Striper

[exiledguide]

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.

I fished for them on Lake Catherine starting every November when I lived in Arkansas. They would move up lake to Carpenter dam along with the walleye within a day or two after the first Rainbow stocking. I never landed one over Ten pounds and I lost bigger ones but I doubt they would have went more than 15 lbs. Very seldom did any one down there catch anything over 20 lbs. One guy caught one around 50 lbs according to The Arkansas Democrat Gazzete And the year before a guy caught a 17.6 lb Walleye both were throwing crakbaits for Largemouth as close to the dam as you could legally fish.

[taxidermist]

You do need to check the tongues of the fish, Ar, stoked some stripers two years ago, so the small ones may be stripers and not whites.

[ozarkstripers.com]

Been catching a lot of big stripers lately What do you get for mounting a 40-50 pound striper?

[emjay]

I'm surprised you are still puling some in ozarkstriper. I went to your website and those are some nice catches. Might have to go down and try once more.

[taxidermist]

Fishng can be good this time of year, I hear the fish are up in the upper end of Norfork Lake.