Hello everyone. I live across from the praire creek marina. I have been reading your reports and thought I would add my own and hope you continue to do the same. I enjoy fishing for stripers but also fish for bass. I have only been fishing off a boat for the last couple of years so I am still learning the lake. Any tips and help would be apreciated.
Me and a couple of friends launched at Monte Ne on Thanksgiving looking for stripers at 3pm. I marked plenty of shad balls and stripers from horse shoe bend to edens bluff. I stayed till 7:30pm with no luck. I tried super spooks, red fins, 1oz rattle traps in different colors, spoons, cranks, swimbaits, chuggers, and misc other baits. I never did see any top water activity.
I went out this afternoon at 3:45pm from praire creek looking for some top water action with no luck. I fished into the coves and since I was not having any luck decided to go down to the 12 bridge. I did not see any top water activity nor did I see any striper guides. I try to keep an eye out for guides. I decided to wrap things up at 6pm. Maybe sunday Ill go down and launch at hickory creek and go down to war eagle.