Big Fish On The Rock.

[Martin]

Wasn't that big striper caught below Powersite a new Missouri record? And was Jeff's fish caught in Ark or Mo...? I'm with rps. When they get that big, they are true monsters. lol

[Feathers and Fins]

If you look at most of the Giant Stripers caught in freshwater they are caught in or near waters that get trout stockings, There are exceptions but to those there is a super supply of food in the water. I have been on the rock to know the gizzard shad population is unreal and the lake could benifit from Stripers in it, but doubt they will stock it because the beast would find there way up the white and arond roaring river and what they can and do, do to trout is unreal. I actually watched stripers waiting on the trout stocking truck and the craziest I ever saw was one of them actually try shooting up the trucks dump stream to get trout.

[dtrs5kprs]

I know some feeding on trout occurs, and the trout are farther down lake than many realize. When they generate from Beaver the cold goes right on by Holiday Island in the bottom of the main channel. In the winter trout wander down from Roaring River as well.

The ones who feed heavy on the trout, though, are the stripers washed through Beaver dam. This last winter a Holiday Island resident caught a 31 pound striper in the Beaver tailwaters. The Arkansas state record was caught by Jeff Fletcher in the Beaver tailwaters. There are not many, but they feed hard on the stockers.

Know of one trout caught around Oswalt Bluff in the last two weeks. Lake is deep and cold enough to surprise you. Hard to imagine enough to be a food supply, but am sure they get utilized on occasion.

[Tfsh4bass]

I caught a rainbow on a jerkbait around Cow Creek a few years ago and another on a wiggle wart around Baxter. My buddy caught one on a deep little N around point 7. Few and far between but some make it down lake. Fishing on Table Rock is great along with Norfork and Bull Shoals plus Beaver has been producing some decent bass...great to see and one of the many reasons I have stayed in the area for over 40 years.

[Quillback]

Ya, I don't know where I heard it. I should have asked Jeff. He and Lane Shoemaker fished a tournament I was in last year and I forgot to ask.

There was what could have been an AR record striper caught in Bull, but the fellow that weighed it did not weigh it on a certified scale and no AGFC employee was there to witness the weight, so it was DQ'd. They did finally weigh it a day or so later on a certified scale and with an AGFC witness, but by that time it had lost weight and weighed less than the record. I read this in a write-up in the AR Dem-Gazette a couple of weeks ago, so I apologize if the details are a little sketchy.