Striped Bass Report June 9, 2010

by doug

Fishing these past few weeks remains good for striped bass. We are still catching fish downlining live bluebacks down 25-35 feet down. I am still fishing on the North end of the lake but other anglers have been starting to catch stripes below Browns Bridge. Umbrellas are producing fairly well on the days when stripers are finicky on the live bait. Last Friday I was having a lot of window shoppers on the herrring and changed over to trolling u rigs and caught 7 stripers real quick with the biggest one weighing around 18 pounds. Most of the fish now are ranging from 3-7 pounds with a few 10-13 pounders each day. Seems like the bigger fish are still hitting the weighted flatlines.  The fish should be making there way down the lake as the water temps continue to rise. Yesterday Laniers surface temp. was 81 degrees.

The spotted bass  are starting to stack up on main lake humps and points. We are catching quite a few nice size spotted bass while dragging live bait for the stripers. I have seen spots schooling in the early a.m. so keep a fluke or some type of topwater ready for the schooling spotted bass. I will be on the lake the rest of the week and will report back Friday.