Possible Release Of Stripers In Table Rock Today

[Bigmo]

My UPS guy told me today they released stripers, fingerlings I would imagine in the lake today. Has anyone heard that rumor or know if it is true or not? He said Table Rock wants to compete with Beaver in the future tournament wise. Just wondering.

[Bigmo]

I just found out he was wrong about TR, MDC plans to release 16,000 fingerlings on the Missouri side of Bull Shoals later this summer.

[Sam]

Tablerock doesn't need stripers, in my opinion. Those 18" white bass have plenty of shoulders on 'em.

I just got back from the Mill Creek area where I was trolling a Roostertail around the windy banks and chasing and casting to boils when the whites would blow up. Good golly - after catching the first three of those monsters I switched from a medium/light spinning pole to a medium/heavy with a bigger reel to catch the rest. Don't know that I've ever had to do that before, but I just couldn't handle them.

The black bass were going crazy on the windblown banks, too - smallmouths, largemouths, and K's. Don't know what a 21 1/4" largemouth would weigh, but I caught one on a Roostertail while still using that light rod - and THAT doesn't even happen every year for me. She would have been a little longer, but was just off the nest and had a worn-down tail.

All three kinds of black bass went back in the lake, white bass, goggleyes, two big bluegills, and one big crappie came home with me. A good trip.

[Feathers and Fins]

TR doesn't need stripers its nice being able to fish her and not have them on my mind. Now she does have some that came visiting from Beaver but not many. Though it would be funny to watch what happens to the white river arm if they did stock them.

I could hear the Jaws music now... As you are sitting enjoying a quiet morning of trout fishing and all of the sudden trout start grey hounding out of the water and giant flashes of silver coming up all around them lol.

[Champ188]

MDC has been on the cutting edge of black bass management since the 1980s, when it was among the first such agencies in the country to introduce length limits. Unlike their neighbors to the south, the Missouri boys have far more sense than to wreck a world-class fishery by introducing a non-native, forage-depleting creature that God intended to be in the ocean.

[Phil Lilley]

MDC and AFG are both trying to rid TR of stripers... they come over Beaver Dam when they open their flood gates.

[huntest]

what Champ said

[Wayne SW/MO]

I'm glad to hear they're putting some in BS. I suspected something might be up when they put a 20" length limit on a fish that didn't exist.

I do take exception to the old worry about stripers hurting a bass fishery. If anything was going to hurt it from the temperate family it would be the white bass. I would like to see some research from other lakes that were hurt by the introduction? I don't think many blacks cruse the mid lake and feed on 12" shad.

[Feathers and Fins]

How much you want Wayne? There is volume after volume of it and NONE shows they harm the fishery

http://etd.auburn.edu/etd/handle/10415/1096

[Wayne SW/MO]

How much you want Wayne? There is volume after volume of it and NONE shows they harm the fishery

http://etd.auburn.edu/etd/handle/10415/1096

I know, I want to see what is the basis for the objections that keep popping up.

I fished Texoma, a world class also, before, during, and after establishment of stripers. There was some harm to the sand bass population and that was probably from them being in the wrong place and stripers having no preference between shad and sandies. The lake did need a change in blacks because of the aging of the lake and smallies were introduced. The stripers had some problem with not having enough food because of their dependence on shad, but never heard of any conflicts between the two.

There is some, not a lot, of research that shows some improvement. The problem with doing research is that the big gizzards harm the smaller baitfish population and trying to tie the research together is said to hard to do.