Stripers and Crappies and Cats. Oh My!

I just posted a few striper pics on the Striper page. We caught em last week on Clarks Hill and the bite was hot. The Crappies have heated up too, I caught 23 last Saturday from the dock. Not to be left out, the cats are biting too as we had some herring left from one days striper trip and threw them out from the dock. 3 nice blues were added to the freezer from that test. Now we know what to do with leftover bait from Jody's!

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Get out there, the striper/hybrid bite is incredible. On Thursday we caught 70!

Chris

Now thats an incredible catch Chris. Any of the big stripers show up? How heavy were those blues? Congrats.:)

That's great Chris. Looks like you had a big weekend.

Awesome

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Now thats an incredible catch Chris. Any of the big stripers show up? How heavy were those blues? Congrats.:)

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The biggest striper so far is about 10 lbs. The big ones usually show up about mid may. The cats were eating size, 2-3 lbs each.


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I took your advice and gave the stripers a try today just trolling. I caught one that was over 30 inches. I don't know what it weighed but the length to weight chart for stripers would put it at 12 to 13 lbs. At first I thought I might be hung up because my reel was stripping line and the drag was set pretty tight. Then I thought I felt it. Then I could not budge it and thought I might be hung up again but I eventually got it coming to the boat. Only caught a few other small ones but that one was worth the trip, at least to me.

I forgot where you said you were on the lake, but I am in the middle section. We get the stripers twice a year when they come through in the spring and then again in the fall.

Will be down Saturday for a week hope to catch a few

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Will be down Saturday for a week hope to catch a few

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We'll see ya on the water. If you have VHF, we'll be on channel 68. Look for this boat......
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Nice rig!

No one came by to say hi today. I guess everyone was too busy. BTW, we caught 19 this morning. 15 hybrids, 2 green heads, 1 big crappie, and 1 big yellow perch. All on the bottom on live herring.

Chris


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Originally Posted by NCkenner

No one came by to say hi today. I guess everyone was too busy. BTW, we caught 19 this morning. 15 hybrids, 2 green heads, 1 big crappie, and 1 big yellow perch. All on the bottom on live herring.

Chris


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Have the hybrids ever showed up thick in the shoals in the Broad yet? I was thinking about going a couple of weeks ago and that flooding rain came. Usually I hear some reports by now from up there but it's been quiet this year. You would think this would be the week with the warm weather and new moon.

We went last Tuesday and only caught 1 catfish, only saw 3 hybrids caught all day.

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Originally Posted by Tracker60

We went last Tuesday and only caught 1 catfish, only saw 3 hybrids caught all day.

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Thank you for letting me know. That's kind of what I've been hearing. Not sure if the fish haven't come up yet or are already gone. I'm thinking they may have run real early as warm as our late winter was. I'm seeing a lot pictures of great catches from the upper end but all are from clean water areas in the picture so that's certainly not up in the Broad or even mouth of the Broad.

The males are in the shoals big time and the females should arrive any day. If you like fishing the broad river shoals, this week will make you smile! Attachment 456439


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The males are in the shoals big time and the females should arrive any day. If you like fishing the broad river shoals, this week will make you smile! Attachment 456439


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Fantastic information. Thank you. I actually headed up to Roanoke Rapids today to fish the striper run in the river. I stopped and got a big tank
full of herring at Murray on my way up. But fanged if my bait tank pump didn’t crap out and I lost 2/3 of my bait. Sickening. But the good news is we found drifting woth dead herring was working better than the live ones. We caught 44 stripers from 4 PM till dark. I’m just worried about keeping those dead herring fresh enough for them to eat for three more days. I thought about putting them in a salt brine slurry like you do with offshore baits to toughen them up. They are just in the fridge in zip locks now.