Went last nite up to the dam to give them a try. It was cool but nice and flat and calm. bait is there but really deep. tryed the little rigs but to deep. thank god brought my cast net. managed to get a few nice 5-6inch herring.caught 2 stripers one 19" 1 21" kept the 21. they have nice fat bellies on them. i have fished up there for years and this is the earliest i have ever caught them.
did you try trolling strech 25s just woundering?
BEEF, IT’S WHAT FOR DINNER IF WE DON’T CATCH FISH
have not tred them yet. they want the bait right now but i do try stretch baits later on in year.
talked to dnr and they said that the striper are not where they usully are this time of year. my boss lives on the lake and he told me the same thing. the dnr guy said that they are wooried about the stock. i caught 2 by the dam also on live shinners. has any body else heard about the decline on the lake.
PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals
i live up there during the summer time and 5 years ago they would come a dime a dozen, but over the past year or two it seams to me they have gone down.
Snooker, where are the stripers usually supposed to be this time of year? I know year before last we slayed the stripers in May and June trolling with stretches but last year we didn’t do squat. They just weren’t there at any point in May or June. I hope this year is better.
shrimpcatcher
I’ve noticed a decline lately as well. About 5 yrs ago we were catching 15 to 25 nice fish a day in APR on the flats around Packs’. The past couple of years have just plained sucked. I think I caught 1 or 2 in 5 or 6 trips last year. What do yall think is wrong?
i think they may have just been over fished the past couple of years. if you go out into the chanel, or just look out on to the lake it looks like a city of people just stacked in there wearing them out. i guess we just caught them faster than they can reproduce.
They stopped running water down the cooper. They have relied on a non working fish lift on the rediversion. People can say what they want as far as why the fish arent here but there was an extreme amount of pressure in the 70’s and the fish got thicker. When they stopped locking through the ocean fish on the cooper the fishery died. It has simply taken this many years to see it. People would be wise to pressure santee cooper to allow a little constant flow down the cooper for the relicensing. As I hear it the relicensing project has become very political and biology has no place in the meetings. I was told that dnr didn’t have a say in the water flow. We will never have the striper of old until they flow the water down the cooper.