Striper Night Fishing

[Dan Sweeney]

It's not tiny, and it's fairly stable (semi-V), but it does place some limitations on the amount of water that can be covered in a given amount of time. But, it works well, is EXTREMELY low maintenance, and has little to no administrative requirements (taxes, registration, etc).

[Amery]

I love it. Just very untypical for beaver. I have an inflatable pontoon so I'm a row boater as well.

[Amery]

You shooting mallards with that recurve?

[Dan Sweeney]

I have shot at few ducks with it, mostly on my pond rather than Beaver. If I miss on my pond I can track down the arrow. If I miss on Beaver....... Not so much. I usually take it with me in case a deer wanders down by the water or so I can kill time in the middle of the day on the islands or below the Corps property line. I've yet to get one that exact way, although that bow has put ten deer in the freezer the past four seasons.

It's not actually a recurve. It's a straight stave selfbow. I have a couple of old recurves but I don't hunt them much anymore. Too modern.

[rhondafish]

Been looking to put oars in our smaller flat bottom.48 inch wide floor, 16 ft long. Any suggestions re oar locks, and length of oars? (AND where to get them?) Not wanting to spend a ton of $ like the guys that spend 400-700 bucks on Drift Boat oars. Thanks for your help

[Dan Sweeney]

The Carlisle oar locks, either steel or plastic (I've used both. Ever seen how quickly a steel oar lock sinks when you decide to adjust the positioning while mid-lake?), seem pretty decent to me. I ordered them but you might check around more than I did. The metal run around 25 bucks or so and the plastic around 35. The plastic come with sleeves to fit different sized sockets. If (when) you lose the sockets, a 20 gauge hull makes a fine replacement. I got oars from either Cabelas or Acadamy, I forget which. I am thinking I'll make my next set.

As far as functionality goes, the plastic ones are much, much quieter. I have caught scores and scores of fish and snuck up within slapping distance of assorted critters by rowing. I've never tried trolling for striper yet, but I am planning to give it a go this year. I've been doing my homework and I suspect that with no motors going I can cause a lot less disturbance and manage to make it work at least some of the time. If nothing else, it's a lot of fun and a light to fair workout depending on wind and who is in the boat with you. I'm still tinkering with rod holder ideas and things of that nature but will have it up and going soon after AT.

[FISH YAK'N]

Hook Line & Sinker reporting good time to fish 12 bridge at night for white bass. I think stripers or hybrids would be around there too.

[Feathers and Fins]

I've been out almost each night this week and it has been good up until last night ( lots of traffic ) but more disturbing was the amount of boats running around with NO LIGHTS ON. darn hard to get a bite at night with boat traffic but dangerous running no lights WTH are people thinking.

[FISH YAK'N]

I've been out almost each night this week and it has been good up until last night ( lots of traffic ) but more disturbing was the amount of boats running around with NO LIGHTS ON. darn hard to get a bite at night with boat traffic but dangerous running no lights WTH are people thinking.

I've never seen AGFC out on Beaver Lake. Seems like they can just patrol main areas of the lake to help with this problem.