod that went overboard. If so, you get full credit for him!