White River - Dam To Bertrand Access

[1969Larson]

I guess I should have posted this in the Beaver Tailwaters forum, but i think most folks there don't fish the White River for stripers.

I Floated from the Dam to Betrand Access in a canoe this weekend. Caught a limit of small keeper rainbows for dinner fairly quickly and then I was surprised to see tons of walleye - big ones too, and even a pack or two of stripers cruising through the deeper water just before Parker Bottoms. Since this is still the single barbless hook area, I didn't really have anything to throw at them. Anyone ever have luck catching stripers or walleye through here? What lure did you use? I was thinking one of those giant rainbow trout swimbaits with one giant hook could work... flatten the barb and it would be legal. Also, it was neat for my son to get really close to several gigantic spoonbills in the clear water.

[Stump bumper]

I have never fished that far down but have hooked some nice hybrids using the stunned shad floating on top the water down near Houseman's, they are always good size whites to be caught in the river also.

Surprised there were spoonbills this time of year.

[1969Larson]

Yeah, I was wondering if the huge numbers of walleye and spoonbills are trapped there since just a few hundred yards downstream there are shoals that you have to drag a canoe over or if they come and go during generation.