Murray Report 1/24/15

After looking at the forecast for today and seeing "winds light and variable," I was all in for a fishing trip!

The morning started out cold... 23 to be exact, but the wind didn't blow and the sun came out and made fishing very comfortable.

Well the Striper Capital of the Universe lived up to its hype at my first stop. I boated 4 of them and had 3 keepers. The biggest two were around 8.5 lb a piece. It was quite the tussle on 14' poles, but they proved to be too much for the line sides and I was successfully able to avoid any tangles!!

After 2 hours with no crappie bites I pulled lines and made a run. Didn't take long before I hooked up on my first crappie of the day, a 1.9 lb buck fish. I stayed in one little stretch the rest of the day and managed to catch 7 and lost another 3 that I'm certain were crappie. It was slow going, but I wasn't sure I could find anything better so I stayed with it and beat out a mess of fish.

Best color today was pink and fish were caught 12-14 foot down in 12-20 FOW. Tightlining was the method of choice today. Water was pretty dingy but fishable in the Little River arm and the water temp was down to 43 degrees. Things should pick up in the coming weeks.

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Good job Derek. Hope the weather settles down a bit, I am ready to give it a shot. 23 is a really cold start, glad it warmed up a bit. Tuesday sposed to be in the 60s. Looks like you depleted the perch population too, least a couple of the smaller ones look like perch in the picture.

Nice mess of fish. Thanks for the report.

That looks like a good days work. Nice job CB! Thanks for the pictures. Did you tip your jigs with minnows or fish minnows at all?

Nice catch and report Derek.

I'AM GLAD YOU GOT TO GO THANK'S FOR PICK'S AND POST:fish:fish:fish:fish

nice catch! you caught those stripers on crappie tackle at what depth?

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Originally Posted by OBRage

That looks like a good days work. Nice job CB! Thanks for the pictures. Did you tip your jigs with minnows or fish minnows at all?

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OB, I had minnows on every hook in the water.

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Originally Posted by r2002

nice catch! you caught those stripers on crappie tackle at what depth?

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Yes, the striper were caught while crappie fishing on jigs and tuffies. They were 12-14 ft down in about 14 ft of water. There was a lot of bait in the area. I caught the 3 keepers in about 20 minutes while I was trying to pack up to move. Just hit a school of them...

Good report and a nice catch. The fun begins when the striper hits the long rods :) Thanks for the report Derick.

Glad somebody was brave enough to get out.Thanks for the report

Nice catch and report Derrick. The pictures are awesome been wanting to go but is too cold in the mornings for this old man. Had planned on tomorrow bet got a Dr's appointment. I am ready to tangle with some of those stripers.

Nice! It was wicked cold yesterday!

What you doing on Murray you should have been on Wylie... you fishing Saturday?

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Originally Posted by stumpjumper

What you doing on Murray you should have been on Wylie... you fishing Saturday?

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Haha yeah, we are fishing Saturday. Planning on a Friday trip up there to practice. We were planning to go up there Sunday but we decided against it. Figured a lot would change over the course of the week with some slightly warmer temps and all the cold water coming into the lake.

good you got out and got a mess thanks for report and pics

Me thinks I know that lonely fisherman in the 1st picture you shot:banghead:banghead. He looks a little lost thougHnononononono :Rofl

And I thought we were the only ones out there in the 23 degrees. It was nice when the sun came up though. :ThumbsUp

We ended up fishing some of our brush that we recently sank in the Adams Camp area and only netted 3 crappie but had one really nice female. The perch and stripers were too thick for the crappie to fight through and as soon as you let the minnows down the perch were on it. Ended up keeping 33 really nice perch, 2 keeper stripers and 3 good crappie.

I probably saw more bait fish in the small area we were in than I've seen in all of Lake Murray before. Bait was everywhere. I guess the crappie were holding tight to the brush with fat bellies full of shad. :dono

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Me thinks I know that lonely fisherman in the 1st picture you shot:banghead:banghead. He looks a little lost thougHnononononono :Rofl

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I think you do know that fella!! That big red ranger was looking pretty over there. The captain appeared to know what he was doing, but I did hear a couple "Sunday school" words when the rock fish swam through his setup!!

yeah he called me and said he fished sunday and you were right about the stripers....

Way to go Derek! That's a nice mess of fish. It was very cold yesterday morning! I had plans on going but wife hurt her back so I stayed home which was okay with me. Thanks for the report and pics. Good Luck next weekend!

good job way to go CB