Stripers in Neosho River

[kelly]

Just returned from a trip to the Chetopa Ks dam on the Neosho river. My dad and I caught about seventy fish including hybrids and stripers (two). I had never caught a striper before let alone seen them in the Neosho. They weighed about four pounds each and my dad caught one the next day that went five even.

I also caught an eight pound flathead on my light tackle. Mostly we caught whites and hybrids with some drum mixed in, one went six pounds.

We stood next to the dam and cast paralell to it and tried to stay in the small boils. It seems that shiney spoons worked the best but white jigs were very good also.

Like I said I had never seen stripers in the Neosho before but it seem that they are there now. Does anyone know, will there be a ton of them now?

Kelly

[Phil Lilley]

I saw your post yesterday... I've never heard of them in Grand Lake myself only hybrids. Drove over the Neosho yesterday near Oswego- looked very low.

Sorry I missed you this past weekend Kelly. Was hoping to catch you at Leland's Friday but you were out on a run.

[kelly]

If you caught me there on Friday you would be lucky, how was the reunion? I have never attended one of my own.

The water in the Neosho is very low but I have seen it lower. I am amazed that there are whites and hybrids there still. I have caught them as early as Feb but usually no later that the first of June.

It is the stripers that have me excited. If there are five pounders there already, how long before ten pounders are common?

Kelly

[Rusty]

Kelly, Did you, by any chance, take any photo's of the Striper's?

[kelly]

Yes I took a picture with my camera phone... but in my haste I did not save it so it is a cyberfish now.

My dad and I went again today. I caught over a hundred fish mostly drum and whites, all were small with one nice channel cat. There were a few biguns working the shad over pretty good but all in all I think it is about to end unless we get some water.

Kelly