Lukewarm Striper bite at Lake Murray

We were on the water at sunrise today hoping to duplicate our success from Monday.
Alas it was not to be. The fish were not as aggressive today and it took some effort to coax a bite. Tom got one around 30 FOW then got one from a school that had surface. I had a lure in the middle of then but they only wanted Tom's. He got his 3rd one around 8:30 and I was starting to get whiffs of skunk in the air. Finally I hit 1 at 35Ft.
Then it quit for keeps. We headed to ramp around 10:30 with only 4 fish.
It was fun though and it sure beats not fishing.
Did hear of some limits coming on live bait in 60-80 FOW. Planning to try them again Monday.Attachment 351016Attachment 351017

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Sounds like they must have moved out deeper evidently. We are going again Sunday. Thx , glad y’all got a few.


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You know what they say Ray, some days a gold mine, other days a shaft! lol

We were down there Thursday morning at daylight. Caught 2 stripers & missed 1 more. Did not see any boats catching anything. The 2 we caught were down around 60' out from the towers.

We do have slow days but it's still better than not being on the water :o

One of our CDC members, Snap Hunter, is a friend of mine and he also guides on Murray. He had a 5 man limit but 7 AM yesterday so they were there, you just had to be in the right spot. He uses live bait too for his clients as most would not know the technique of jigging spoons. You dangle a live herring in front of a Striper and he is going to eat it.
I saw where others were successful looking in deeper water so we will try that Monday.

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Sounds like they must have moved out deeper evidently. We are going again Sunday. Thx , glad y’all got a few.


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Think you are right even though one guy got 2 limits just out from the ramp at the dam in 40 FOW, most I heard of came from deeper water. I can tell you none of the bait shops have the 5" Nichols Flutter Spoon. Plenty of 6.5" ones for $20 each but he $9 5" ones are scarce. I have 4" but it is not heavy enough for deep jigging. My buddy uses the 5" and he does really well with it. I borrowed one from him to finally catch my one fish Friday.

Thanks for the report. I went yesterday and took a couple of buddies that I haven't seen in years and that haven't fished in years. We got a limit very fast on spoons. All our fish were shallow. I saw a couple of fish hit on top way up shallow and slid that way and the bottom was loaded in 20 feet. I was thinking it couldn't be stripers that shallow but it was and decent fish too. Got lucky I guess.