Stripers How Too Beaver Helpful

[Feathers and Fins]

[wc1063]

It's good talkin with you and thank you for the post!!

[navery]

Amazing info. that is really awesome of you to help newbies like me with all that knowledge. i am from the springfield area and we got into some big stripers at powersite this summer with all the high water. was just wondering after reading your post if you think they will still be aroundor will have pushed back down to the main lake. want to try to get another one before years end and thought since the ones in beaver push to the river as it gets colder that maybe the ones in bull shoals might do the same and push towards powersite. any help is greatly appreciated. and also, im assuming you guide with all your know how. if you do send me a message. would be interested in booking a trip with ya.

[Feathers and Fins]

I learned from a few guides but just called them friends and learned from sport boat operators. Most of the Sport Boat guys who taught me so much did it because they loved it "certainly not the money lol" One of the old timers said something to me that will always stick in my mind. " When you pass on the knowledge I have taught you then even when im gone I will still be living" That has always stuck in my mind and something I actually like to think will carry on good men who taught a very big pest of a kid alot about fishing.

I learned seeing the smiles of people when they catch a fish because of the old men who taught me and my knowledge is worth more than all the money in the world. Its funny, it does not matter if its a kid or old man the smile is alwys the same and always worth millions of dollars. I will be happy to always help people and show people what I can and will always do it for one price and thats a smile!

Now as to Powersite. Though I have not fished it myself, It would not suprise me especially if Trout are present! Lets face it a trout is a stripers favorite food. If Powersite is a overflow spillway and not a bottom out run then I would be all over that place when its spilling. Stripers Love turbid water, They will hang out not in the turbid area but in the eddies near it and even under the turbid area just waiting for stunned prey to come over. This would be a place i would be throwing Flies and Bucktails with live bait down near the bottom.

Give me some info on how powersite flows and I should be able to pattern it pretty easy for you. As I said stripers are the Same at least landlocked are and very patternable.

[1969Larson]

F&F, How's this for a smile?! Thanks for the insight! We were able to find this guy on topwater from the bank in the very back of Prairie Creek yesterday evening. First striper ever... 40-inches! From shore! Whooop!

[wc1063]

Congrats, that's one good looking fish!

[Feathers and Fins]

Thats a Good one without a doubt. Glad you got her.

[navery]

hope i didntupset you, theres not many people out there like you willing to help just b/c you enjoy to. i just dont want to come across wanting something for nothing. since we hooked into them earlier this year i have been trying to learn all i can about feeding and behavioral patterns as to be better at finding and catching them like you. it is just tough to find information on them as you said they are naturally a salt water fish, so i am having problems learning about them in resevoirs. just wanting to learn and have been raised in a manner of giving back to those who have given to us. not knowing you the only thing i could offer in exchange for knowledge is what alot of people want and thats$ do you have any advice on literature or places to learn how to become more efficient at catching them. i have read your 101 class through several times and cannot wait to try it after this cold spell pushes through. figured this weather would shut them down and it being over an hour one way from springfield thought it would be better at risking the fuel on better weather but dont know if that is accurate as i dont know that much about their behavior.

as for powersite, it is a bottom run with floodgates on top for excess high water. it was really pouring over the top when we caught those 40's this summer. thats why we were lucky enough to catch them not knowing anything about them. they were just there feeding like crazy and just happened to hit our bait. now that the water is down, they will probably run out the bottom instead over the top. i just wasnt sure about them and shallow water as it is the start of bull shoals and isnt very deep. but then i read about how shallow you got into them in prairie creek, so im just confused on where to start. again all help is greatly appreciated and i am willing to give back any way i can in return.

thanks again

nick

[Feathers and Fins]

Not upset one bit so dont think about it.

Ok Bottom run, that helps a little. But you will need a good swift current. More than likely the stripers will be sitting down current some distance from the dam unless its generating. I would launch and close to Powersite as possible then troll down current about 3 miles with planers set out to the within yard of the bank and one directly behind the boat and one weighted straight down. Then back up toward the dam.

If you know when they will generate I would time it so I launched 3 hours before generation head down current so i would be at the 2 mile mark when they generated, Keep going untill yoiu notice the current change and then turn and head back up to powersite and fish it. Stripers will move up when they start generating and feeding. You should get into them on the way up and get into the big ones when you arrive.

Not knowing the area im going off whats worked in similar looking areas as all i had to view it was google earth.

This weekend Beaver should be good if no more weather comes in. Going to be hard to say if they will be upriver or not so if you come to beaver be ready to move alot.

[J-Doc]

F&F, How's this for a smile?! Thanks for the insight! We were able to find this guy on topwater from the bank in the very back of Prairie Creek yesterday evening. First striper ever... 40-inches! From shore! Whooop!

Thats incredible.......a 40" striper from the bank! Hahahahaha!

I've seen so many striper guides running around on the lake over the years and you caught that big fella from the bank. I'm jealous!

F&F....

This thread contains incredible information and wow what detail! Thank you for your time, sharing your experience, and for all of the detail. This should be a sticky at the top of the forum!