Missouri Striper Record Broke

[Phil Lilley]

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<p>An OzarkAnglers Exclusive</p>

<p>A Fordland man may have landed a new Missouri record striper, he reported on the Ozarkanglers.com forum this weekend.</p>

<p> James Cunningham and his brothers knew there were big stripers below Powersite Dam on upper Bull Shoals Lake, he said. They had caught them before, traveling to the fishing spot several times this summer. Some had weighed up to 40 pounds, and even on Friday night that he hooked the lunker, they had two fish weighing more than 40 pounds already in the boat.</p>

<p>They were casting and retreiving big swim baits, knowing that the stripers eat mainly trout this time of year. The trout school up near Powersite Dam because the water flowing from Lake Taneycomo is colder than the rest of the lake.</p>

<p>It was about 1 a.m. early Saturday morning when the huge striper took the bait. Cunningham said it took him about 20 minutes to land her. After it tipped the scale in their boat at more than 60 pounds, the brothers scrambled to find a way to keep it fresh, knowing it couldn't be officially weighed until regular hours at the Shepherd of the Hills Hatchery in Branson. Since they didn't have a live well large enough for the whopper (not many fishermen do), they wetted and wrapped the big striper in rags and clothes to keep it from losing water weight.</p>

<p>The official weight at thte hatchery was 60.55 pounds. It was 47 inches long and it's girth was 37 inches. James is now awaiting the official announcement from the Missouri Department of Conservation that it is a new state record.</p>

<p>The old state record weighed 58 pounds, 10 ounces, and was caught by John West on July 8, 2010, on Bull Shoals.</p>

[tfdsr]

How could the old record have been set on July8,2011 when today is June27,2011

[Phil Lilley]

Corrected.

Thanks for pointing it out.

[Guest]

Arkansas and Missouri have both striper records from trout tailwaters.

Thats cool that he was using a swimbait

[eric1978]

A Fordland man may have landed a new Missouri record stripper

Yikes. He should have himself checked out.

Look at the gut on that fish. Wow.

[DOITLOOKIT]

<p><img src="http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/images/2011/striper-state-record-2011-500.jpg" width="500" height="442"></p>

<p>An OzarkAnglers Exclusive</p>

<p>A Fordland man may have landed a new Missouri record stripper, he reported on the Ozarkanglers.com forum this weekend.</p>

<p> James Cunningham and his brothers knew there were big stripers below Powersite Dam on upper Bull Shoals Lake, he said. They had caught them before, traveling to the fishing spot several times this summer. Some had weighed up to 40 pounds, and even on Friday night that he hooked the lunker, they had two fish weighing more than 40 pounds already in the boat.</p>

<p>They were casting and retreiving big swim baits, knowing that the stripers eat mainly trout this time of year. The trout school up near Powersite Dam because the water flowing from Lake Taneycomo is colder than the rest of the lake.</p>

<p>It was about 1 a.m. early Saturday morning when the huge striper took the bait. Cunningham said it took him about 20 minutes to land her. After it tipped the scale in their boat at more than 60 pounds, the brothers scrambled to find a way to keep it fresh, knowing it couldn't be officially weighed until regular hours at the Shepherd of the Hills Hatchery in Branson. Since they didn't have a live well large enough for the whopper (not many fishermen do), they wetted and wrapped the big striper in rags and clothes to keep it from losing water weight.</p>

<p>The official weight at thte hatchery was 60.55 pounds. It was 47 inches long and it's girth was 37 inches. James is now awaiting the official announcement from the Missouri Department of Conservation that it is a new state record.</p>

<p>The old state record weighed 58 pounds, 10 ounces, and was caught by John West on July 8, 2010, on Bull Shoals.</p>

Thanks Phil for providing this. Beautiful fish. Good to see young kids fishing and enjoying themselves!!!

[Trout Commander]

A Fordland man may have landed a new Missouri record stripper, he reported on the Ozarkanglers.com forum this weekend.

Hey bub, just so you know this place is supposed to be PG13. If this thread gets much worse some one is liable to shut it down with a red X.

[Quillback]

Wow a stripper and a state recoed striper all in one night! That what I call living!

But, seriously, that is one pig of a fish.

[Phil Lilley]

Hey bub, just so you know this place is supposed to be PG13. If this thread gets much worse some one is liable to shut it down with a red X.

Always a mistake.. and my wife even edited it!

[emjay]

I bet the guy that broke it last year is in agony. Was down there the other day but man, that water is NOT going down for a long time. Lot of people fishing, not alot catching.