Confirm my research?

[Gavin]

The Mill dam has been breached for quite some time. Stripers can move in & out at will. You could drop a jet in at Blair and run to the Falls, over the Falls to McKee Bridge at high water. Friends have  done it, and folks would use jets to gig when it was still allowed above Patrick. The main obstacles to boat traffic are the low bridges at Dawt, Patrick, the Falls (2’ rock ledge across the river), and McKee Bridge. Guys with drift boats have trouble getting under McKee sometimes, and Patrick always. Brian Bade @ Sunburst Ranch could show you where they stay. Justin Spencer still lives on the river and he could too. 

[gotmuddy]

Bryant would be much easier to run but it would depend more on water levels.  IMO its a not worth it as I have heard nothing about a spring striper run, only catching them at different times of the year when the lake is really high.

[fishinwrench]

6 hours ago, gotmuddy said:

Bryant would be much easier to run but it would depend more on water levels.  IMO its a not worth it as I have heard nothing about a spring striper run, only catching them at different times of the year when the lake is really high.

I can't speak for the North Fork/Bryant specifically, but Stripers DO run up the tributaries, usually about the time that the White bass are finishing up.   I find them in the Lake O tribs after the female Whites have disappeared and only a few males remain.   

Up here the migration schedule goes like this.....

First come the Walleye.

Then the Goldeye (crazy 12-14' shad looking things that chase a fly but won't bite anything).

Then after a good rain the male White bass magically appear overnight.

Then the gar, and Buffalo.

Then the female Whites, mixed with Hybrids and mutts. 

About 2 weeks later the female Whites are gone and the occasional Striper starts showing up. 

Male whites filter out completely within a few days, and Stripers remain for a week or two UNLESS the water level falls out.     If the water falls then they go away and don't come back.

 

 

 

[Ik314]

Did you ever end up figuring anything  out on them stripers ?