Stripers And Whites In Fall?

[Feathers and Fins]

Here try reading these.

Also as you specified Beaver Lake, go through the BL Forum and you will see a pattern as to where and when. This is coming on my favorite time of year, I have my cast nets both stretching right now and getting ready for use. Within 3 weeks I will be spending mornings looking for Gizzard Shad and the rest of the day hunting stripers and large walleye with the bait.

This is however the time to get out and start scouting locations, as the lake changes each year you want to locate the Gizzards now and then look just outside of where they are. I like to mark "driftlines" on my gps that will keep me away from trees and other break off points and snags so when the stripers do show up I know where I can maximize my ability to drift baits from surface to 15fow without worry of a snag.

[Ham]

On Toledo Bend, the White bass move up the Main river in the fall about November and December. A MASSIVE spawn occurs up the Sabine river starting in January and running thru March most years. I wish I knew more about how they behave in BSL prior to the spring fling, but I do not.

[Old plug]

The white bass on LOZ tend to stay out in the channel. They used to rise and chase shad out in that area it used to be exciting to chase the jumps. That only happens rarely anymore. I think large boats are forcing. them to change habit and feed deeper. I have always fished for the most part with spoons. I catch both whites and hybreds. 25 ft. I used to love to do that. You never know whst your going to find down there. For anyone who trolls. There most effective way to troll around here for whites this time of the year was to tie a jitterbug on your line and then abiut 3 ft of leader to the back hook with a small jig on it. I never did it but it used to catch a lot of white bass for the trollers.

[Feathers and Fins]

I called Tweety Bird today and due to my keeping the putty-tat away from him and me myself not making him in to a roast he passed on the information the Stripers are schooled up heavy between point 5 and 6 That bird is always reliable.

[podum]

I second the shallow wind blown flats on the reservoirs. I've done a lot of white bass fishing on LOZ, Truman, Smithville and Stockton during the last 5 years. The fall is the best season (starting about now through water temps dropping below 50). True statement: shad are everywhere. There have been 4-5 shad spawns since spring. Bait is all over. So why wind blown points?

First: Shad eat algae. Algae is easily wind blown. Algae accumulates on shore lines - especially on the main lake points.

Second: Whites (like all predators) like easy pickins. Accumulated shad + shallow water (the bait can flee in 4 directions, not six) = easy pickins.

I've seen the backs of whites up out of the water pinning shad against the shoreline.

Cliff's Notes: Find a wind blown shallow point. Fish there. Fill a stringer.

[WHARFRAT]

not to change the subject of the original question, but, does anybody really like to eat these fish? I have a great time catching these fighters, but, I have not put one in the livewell in over 20 years. I think they are too strong tasting. I've done all kinds of different recipes, cut all the red meat out, and still, its really not worth the trouble. BUT, I still like fishing for them. It's just C&R for me.

[Old plug]

I have tried them and do not care for them. I understand though that there is a way to clean them that takes away the strong taste.

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[Flysmallie]

I guess some people just don't like the taste of them. Or maybe they don't think they like the taste of them for some reason. I'll bet I could cook a white, a crappie and a walleye and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference in the three.

But I like all kinds of fish.

[tho1mas]

I have never had one that I did not like.