i am going up to lake murray tomorrow (fri) and staying till sunday. I am takin my fly gear and hoping to get into some stripers on the lake. Not really looking for spots, just some advice on what kind of line(s) i need, and the best types of flies to be usin. any advice will be greatly appreciated. i really want to hook up with one on the fly.
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deep lines dude! big ol dredgers and semi short fluro leaders. i generally use a bigger rod 9’s and 10’s b/c of the heavy grains being tossed. check channels in front of the bigger islands like the ones out from the dam, Billy Dreher, etc. white decieviers are what i used when i fished there. start with smaller flies 2- 1/0 and work up. generally the smaller ones produced. birds mean there on top, but the biggest linesiders will be below. yadayada, same old story. find the bait and they’ll be there. the dam, up on the rocks can hold some bigguns too at low light.
thanks dude…im gettin pretty stoked.
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fair enough…we’ll see. is it really that hard to catch a striper on the fly?
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quote:It was funny until you added, "Really"
Originally posted by edisto-fisherIf you catch a keeper striper on the fly in lake murray tomorrow I will kiss your arse on the courthouse steps of Newberry and give you 2 hours to draw a crowd.
Really,I promise.
HAHA! dats funny! no, its not really hard. you just have to find them and get it down to their feeding zone. you gotta catch one now dude, if you gotta spend the night out there. i will drive to newberry when you do! find the bait on the sounder brudda…
try the headwaters and look for the gulls. If the gulls are feeding, the stripers are underneath. Most fish will be schoolie sized, but are lot of fun. I use a 9wt with floating line and all white clousers when they are feeding like this. The fish were in the headwaters last duck season. I could go shoot my woodies and release a couple striper on the long rod on my way back to the ramp-good times. Never fished any other method for them but what scotty is describing sounds like money.
“Fishing is alot like sex…when its good,it’s really good, and when its bad, its still pretty good.”
caught a million stripers…all keepers. caught three marlin too. on the 8wt of course
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