Stripers Below Lake Sequoyah?

[jdelow77]

Someone told me , that hybrids and stripers run white river to the spillway below sequoyah, is there any truth to this???? i saw a picture of a nice hybrid (10 +)

the guy had on his phone, he told he caught it in January .... has anyone fished down there when its this cold???

[bobber]

you bet, when it happens the sides of the road are full of car and trucks... i have seen walleye come out of there to.... the tell tail sign is all the old small V and flat bottoms boats pop back out

[jdelow77]

you bet, when it happens the sides of the road are full of car and trucks... i have seen walleye come out of there to.... the tell tail sign is all the old small V and flat bottoms boats pop back out

This guy told me between December and February ...i know about the spring run....im just curious if they do it in the winter...

[bobber]

yes WINTER TIME FISHING!....it should be good to start scouting it in the next few weekends....>>> that window is a pretty small time period, back in the day ! we would pick up big fat crappie (the black slab's), whites ,hybrid's, and start catching striper ....... but it's all about the schools of shad!! ...... then it rains and everything goes muddy, and it's all over... oh you pick up some here, and there. but it's not like one MYSTERY fish for every cast!! in water, that for the most part is very shallow . 3 to 4 foot on hot'n tots , or roadrunner jigs, white with a red streak with a white tail and some times even a trailer hook. it's to shallow to work jigging spoons spooks worked well on dead still water early or late into the night. .........they posted about them up in the prairie creek and coose. it's just a matter of time with weather, and water temps. "there come'n up stream! "

[jdelow77]

yes WINTER TIME FISHING!....it should be good to start scouting it in the next few weekends....>>> that window is a pretty small time period, back in the day ! we would pick up big fat crappie (the black slab's), whites ,hybrid's, and start catching striper ....... but it's all about the schools of shad!! ...... then it rains and everything goes muddy, and it's all over... oh you pick up some here, and there. but it's not like one MYSTERY fish for every cast!! in water, that for the most part is very shallow . 3 to 4 foot on hot'n tots , or roadrunner jigs, white with a red streak with a white tail and some times even a trailer hook. it's to shallow to work jigging spoons spooks worked well on dead still water early or late into the night. .........they posted about them up in the prairie creek and coose. it's just a matter of time with weather, and water temps. "there come'n up stream! "

hmmm its must be a tight lipped secret..ive never heard of this until now....i might try to look at the white next weekend...will all this rain affect them?? should i put in at twin bridges and motor up??? thanks for all the input!!

[bobber]

what are you motoring in?? ....( you can get in way up above that by the the city sewer plant but it's creeky ...not a river). but i would go down stream from twin bridges about two miles or half a mile above Neal's bluff. the river get pretty narrow.... and this area, the river bottom gets shallow and the fish are also squeezed .. makes it much faster to test the waters .... the spill way part is all the fish you miss running up stream after the shad.. ... and no, light rain won't matter. the dark Grey sky it to your advantage too. as i came home i stopped at blue spring bridge and the water was dead still, and nothing surfacing , and just before dark i was on the deck looking and only saw a few small schools working the war eagle arm so it's still a bit early but the striper guides have been here for a few weeks so yes you might hit on some now?

[Bill Butts]

Hello Bobber,

Could you tell me more about "praire creek and coose" you spoke about?

I couldn't get anything to come up with a Google search.

The run upriver from Twin Bridges would be very challenging even in a jet boat unless the flow was considerably high from rain, don't you think?

Thanks for your follow-up.

Bill

[bobber]

if you google map hwy 12 in rogers arkansas and follow it to the lake, you'll see an island, and coose is the cove on the other side of the lake it is on the northern side of that island.... that part of the the lake is big water, and below (south) the hwy 12 bridge, the lake moves to more of a river setting ....prairie creek is a marina northwest of that bridge it has a large cove that runs back behind it and is wind protected some what ! .....THAT HELP?

[bobber]

the lake is backed up, and the water in this area is about 3 ft higher than normal making it better to navigate

[jdelow77]

Thanks bobber!!! you have been very helpful....got a Cajun maverick( 17 foot) ...i might just put in at the old white river bridge and motor up from there..