Whats Your Favorite Striper Lure

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I haven't ever really gone after stripers so my question is . What is your favorite lure for the big guys. I think I will try it this year. Before I do I'd like a general Idea as to what is most effective. Thanks in advance for any comments.

[FishinCricket]

twenty dollar bills work well, hundreds work better...

Oh, you said stripers!

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Had me for a minute. I did misspell that once on another site . Don't think I have lived that down yet. WHEW!

[taxidermist]

At this time seems, live bait is working very well on Norfork. But sometimes artificial work well too.

You might want to look at the Lake Norfork Striper club for ideas.

http://www.norforkstripers.org/

[West Fork Jason]

You forgot streamers...

4/0 diachi,

starting from bottom of fly working towards the top-

white Icelandic arctic sheep wool

flashabou

silver/black flash

black northern bucktail b/c southern bucktail is too small

and little black dot is a boobie area feather from a road kill northern flicker. (one each side of streamer of course).

Don't forget the yellow eyes!!!

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By Golly, I don't think I've seen any of those style or head around. Biggest striper spot around me is on the other side of Sand Springs OK. If you made it yourself . You did a bang up good job.

[ozarkstripers.com]

most consistant on norfork and bullshoals has been storm swim bait. Trout colored on bullshoals and shad colored on Norfork. Use 4-6 inchers in spring and early summer and 8-10 inchers in late summer and early fall. But if you can catch shad it is the best all around. If you can not catch shad, large shiners work well. Either free line the live baits or balloon them. I know a lot of people also use long bombers and jerk baits after dark thrown towards main lake points after dark.

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I'm going to need a bigger reel . Going to make a mold for the big swim baits . I won't be able to do the real fancy colors . I checked out your suggestions and I can get in the ball park of some of the plastics . Worst case situation I'll stop in at Woody's Bait in Sand Springs buy some . Shad around here is No problem there are millions. If you do your own lures throw out some pics . Jason did a wicked job on his. My wife wanted a pair of ear rings like them . I told her only if I held her by the feet and worked her back and forth in the water. The bump dosen't hurt as much now when I comb my hair.