First Striper Without A Guide

[FlyfishinOK]

I was over a deep hole in my kayak and bringing a smaller 18" striper to hand. As I leaned over prepairing to lip him a 25+ lbr followed him up and side swiped him while he was about a foot under the surface. My heart rate increased dramatically. Needless to say I didn't mess around with taking a pic of the smaller one. I wanted my bait back in the water.

[Nick Williams]

Did you stay south of Marval? How busy was it there? It was packed farther up the river though, lots of asians too. I didn't get to chase and Stripers, but I had the fly and rod ready!

That's awesome though, those are the fish that we only get to see that keep us going back! What were you throwing?

[mchunter]

Sounds like you did good! Congratulations on those 7lbers! I hope to get down there this Saturday for some trout. Then next week, I'm off to Upper Taneycomo for some more trout fishing. Good luck.

[OKFlyFisher44]

Glad to see that some of you guys are having some luck on the striper bite! We havent really had much of a chance to get out and chase them this year sadly like in years past. We have hit the Arkansas River once and half-heartedly fished for them last night on the LIR at the tail end of our float.

[FlyfishinOK]

Not sure if this link will work? One of the striper I caught above Marvel's last Saturday.

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[mchunter]

Nice fish! I bet that kayaking is a fun way to do it. I've never fished that way before.

[mchunter]

Got to go down Saturday from daylight to about 11:00 am with a buddy of mine who had never been before. I ended up catching 10 trout spinfishing with marabou jigs. He caught a couple doing the same. Nothing of any real size. There doesn't seem to be very many fish in there compared to a couple months ago. Makes me wonder just how much they really stock it during the summer? All in all had a good time though! Seen what had to be a really nice striper boil a couple times early in the morning.