Thread: Artificial Baits for Striper?

I crappie fish a little but my main deal is targeting stripers and hybrids on artificial year round. I would recomend a berry's spoon in 1/2 oz and another in .6oz. they are totally different shape and fall very differently. Some days they strongly prefer one over the other. These are most effective once the water temps get on down in the 50's. But since Wateree doesn't have bluebacks in large numbers they may be more effective other parts of the year too. Perch love the 1/2oz Berry's spoon too. I often catch perch and stripers/hybrids together in the winter.

Which colors do you like? I live close to Lanier and want to catch some!

Originally Posted by 91tiger

I crappie fish a little but my main deal is targeting stripers and hybrids on artificial year round. I would recomend a berry's spoon in 1/2 oz and another in .6oz. they are totally different shape and fall very differently. Some days they strongly prefer one over the other. These are most effective once the water temps get on down in the 50's. But since Wateree doesn't have bluebacks in large numbers they may be more effective other parts of the year too. Perch love the 1/2oz Berry's spoon too. I often catch perch and stripers/hybrids together in the winter.

Thanks buddy. Are they the flex it Berry's spoons? Do you bend them much?

Once I’ve FOUND feeding stripers, they usually aren’t too picky. Here are some of my go-to casting lures. Some shallow, some deep. If you are thinking about trolling hardware, I use a lot of Bucktails/trailers and some metal lipped plugs. Hope this helps. Crappie and Striper fishing compliment each other pretty well IMO.

I like the pearl with silver tape mostly. But some days they really like the Chartruse one too. I don’t like to bend them they have great action just the way they come. But I would be willing there are some days bending it would really work well and I’m missing out. But I would be afraid it would make the powder coating crack and come off.

If you are on Lanier, those spotted bass should eat them well too in the colder months. Lanier is full of blueback herring so in the summer months I would switch to power reeling the Ben parker spoons there. That’s a very proven tactic on Lanier and other lakes with Bluebacks. No idea how it would do in wateree which is mostly threadfins and gizzards.

Vertical jigging I have had some luck with spoons when the water is cooler. Pretty much any spoon but Berry's and Little Cleos work pretty well. Spring and Fall I have had good luck trolling for them with plastic swim jigs. Usually late in the afternoon close to sunset, they move up to about 4' of water and the trolling can be really good for a while then. They seem to like about 3" long swimmers the best in shad colors. Have to troll about 2 MPH or so. Test some plastics to see which ones still have good movement at that speed, particularly a tight little tail movement.

X2 on the little cleos. Have used the chrome with good results on schooling crappie, white bass, stripers, and white perch.

Little Cleo's work great once the water gets cold enough to stun the shad. If you ever see the stripers randomly swirling on top in the winter, a Little Cleo works great.