Striped Bass

I've never caught one in my life.
I'm interested on who catches them where.
Are they good to eat?
What you catch em on?

Sassy shad on 1 oz jig head
4" and 5" Wild eye swim shad
large hair jigs
full size zara spooks
6" rapalas
large rattle traps or cordell spots
1 to 2 oz lead slabs also



all in shad/white/silver/or chartruse colors


you will be fishing open water and humps and looking for schooling fish. you will need MH to H rods and reels. They pull like freight trains.


keep at least one rod rigged with a top water and one with a swimbait at all times. If they push up to the surface come in upwind of them and drift into them casting and retrieving through them on a steady retrieve.

We used to catch them in the tailrace below Pickwick Dam in SW TN back in the day. You pull up right into the edge of the boils below the powerhouse. Huge current. We had one guy driver the boat while the other fished. Used cut shad as bait with 3-4 oz sinkers or huge hair jigs. It was a lot like fishing offshore. There are 20-40lb fish in the tailraces. Once you hooked up, the driver would let the boat be carried out of the boils and downstream while you landed the fish. Rinse, repeat. Good times.

Smith Lake in AL. Used shad to catch them. Fight like monsters

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Indian Creek

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At Pickwick?

had a buddy with a house on lake claiborne, we trolled and caught a few by the dam one evening using 15' divers with a tailer

the next evening we went out with the boat to troll again and I was on a jetski to troll
I brought a top water for the hell of it
whole bunch of stuff starting hitting the surface and I just threw that topwater in there and had 5 or 6 hookups in consecutive casts with 5-6lb stripers

good eaten fish

Used to catch them at Toledo Bend or Millwood in Arkansas. Millwood used to be one of the hottest bass fishing lakes in the country.

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landlocked stripers

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This is what I am talking about.

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Indian Creek




At Pickwick?

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No, here in Central Louisiana

Will you have a boat?

I fish Lanier.

It's getting pretty warm here so the fish are starting to dive. Good news is that they are starting to school. Best bet, live bluebacks under a sinker (free line 1 additional too).

See this link too.

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Will you have a boat?

I fish Lanier.

It's getting pretty warm here so the fish are starting to dive. Good news is that they are starting to school. Best bet, live bluebacks under a sinker (free line 1 additional too).

See this link too.

















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