Striper Super Bowl Sunday

[Vinsott]

Went out today from 2pm to 6 with brooders that I still have alive I bought over a month ago.  Went to the birds and found shad everywhere.  I recently was given an older 10ft cast net that I spent a day repairing and wanted to give it a try.  One throw and about 500 shad.  I gave some to some guys in a kayak and kept a few and started shaking the net over the side to get them out of the net.  The net works.  I tried a jigging spoon and would get 1-4 shad stuck on the treble hook.

Had brooders and small shad down about 25' and ended up catching a 37" and two 29"'s, all on the brooders. All stripers were fat pigs and I kept a smaller one for dinner.

Was a beautiful afternoon with light winds finally and I got home by halftime.

[Quillback]

That is one fat striper!

[dtrs5kprs]

Nice work.

[Mitch f]

Great job, that hard pull against your rod would never get old!!

[Blll]

T-shirt & stripers on Super Bowl Sunday. Does it get any better? Great job! I'm going' soon!

[Stump bumper]

I was in the horsehoe bend area all after noon and could not find any shad at all, so no stripers. Glad you were able to find them. I did bring up some spots off the bottom in about 20 feet of water dragging a ned rig with the light wind. All the fish I caught were really lethargic for water temps near 50, felt more like pulling in sticks. I had a 14 inch crappie that I thought was dead until I put him back and watched him swim back down.

I should have run more and looked for the birds but I was just lazy and enjoying the sun.