Personal Best Striper on Artificials
 

Not a giant by no means, but to date, on an artificial, its my biggest.
Took a cast with a big wake bait and had a big V wave behind it and a massive boil. another cast, closer to the boat seen a glimpse of silver. changed baits to a swim bait....cast, sploosh, 3 turns of the reel and BINGO!
i knew when i hooked it, it was going to go down 1 of 2 ways. i hammer her and she bolts for the nearest tree about 5ft from where i cast, or she bolts for the channel. Luckily for me, she made the mistake of taking the deep water route. i had the trolling motor already set on high and pointing toward the middle of the river. when she hit, it was like a seen from jaws or something, big submarine just below the surface, thick mono making that humming sound as it cut the water.
had several follows and a few more big boils early that morning up and down the river. caught 2 smaller stripers at sun up. they killed the water at 8 so i split. guessing the drop in water had surface activity to a minimum.
a few more slight tweaks to my tackle and i think im gonna be in the game more consistently on my trips. wanted to stick around after the stripers to boat some saugers but with the killing of generation, i figured my time would have been best spent doing yard work. lol.
the pic looks like crap cause its a still frame of a video. i didnt get the catch on video, but it was too difficult to hold the fish and juggle a selfie stick.
Go Pro should be delivered today...woo hoo!

Congrats! What lake?


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Old slickery!

Congrats.


Regards

GREAT!! bet that was an awsome bite!!!

Great fish John! Congrats

Nice fish.. Hope you got them figured out.

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You start gettin 'em like that and your sure to get STRIPER FEVER ! :D

Congrats! Beautiful fish. 👍


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Thanks guys! she had that brawler rod doubled over for sure. Ive had the fever for several years....just too hard to pick which fever im gonna tend to on any given day. Lol

Nice catch John, being prepared to go to deep water always is a plus...good skill.

Nice fish man, they sure are fun!

I lost more fish than i care to admit to when i first started targeting them 2 years ago on O.H due to being unprepared. Lol.
Undersized rod, reel, line....lol. just overall ignorance on that style of fishing for them. Now if they wrap around a tree, im fairly confident i can tie to a boat cleat, fire up the yamaha and pull lure, fish and tree out. Lol

Congrats. Nice fish. Was this Sunday morning by any chance. You and what I can see of your boat look like the guy that put in right after me just before daylight that day.

Thank you and you are correct!

Cool. You had a better morning than me and my son. Didn't even see a fish. However we did have a great breakfast at Waffle House about 9 or so. LOL.

Lol, i have had several days where waffle house breakfast WAS the best part of the day. Lol

Nice fish!!

Man....sure is a beauty!!! Perfect eating size too!! 😉


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Oh i ate something that day for sure! i ate that slick ramp from where they dropped the water. Looked like i had a total blow out in my pants! lol

Sounds like a personal problem!!! 😂😂😂


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Lol!!! I only laugh because I've been there myself. Then my buddy almost busted his butt from laughing at me so hard.

Deezltek busted his Sunday. He jumped out of the boat onto a slick rock to retrieve a crankbait....didn't work out to well for him.


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Croc Slides are a No-Go on slick ramps! Lol. I laughed about it after i got up, but i was more than whizzed off when it first happened. Lol

Hopefully you didnt have your cup of coffee in your hand.

Lol....not a coffee drinker but my Mt. Dew was already in the cup holder so that was saved. Lol.
Would have been a rough morning to lose my go-go juice after taking a spill like that.

Man it was like someone had greased that rock. Falling like that is rough on a man.. lol

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Nice work my friend I look forward to seeing your footage!

Great catch congrats!

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