Anyone going to be pulling free lines Friday? If so, the bite still good in Crystal lake or has the water cleared and they are moving up lake? I’ll be out there and as of right now looks like I may be solo on the Gamefish
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2016 Sea Hunt 25 Gamefish twin Yamaha 150’s
Depends on how much rain we get in the next couple days but I would think from the river fork up to clouds creek on the little river would be a good place to wet a hook.
Has anyone had success up there yet? Any depths to consider staying in? I’m guessing Friday I’ll have to go up the gap and just look at how the water looks as I head up towards Acapulco.
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2016 Sea Hunt 25 Gamefish twin Yamaha 150’s
Been catching fish up there since nov! Many many double digit size fish came from above #4 this past weekend.
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#4 is Riverbend right? I’m not familiar with ramps or up lake much. Most my life was fished from Acapulco and dreher down towards the Dam. Looks like if I’m right then that’s well below the Y but well up lake. I usually put in around Captains Choice in Hollow Creek but thinking about towing boat to Blacks Bridge and putting in around there or anywhere near there.
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2016 Sea Hunt 25 Gamefish twin Yamaha 150’s
SCEG ramp#4 is 5,280ft from the river forks:wink:, And #4 is only 15,840ft away from blacks bridge…#4 is a very popular ramp. And it’s free, that always makes it better 
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Aint’ no more Striper left in Lake Murray …
My boy, Jace done caught 'em all … 
… it’s my Wife’s fault we HAVE to fish !!!
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Try Kimsons bridge this time of the year and head up!
This is the first year we’ve been almost to February in a long while, and I haven’t been in the rivers. Think I’ll give it a try this weekend. Not that we haven’t been catching downlake, I just need a change of scenery.
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I finally got my boat out of the shop a couple of weeks ago & have been itching to get out and water test it. I might have to head up that way & try it out on Sunday. I’m assuming planer boards & free lines are the way to go?
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Very slow fishing. Using the motors isn’t working. I have a set up where I can trim 1 motor half prop out of water enough to make it pee, one motor off and trimmed down, both trim tabs all the way dos. Got speeds .9-1.2 mph. We had 2 knock downs on a down rod in Crystal lake before a flat line went off at 1:30. We had been fishing since 8:30 AM. Fished from #4 up past big mans and a good ways further under the bridge before heading to Crystal Lake. Went to Frayed Knot and got a bite to eat and spoke to a Guide Captain. Whoever you are, can’t remember your company name, THANKS! Thanks for the tips and calling me to the fish. Found schooling fish and had a dozen or better knock downs and boated 3. Had 1 23" fish and 3 others just under 21".
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2016 Sea Hunt 25 Gamefish twin Yamaha 150’s
FB2 I’m thinking an I pilot is near!
.9-1.2 is a great speed, especially if u had gizzards but I am guessing only herring,
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Herring. The guide I spoke with said I needed shiners because Herring were too big. Never heard that!
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2016 Sea Hunt 25 Gamefish twin Yamaha 150’s
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Originally posted by boatpoorFB2 I’m thinking an I pilot is near!
You know it
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Originally posted by FLORIDA_BOY2Herring. The guide I spoke with said I needed shiners because Herring were too big. Never heard that!
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2016 Sea Hunt 25 Gamefish twin Yamaha 150’s
Yeah, that’s a new one to me, too. 
I’ve had instances where they bite better on a shiner than a herring, or vice versa, but I always just account that to what they want that day.
I love hamburgers, and could eat them everyday, but a steak every once in a while is a nice change of pace.
I’m in the minority in thinking shiners are good Striper bait. I’ve had lots of success with them. They are a lot easier to deal with than herring. Less messy and they keep for days like a champ. However, herring is a pretty solid bet, too. If they didn’t work as advertised, people wouldn’t expend so much time and effort on catching them and buying expensive bait tanks to keep them frisky!
I’ve used just about every bait you can catch in a cast net at one time or another. Even though I’ve always been told herring are a Stripers favorite forage food (and gizzard shad are BIG Stripers favorite food), I’ve hooked up on fish with all of them. I think presenting a lively bait at the right depth is more important than type or size.
It’s pretty common to see a tiny Linesider attack a huge bait that they could never swallow. They are the Jack Russells of the water. They think they are 300% bigger than they are! I’ve never known one to back away from anything because they thought it was too big.
Just my $.02 worth.
Quote from Tim Adrien, “if you think your bait is too big it’s prob just right” .
I have some trout right now in the house tank that are 18-20" long along with gizzards from 8-15"…trout will get a 8-9/0 in there nose, gizzards a 4-6/0, it will put them out and hope for the best…ha…go big or go home.
I have caught 18" striper on 10" baits. They really do not care if the bait is too big for them. They will find a way to get it in there mouth.
Last month at marks tx on the on the hill we were catching hybrids 5-7# hybrids on 8" gizzards. Their Mouth wasn’t even close to being big enough to eat that bait, but somehow they found a hook, other times they wouldn’t even be hooked, just the bait wedged in their mouth.
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115 Evinrude
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Originally posted by FLORIDA_BOY2Herring. The guide I spoke with said I needed shiners because Herring were too big. Never heard that!
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2016 Sea Hunt 25 Gamefish twin Yamaha 150’s
Best kept secret out there. Not for the size, but stripers love them and I believe they’d stay alive in a wet sock.
Speaking of shiners or jumbo minnows, where can I pick some up as I treavel from Greenville to Dreher Island? Thanks Guys!
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Originally posted by FLORIDA_BOY2Herring. The guide I spoke with said I needed shiners because Herring were too big. Never heard that!
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2016 Sea Hunt 25 Gamefish twin Yamaha 150’s
FB2, surely the guide you were talking to didn’t mean “too big” as in too big for a striper to hit, but rather he has probably been having better luck with the shiners recently and, in his opinion, feels like they are feeding better lately on smaller baits.
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