Striper

[naru70]

Saw a guy with a 30# striper caught above swan creek

[Trav]

nice!!

[lonkm]

Bet he had FUN!!!

[emjay]

So it was caught in the creek? I've seen some get pulled out by the dam.

[naru70]

Somewhere above Swan creek.

[emjay]

Looks to me like people have been pulling them in for the last few weeks now. BIG ones at that. Heard the guys on boats were casting towards the dam with those Storm Kickin Minnows and were getting a few in. 10" in trout color looks to be what everyone is throwing.

[taxidermist]

KY3 had a lot of huge stripers on their website that came from Bull Shoals about a month ago. a lot in the mid 40 lb range. I have one hanging in the shop that was over 50lbs, Like skinning a volkswagon and carving the body for a volkswagon.

[Sam]

Some of our local stores here still have giant Bull Shoals stripers on the wall from the 1980's, when I guess they were quite the thing. I've fished upper Bull Shoals for crappie and white bass real often for 20 years now, and I've never got ahold of one - I think they're kinda like Bigfoot and the Easter Bunny. If I did ever get a big striper on it'd just break me off. If a 40 lb. striper fights in proportion to a 4 lb. white bass, and I assume they do, I'm not fishing with any tackle that could get one in.

[emjay]

I've fished upper Bull Shoals for crappie and white bass real often for 20 years now

Dang. I fished it for 2 months and was able to pull two in. One I kept, the other I released. Wait for next summer Sam, I'm sure you'll get one. Get out there by the dam and toss big baits. BTW mine were pulled in with 15lb and 17lb Yo-Zuri Hybrid line.

[Sam]

Dang. I fished it for 2 months and was able to pull two in. One I kept, the other I released. Wait for next summer Sam, I'm sure you'll get one. Get out there by the dam and toss big baits. BTW mine were pulled in with 15lb and 17lb Yo-Zuri Hybrid line.

That's the difference, I nearly always fish between Beaver Creek and a little ways into Arkansas. I hardly ever get up by the dam.

I've caught a few white bass that I thought might be small stripers. Anyway, they seemed more streamlined and the stripes were solid. I've never caught any above maximum white bass size though, so I'm not sure.