Water Report from Prairie Creek

[Ham]

Ohhhh the difference a "P" can make. The strippers frolicing in the shallows is going to muddy up the water too. Hats off to those young ladies for their cold water tolerence.

[J-Doc]

8 hours ago, Champ188 said:

I watched a group of stripers on Lake Ouachita once run themselves so far up into the mud at the back end of a creek they had to flop themselves into the air to get back deep enough to swim. This went on for 10 minutes. It was in February right after we'd had a warm runoff rain.

That's odd behavior.  Guess it has to correlate with the spawn? 

 

Dang........and I just cleaned up the boat.  Now yall have me wanting to get up river. 

[bfishn]

58 minutes ago, J-Doc said:

That's odd behavior.  Guess it has to correlate with the spawn?  

Not at all. More than half the stripers I've caught from Beaver came from areas less than 7-8' deep, and were a lonnggg ways from 20' or deeper water.

Just don't expect to sneak up on those fish in a boat. You've either got to tie up and wait for them to come in, or be on the bank. It has nothing to do with the spawn and everything to do with the shad.

[Stump bumper]

5 hours ago, bfishn said:

Not at all. More than half the stripers I've caught from Beaver came from areas less than 7-8' deep, and were a lonnggg ways from 20' or deeper water.

Just don't expect to sneak up on those fish in a boat. You've either got to tie up and wait for them to come in, or be on the bank. It has nothing to do with the spawn and everything to do with the shad.

I have caught 20 in the back of MN from the boat when they were feeding, you just have to keep your trolling motor on low and make long cast. Now when one boat runs back on his big motor, it is over and they run for deep water.

[Champ188]

6 hours ago, bfishn said:

 It has nothing to do with the spawn and everything to do with the shad.

Yup, they had corraled a bunch of shad back in that runoff and were chowing down on them.