Stripers are on fire. We boated 28 fish today all on downrrods at 25-30 ft. depths. Our largest fish today was around 14 pounds. Buddy Don Brown boated two big fish over 20 pounds dragging gizzard shad. Again we saw some huge schools of fish located in the creeks on the North end of Lanier. Seemed like the fish today were holding on a 25 -40 foot bottom. I have heard some good reports on the topwater action on the cloudy day’s. My buddy had good luck this past Thursday waking smokey joe cordel redfins on main lake points. Topwater has’nt really been happening on the bright sunny day’s. Look for the best top action to occur with overcast skies.
Fished a half day charter today and had some great striper action. Today the fish changed up a little switching from the flatlines last week to all down rod action today. We boated 22 fish with the largest weighing around 15 pounds, all downroding herring closed to the bottom in 25-35 feet of water. We saw some really big schools today. The hot weather is stacking them up.We will be out all this week and will report back soon.
I’ve boated a bunch of MONSTER STRIPERS this summer including these 3.
The bite is still on and I expect to catch some more giants so don’t miss out! Book your trip today!!
If you want to see more of these MONSTER STRIPERS, check out this VIDEO….
The last few days the striper fishing has been excellent. Yesterday on a half day charter we boated 11 stripers up to 18 pounds. That 18 pounder had another striper follow it all the way up to the boat that was probably in the mid 30’s. That following action is a good sign which usually means the fish are starting to stack up in large schools. All our fish hit flatlined herring and down rods at about 20 ft. deep.
Today We boated 9 stripers with the largest weighing 32 pounds. The 32 came on a flatline. Check out the photos. I believe the next few weeks the stripers will really turn it on, the water temp. today was 75 and with the warmer weather forcasted should get into the 80’s by next week. This will continue to get em stacked up in bigger schools as they come down the river on their migration back to the lower lake. Don’t miss out on this action. I will be out next week and will report back then.
Fishing today was very good for striper and spotted bass. The fish today ran a little small but we managed to boat 9 stripers flatlining bluebacks around main lake points on the south end of the lake. We are catching a mix of huge spots and stripers. I always like to keep a guy in the front of the boat this time of year casting a topwater or today a weightlless zoom super fluke. Water temp today was 70 degrees which is perfect for the topwater action. The next 5-6 weeks we should see this top action continue and get even better. I don’t think we have seen the topwater action peek yet. So don’t miss out. Will be out the rest of the week and will report back soon.
Fishing still good for stripers. Today we boated 9 stripers up to around 10 pounds flatlining herring. We hooked up 3 of our 9 on zoom ice flukes on 1/4 ounce lead heads. Spots are also hitting the flukes quite well. We caught around 10 spots up to 3 pounds casting the flukes up on shallow wind blown flats. From what Ive seen with the stripers I believe they can be taken on u-rigs also. I am seeing the fish on sonar hugging the bottom on main lake points in 10-15 feet of water and that is the perfect depths to take them with a light weight urig trolled close to the bottom especially on the windy day’s.Some topwater action is going on also using The big redfins and zara-spooks. Will be out tomorrow and will report back then.
Went out today on half day charter dodging the storms and had fairly good day. We boated 7 stripers up to 12 pounds. We saw a good bit of surface action , stripers and spots chasing bait on the surface. Five of our stripers were caught flatlining bluebacks and the other two we caught casting weightless zoom superflukes. We also caught quite a few nice spotted bass. I would say the topwater action is on. The water temp. is holding around the 68-70 degree mark which triggers the top action. Will be out next week and will report back soon.
Fishing for stripers was great today. We boated 12 fish on half day charter with our largest fish weighing around 16 pounds. Most all our fish were in the 7-12 pound range. Caught them again today fishing points with flatlined bluebacks on the North end of the lake. This pattern will continue into June but the fish will slowly start migrating back down the lake as water temps rise. We caught quite a few large spotted bass also on the bluebacks. Will be fishing tomorrow and will report back.
Striper fishing is getting better every day. Today I had a half day charter with Will Spurlock, we boated 7 stripers with the biggest one weighing about 16 pounds. All our fish hit bluebacks on flatlines around main lake points on the North end of Lanier. We are now starting to graph schools of stripers as they come back down the river from the spring spawning run they will continue to pack up in larger schools. We caught quite a few nice spotted bass also which is a sign they are all coming off the bed. Topwater action is just around the corner. We have been catching a few big spots on zara spooks. Seemed like the key to catching stripers today was to keep the boat in 10-15 ft. of water as we drug our baits around and over the points. Will be out the rest of the week and will report back soon.
The striper action is finally starting to heat up. Last week the action got quite a bit more consistent. The water temp is finally getting right which is around 70 degrees. We took fish last week mainly on the north end of Lanier flatlining bluebacks on main points in the major creeks. I am starting to see fish bunch up of the sonar. For awhile there we were not graphing anything on the sonar. It gives your confidence a boost when you know they are there (seeing them on the sonar). There were a good number of fish boated last week in the 20 pound range and a few reports of some 30’s being caught. The topwater action should kick in soon if the temps stay around the 70 degree mark. The best topwater action is usually on the overcast day’s so plan your topwater trips around overcast rainy day’s if you can. The best topwater baits are the old Redfin in the smoky joe pattern if you have overcast conditions and the chrome blue back if it’s sunny.
Bass fishing has been fantastic. While dragging live bait for the stripers, I have had my customers throwing small white ice flukes on 1/4 ounce lead heads and tearing up the spots.
Crappie action has been slow but a few fish are still being caught around super shallow boat docks. I won’t be after the crappie now since striper action has picked up. I will be out all this week and will report back soon.
