Murray night time stripers

I have my grandson, Jeff, with me for a few days so we joined one of our buddies who also is named Jeff for some Striper fishing.
We got some live herring and hit the lake about 7pm.

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Jeffery manned two rods in the middle and also did a great job as our bait guy when we need to rebait the lines.
The fish were holding around 50 feet in 60 to 100 FOW.
We caught 4 nice fish, and we're on the all night but other than a couple of hits that did not get hooked, we could not tease them into biting. The 4 we kept averaged around 20" or better.
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This is Jeff 2 counting down to the fish. The screen shot shows our bait in with the fish, but bites were slow.
We got in about 1am and I never thought to take a picture of the fish until after they were filleted and in the fridge.

Congrats on getting out and hooking up on a few. Nice pics too.
Thanks for sharing we us.

At least Jeff got to go and experience deep water fishing for stripers, maybe next time he will have his own bait boy. :Rofl Did Jeff catch any? Great pictures and report! Thanks Ray!

I need to do a trip down to Murray some night. Ray maybe you should set up a night stalk for Line siders

Good deal Ray, congrats to you and Jeff x 2

I am going tonight. I hope i catch something

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Originally Posted by ScooperDude

I need to do a trip down to Murray some night. Ray maybe you should set up a night stalk for Line siders

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Grady I thought about it but it is hit and miss. We caught 10 a few weeks ago then Uncle Remus came down and we caught 2 fish. They were lighting up the scope last night but hard to trigger a bite.
There are excellent facilities and several good restaurants we could meet greet eat and fish. I just hate to have a bunch of guys come down and the fish be bad.
If y'all decide you want to try I'll be glad to do t.

By the way I realize us old poots forget stuff but I am pretty sure I didn't put the praying hands at the front of the title. Since only a moderator can change other people's post, my list of suspects is really short. nonono

Ray that is what makes fishing interesting you never know if they will feed or not. We drive up there and don't catch any so they can drive down here and not catch any right. Put a day out there and see who is interested. I will be there and can fish another 2 in my boat. Glad you and the jeffs got to catch a couple.

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Originally Posted by sinkermaker

Ray that is what makes fishing interesting you never know if they will feed or not. We drive up there and don't catch any so they can drive down here and not catch any right. Put a day out there and see who is interested. I will be there and can fish another 2 in my boat. Glad you and the jeffs got to catch a couple.

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:he said I can pull the USS Uncle Remus 2 down == 3--4 can fish off her if fish don't bite its just called fishin!! if fish bite its called catchin :biggrin

Good report Ray. Hate that the bite turned out to be slow s I know you would have liked to get Jeff on some good fish. The praying hands, well I know nothing about where they come from :)

I'm probably going down this friday night. I went last Sunday and couldn't buy a bite but i need revenge so may go again this friday. Be nice to know a couple of other boats because if one gets on them we could radio the others as to where they are feeding. Seems like you find the fish feeding you catch your limit pretty quick.

I was just wondering if someone could fill me in a little bit on the 5 n done rule. So if there's 2 people on the boat fishing together does that mean they can attempt/possess 10 fish instead of the 5 or is it 5 per boat. And I'm under the impression that you can try to release all the fish but you just can't keep fishing anymore after the limit. Correct?

The 5 and done applies to each angler. When you catch your 5 you are supposed to quit fishing. They are out there watching with binoculars to catch people that do not stop fishing. Yes you can release fish but they would rather you keep them especially if they come up from 59 to100 ft as the mortally rate is high. Released fish applies to you 5 fish limit.

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Originally Posted by sinkermaker

The 5 and done applies to each angler. When you catch your 5 you are supposed to quit fishing. They are out there watching with binoculars to catch people that do not stop fishing. Yes you can release fish but they would rather you keep them especially if they come up from 59 to100 ft as the mortally rate is high. Released fish applies to you 5 fish limit.

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I will attest to that they do watch you from binoculars. In fact they like to blend in with a jon boat. They were at the towers on sunday PM.

also like sinkermaker said, the chances of them surviving this time of year is like 10%, that's why they don't want you culling them.

Matanza I might be there Friday or Saturday night. Will know better tomorrow.

DO THEY STILL HAVE THE 21 INCH RULE
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No not during the summer months. Once you catch 5 your done.