I have not seen any gulls on Lake Murray yet this year, or other seasonal birds such as loons. Is that true for the rest of you as well? Will they be coming soon? Is the warm fall keeping them away? Or is something else involved? Any thoughts or insight?
need a good nor’easter or two.
saw a few gulls Sunday…
I was out Sunday morning. We got into some stripers schooling on the surface early but didn’t see any gulls. Don’t understand it…
Daniel C Brown
Hope they don’t come this year. That is the only way most bassers can find stripers.
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you are right about that mudball.that or follow the striper fisherman and wait for them to locate them.
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Originally posted by sharkyyou are right about that mudball.that or follow the striper fisherman and wait for them to locate them.
i hear ya guys… but that’s the way you learn, right? i’m learning striper behavior a little at a time, but it’s always nice to have the cliffs notes. that said… they don’t call them “Rockfish” for nothing 
saw two adult and one juvie Bald Eagles this morning. pretty cool. very few gulls and no loons.
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Originally posted by dernflatlandersaw two adult and one juvie Bald Eagles this morning. pretty cool. very few gulls and no loons.
any fish? or are you turning into an ornithologist? j/k about the birds, but seriously… any decent fish?
i figured with the low cloud cover that they would school like crazy - WRONG! Didn’t buy any bait - MISTAKE! mate and I caught probably 30 on Saturday around Ebert with 3 keepers and pulled the hook on a day-maker at the boat. anchored on ‘em in 54’ w/ down rods 3 cranks up, big fish hit a striper delight placed in his wash-tub swirl. looked from Jake’s to Lighthouse to Bear to Beaverdam today with a nary a sign of surface feeding. i think my next sorty may be to hollow creek.
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Originally posted by dernflatlanderi figured with the low cloud cover that they would school like crazy - WRONG! Didn’t buy any bait - MISTAKE! mate and I caught probably 30 on Saturday around Ebert with 3 keepers and pulled the hook on a day-maker at the boat. anchored on ‘em in 54’ w/ down rods 3 cranks up, big fish hit a striper delight placed in his wash-tub swirl. looked from Jake’s to Lighthouse to Bear to Beaverdam today with a nary a sign of surface feeding. i think my next sorty may be to hollow creek.
NICE!! Don’t ya love how the ‘daymakers’ always seem to pull the hook right at the boat? happened to me twice in the past few trips.
I think it is funny that when phishinphan looses a big gar at the boat it becomes a daymaker striper.
from the way you talk steelyit sounds like he almost spilled his beer and lost the fish saving his beer.
Well in his defense, he likes fancy beer. Plus in his relegion it is a sin to spill beer.
ok then.
quote:Thanks for the report, I was beginning to lose faith in the CF fleet. I thought the idea of this forum was to share formation, seemed like lately I was the only one. My dad is coming in from Texas for the week so I should be out on the water every day...hope to report good news.
Originally posted by dernflatlanderi figured with the low cloud cover that they would school like crazy - WRONG! Didn’t buy any bait - MISTAKE! mate and I caught probably 30 on Saturday around Ebert with 3 keepers and pulled the hook on a day-maker at the boat. anchored on ‘em in 54’ w/ down rods 3 cranks up, big fish hit a striper delight placed in his wash-tub swirl. looked from Jake’s to Lighthouse to Bear to Beaverdam today with a nary a sign of surface feeding. i think my next sorty may be to hollow creek.
Sea Hunt
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Originally posted by steelytomI think it is funny that when phishinphan looses a big gar at the boat it becomes a daymaker striper.
in my defense, i never said it was a striper. although i guess that is the point of all this isn’t it? 
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Originally posted by TheWhippingPostquote:Thanks for the report, I was beginning to lose faith in the CF fleet. I thought the idea of this forum was to share formation, seemed like lately I was the only one. My dad is coming in from Texas for the week so I should be out on the water every day...hope to report good news.
Originally posted by dernflatlanderi figured with the low cloud cover that they would school like crazy - WRONG! Didn’t buy any bait - MISTAKE! mate and I caught probably 30 on Saturday around Ebert with 3 keepers and pulled the hook on a day-maker at the boat. anchored on ‘em in 54’ w/ down rods 3 cranks up, big fish hit a striper delight placed in his wash-tub swirl. looked from Jake’s to Lighthouse to Bear to Beaverdam today with a nary a sign of surface feeding. i think my next sorty may be to hollow creek.
Sea Hunt
220 Triton
“Whipping Post”
i’ll share info, but since i do the same thing every time out, there’s not a whole lot to tell.
down lines with live herring at various depths depending on what the fish finder is showing. free line or two off the back. controlled drifting at 0.4 to 0.6 mph.
and now that it’s fall and the schools are showing up i’ll keep an extra medium action 6’ rod with a plug/popper/crank bait/jig or something to cast when it seems appropriate.
whipping post i’ll share info when i have it.i just don’t fish until the cooler weather.you’ll get tired of seeing my name on here.i report good and bad,because i knowthem boats don’t run on air.
Caught about 25 today from 15-25 inches all on top. The ones we found schooled until about 10:45, when we headed for the hill. Water depth where we found them was around 30 ft. give or take a few.