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Took my father in law striped bass fishing on the Roanoke river today. We had a good day on the river caught five striped bass three being keepers. Had to throw 24 incher back due to the slot limit. That's picture of the one we threw back
Man,that's a nice one for sure.Ive had the Roanoke stripers on my mind for a while now,been waiting on some current reports.Congrats to you and your father n law on a good trip.Looks like the river is high. Thanks for the report and picture.
That was fun, I bet.
Wow! that is definitely a good one. did you launch your boat at Weldon or Scotland neck?
Looking at the banks the river was a little high but the current wasn't that bad. We launched from Jamesville. They have a really nice wildlife ramp there.
I haven't been in a few years, I'm concerned about launching the toon at Weldon.
Nice fish, thanks for the report
Did you see many others caught? If not may want to move on up the river a ways. Fish are showing in Weldon and are strung down the river from there.
The ramp a Jamesville is set up nice. They built it in a little indention so the current is blocked. What I've heard Weldon can get pretty crowed. At Jamesville I don't think it's to bad.
To be honest we didn't see that many people there yesterday. The guy at the Roanoke sportsman in Williamston said they were catching them up river but he was getting good reports from down river as well. It seems like they were making runs up the river like Shad do.
That's a good trip for Jamesville.
Yes it can get crowded at weldon. Several ramps in between allows following the bulk of fish as move upriver. Just like shad numbers downriver drop as bulk move up and then opposite as move downriver. Same as crappie moving DEEP in winter and then as it warms easing into coves and then shallows then to summer haunts then fall places then back to deep
I know 3 different groups that used ramps upstream of you that caught from 30-50 fish yesterday
Please don't take this as preaching. I know you have said you are new and asked a lot of questions in the past so I was using it as a teaching opportunity.