Went bass fishing and..

[Quillback]

A striper bite broke out.

Fished with a fellow Bella Vistan this morning, we launched at 0515 and zipped over to the Clifty arm.  Started fishing a pojnt and noticed some stripers chasing shad, tossed a Yellow magic popper at them and caught a 10 lber.  My buddy threw a Whopper Plopper at them, he had a couple of swirls but didn't hook up.  The top water bite did not last long and they were scattered, didn't see any schooling.  Caught one more little striper about 3 lbs. and that was it for the striper bite.

We then went to bass fishing, found a few decent keeper sized smallies, couple of nice spots, and a dozen dinks.  Dragging 1/2 oz War Eagle football jigs with twin tailed trailers was the best technique.  Got a couple on topwaters and one Carolina rig smallie.  Caught one largemouth that was 14" or so, but never ran across any other largies.

Decent water color in Clifty, you can see botoom in about 7 FOW. WT 75.  Several striper boats in there pulling balloons.  Cold this morning, had to wear the hoodie for a while.

 

 

[Dan the fisherman]

That sounds like a prefect morning.  Good job out there 👍🏽

[Carl W]

That's awesome Quill! That had to be fun!

[Stump bumper]

I have got to get up early more often, thanks for the report.

[Johnsfolly]

Great way to take advantage of an opportunity that presented itself! Congrats on the striper bite QB!

[Ham]

I hate myself. Errrbody fishing but me. 

[bferg]

Thats a good morning!!  Early bird gets the worm on the top water stripers for sure!