A Few Screen Shots From Sunday

I decided to go to the lake Sunday to striper for a couple of hours. Well this is my luck, I was almost in the town of Lexington when I got into traffic bumper to bumper. I called my wife and she found out they were fixing to have the Christmas parade! I know I sat at that light by the courthouse 4 or 5 lights. Then once out of that it was smooth sailing to JC's for bait. My luck again, sold out of bait yesterday! But he did have minnows. So I got me some minnows and traveled on to the landing. I got to where I wanted to fish and found nothing on the DF. I trolled around and saw a few on the DF so I dropped the minnows. I trolled and trolled around finally caught 1 perch. I finally said the heck with the minnows put them away and trolled with a bucktail. I tried that for awhile and all of a sudden stripers started schooling in front of me about 80yds, then behind me away's and to my right. I cast my top water lure and a hit but lost it. It was over just that quick so I reeled in my bucktail and decided to make 1 last cast out of the back. I twitched it twice and bam he hit it! So I ended up with 1 floating perch and 1 19in striper released. Now for the screen shotsAttachment 221828Attachment 221829Attachment 221830

My goodness that sure looks like a pile of perch to me. The images I got Friday in Bear Creek were one solid mass along the bottom which I took to be bait fish(like your first pivture). Your shots look like individual fish to me...lots of them.

Man o Man, Those screen shots get me excited just looking at them ! I do not know how fast you boat was moving but if at med fast trolling motor speed or idle speed on gas outboard I would think those last two were Striper. I would be dropping and jigging a Hopkins spoon or down lining some of those minnows/shiners 5-15 ft off the bottom.
Thanks for the report and pics.

You should have caught something out of that spot. I've seen those on my screen and I spot lock and drop a hook or two usually, perch is always there sometimes and the crappie are mixed in and get caught as well. Thanks for the pictures. Some day I'll learn which arches are crappie. LOL

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Originally Posted by BigDawgg

Thanks for the pictures. Some day I'll learn which arches are crappie. LOL

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I am going to take a stab at this and take a guess. Since perch most of time hang on bottom and come up to school. Perch do more vertical movement. Crappie do more horizontal movement so you can see which arches might blend to that. Any other guesses out there? School is in.

MY DF has a fish ID feature. By each image it says, "perch", "crappie", "stump", "beer bottle". (The Gen 3 version say Budweiser, Miller, etc. Mine just says "beer bottle").

I sort of thought after Friday you would be out of D, T.s but now it looks as if
you need to bum some meds from ofish and brettw :Rofl :Rofl

Looks like Murray striper to me. I was down there for three days last week fishing. Just fun fishing take herring. You shouldn't have any problem catching those smaller fish. To weed thru the non keepers i would fish with 6"-10" shad. That was the pattern last week.

Some nice shots. Surprised you didn't fill the boat.

That will get ya blood pumping. Nice shots

Satoma I was trolling about 1.5 - 2.0. Sometimes the whole screen was lit up like the 2nd and 3rd shot with nothing but arches.

REELDAWG that was my guess of it being stripers but the bait store was sold out of herring and shad. They had a big striper tournament saturday at the lake and sold out. I heard tonight the guys that one the pro division had 30 plus lbs with 2 fish. I think the purse was 15 or 16 thousand. The big fish was 29 and change.

Those big arches sure look like the stripers/hybrids I chase around here on the Hill. It's a shame you didn't have herring. I'll bet you would have some nice pics of stripe fish to show us if you had.