Nice Night For A Boat Ride

[Feathers and Fins]

Guides are sneaky people they are out at night but dang hard to spot in the dark lol... If you are going to pursue stripers you have to be like the fish and be mobile! It is not uncommon to put 30 miles on the boat in a day chasing them.

[nathanhooper]

Nathan come the end of september early October Stripers get super stupid and much easier to find PRAIRIE CREEK simple as that. And if the shad are in the back of the creek they are even stupider simply launch at PC at 3pm go to back of creek and catch bait then go to the first doc past Old PC dirt ramp and drift to the back of the creek.

They stick around there till the end of Dec and usually some there all through winter, just beware geese tend to fall from the sky durring the same time for some non-toxic reasons

I'll keep it in mind. Although, when the cool air starts to blow my mind and body switch into hunting mode and fishing mode is put at bay. I have to say, I like fishing a lot more than I had ever imagined I would, but hunting fills that certain spot that fishing can't even begin to touch. When you can literally get completely away from everything and just sit and wait for the game to come to you.

Of course, I guess that people catfish like that, but its still not the same. I wont pass up a good fishing trip though, so I'll for sure think about it come that time.

[nathanhooper]

Guides are sneaky people they are out at night but dang hard to spot in the dark lol... If you are going to pursue stripers you have to be like the fish and be mobile! It is not uncommon to put 30 miles on the boat in a day chasing them.

Oh wow. I never would have thought that much. That for sure explains a lot. I put a few miles on trolling, but no where near 30 I bet.

See, its still having a hard time sinking in my head. Trying to wrap my mind around chasing them as a specific target. Hopefully it will settle in soon. Might need to get a bigger gas tank in the mean time...

[bfishn]

... It is not uncommon to put 30 miles on the boat in a day chasing them.

I can't remember what lake it was (not Beaver), but I read a radio-tracking study years ago that had the stripers at the dam at dawn, 30 (river) miles uplake by early PM, and back at the dam by sunset. That was a daily occurence all summer.

[Feathers and Fins]

I'll keep it in mind. Although, when the cool air starts to blow my mind and body switch into hunting mode and fishing mode is put at bay. I have to say, I like fishing a lot more than I had ever imagined I would, but hunting fills that certain spot that fishing can't even begin to touch. When you can literally get completely away from everything and just sit and wait for the game to come to you.

Of course, I guess that people catfish like that, but its still not the same. I wont pass up a good fishing trip though, so I'll for sure think about it come that time.

HUNTING YOU SAY??????????? How about hunting and fishing combines!

What could possibly be better than cast n blasting

[Quillback]

I can't remember what lake it was (not Beaver), but I read a radio-tracking study years ago that had the stripers at the dam at dawn, 30 (river) miles uplake by early PM, and back at the dam by sunset. That was a daily occurence all summer.

I've read similar stuff, and, in general, during the summer after the thermocline forms, the stripers will be at the dam end of the lake. Not that I'm a striper expert by any means, but you have to start somewhere. I'd also take F&F's advice, do a little scouting, see if you can spot some guides, find that general area where they'e fishing.

[Feathers and Fins]

Bf, they do move around much more in a lake with cooler temps, in beaver however they hang at the dam durring summer or within 6 miles of it for the most part. Interesting subject you brought up. There is a well documentd case of a striper being tagged below Tenkiller and 3 days later captured in the Gulf of mexico. The move a lot depending on the water they are in.

[nathanhooper]

Show off....lol

[nathanhooper]

Ok, so lets get down to some maybe/maybe not silly questions.

Is there just one big ole group of these suckers, and they split up into smaller groups within the bigger group?

I read the stocking reports, and while I know that they do not all survive, I believe that there are more than 200,000 stripers stocked each year.

That might not seem like a lot, and maybe its not, but that would be one heck of a school. So I assume that they do not all run together or at least real close together.

However, when you say they are(for the most part) within 6 miles of the dam, that would make me think that you would see significant signs of them swimming around unless they are all schooled up in a couple hundred yard area of each other and I just happen to be one of those fisherman who am always in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Is what I am saying making any sense? Sometimes I fail to see the bigger picture when I try to envision things in my head.

[nathanhooper]

6 miles or so, by my rough calculation, would put the outer reaches near point five and to the back of Indian Creek. Am I getting close?