Originally posted by: John C. Taylor on 4/12/2005 6:27:35 AM

A fellow at work told me a that a fisherman he knows was catching wipers in the 4-5 lb range in one of our local lakes. Suddenly his rod bowed and the reel started to scream. After a good fight, he landed a 16 lb. wiper. That's a big ole fish for our area.

I asked about bait-----live minnows.

Good Luck------------JCT

Originally posted by: BigTexasBass on 4/7/2005 3:51:35 PM

I have recently become able to acess a body of water that holds stripers and hybrids. I am in SE Texas any tips would be appreciated. oh and I will be fishing from a boat to narrow it down.

I really appricate any advice,
Good Fishing

Originally posted by: BigTexasBass on 4/13/2005 12:47:01 PM

Thanks i will try that

Originally posted by: ouachitabassangler on 4/15/2005 8:30:46 AM

Stripers put on a hard pull like a big catfish, taking a lot of line, really testing the reel drag. Hybrids differ by fighting harder than any other freshwater fish I've had. I keep one heavy power, fast action Fenwick rod with a large capacity old Ambassador loaded with probably 200 yards (don't remember for sure) of 30 # Big Game mono for them. They like to dive deep and troll the boat for you, so be prepared to start up and follow them or lose the line- all of it. I don't go for them much because nobody in my family will eat them, no matter how well cleaned of red or cooked. I got turned off on them when I had a Ranger and hated to slime it up with the nasty creatures. Large scales quickly stop up the livewell, and the slime is tough to wash off when dry. They will break rods flopping in the boat, and knock loose stuff overboard, often coming in 30-40# each. Use the landing net. When a partner wants to striper fish we use live 5-6" shad that comes up from Texas, either trolled along river drop-offs in outside bends or dropped down on a suspended school in deep water. We occasionally encounter fun topwater action in the middle of the lake until winter. Large Bomber A, or a 8" trout imitation, and Zara Spook Magnums work there.

Happy fishing!

Jim

Originally posted by: brigster on 4/19/2005 10:51:21 AM

I live in Utah. I fish at Willard Bay for wipers.
One day i used just about all the lures in my tackle box. I took out a jerk bait that looks like a
small minnow. About 3" long. It must be a floating bait. Well to my surprise it did work. I caught 15 wipers the first day. The next day 25 more fish. I only kept one fish. It was 6lbs 5oz. I was fishing from the shore by a small patch of weeds. My method was casting the lure out as far as I could and make short jerks all the way back to the shore. I hope this information will help. Catch and Release
Brigham Evans <!--graemlin::)-->

Originally posted by: Gill. on 4/19/2005 10:45:28 PM

try piching jigs in the heat of the day in 15-20 ft of water. use a 6in soft plastic prower minnow, with a split tale, with a 1/2oz jig head. if the water if clear use a green or forest green color. if the water is off color go with a white with a orgen head jig. Now, find a drop off at bout 15-20 feet, an cast down it, (from be hind the drop) Drag your jig up that drop, giving a nice twiching to make it jump evey 3 1/2 turns on your reel.
keep your tip high, so the jig with drag face down an move a little mud on the bottem. Good luck. Works good for the Stipers in the out in Elephant Bute, here in New Mexico.

Originally posted by: brigster on 4/23/2005 6:33:14 PM

quote:

Originally posted by John C. Taylor:
A fellow at work told me a that a fisherman he knows was catching wipers in the 4-5 lb range in one of our local lakes. Suddenly his rod bowed and the reel started to scream. After a good fight, he landed a 16 lb. wiper. That's a big ole fish for our area.

I asked about bait-----live minnows.

Good Luck------------JCT

Originally posted by: brigster on 4/23/2005 6:36:27 PM

I never seen a 16lb wiper. The record in Utah is 7lbs 6oz.

Originally posted by: saugeye on 5/15/2005 8:38:36 PM

I would find a river or hatchery and get some small live trout 5-7inchs long use 20lb test line and size 5 octapuss hook. Tie a hook on the line then take a small ballon and just barely put air in it. Then tie it on the line one time so it will slide when the fish hits it. put the ballon about 6-8feet above the hook. When hooking the bait on put the hook just barely above the dorsal fin that way the trout will swim freely. Hope this helps you catch some fish.I catch 30-50lb stripers like this my personel best is 59.12lb

Originally posted by: lunkerhunter on 5/30/2005 7:26:57 PM

I and my friends have fished Lake Monroe -a 10,000 acre reservori in Indiana ofter for hybrids. In june or JUly the water warms up and they go deep. Trolling works best for us and usually with downriggers.

It's 3-dimensional fishing and you both have to find the hybrids and present a lure to them near or a foot or two above the depth at which they're feeding and when they are feeding,

They're usually in the bottom third of the reservoir--the deeper water toward the dam end of the lake.

One day they maybe active at the dam, and the next day in a bay several miles from the dam.

We normally troll 1/4 oz white or charteuse jigs with heavy saltwater hooks and plastic trailers on the downrigger setup, and flatline troll little macs, big macs, or zara spooks 100 yds back of the boat.

Often you'll mark schools on sonar in 25 ft of water and troll over them for hours without success. Often when they decide to feed, they'll come up to 218 to 12 feet and feed on shad.

Wekeep our sonars in manual mode and when we seen upwrd moving "lines of sphagetti" on the lcd it usually means action.

I've seen them caught on a lot of different lures and think it dosen't make much difference what lure you use as long as it resembles the forage fish in the lake that you are fishing, and that you put it in front of them when they are actively feeding.

Occasionally they'll bust shad at the surface, and the water will often boil for short periods of time, as thw shad try to leap out of the water to escape being eaten.

When that happens almost any lure will work.

Good luck.

Originally posted by: ouachitabassangler on 6/3/2005 8:11:12 PM

I like to either free-line a 6 inch shad or troll either a Long A or a trout imitation behind a planer board, or troll a shad, or several shad on an umbrella rig.

In the case of the live shad (in either method)it's important to give it lots of space, much freedom to roam and evade an approaching striper or hybrid. We usually have several lines out, so I hang a 3.5 oz sinker under a baloon float for free-lining, with a 6 foot leader attached to the main line. The weight is needed to keep shad from swimming cross-line tangling us up. The last foot of leader is always braided steel leader we custom fit with soldered end loops, one end with a secret type hook through the loop. Sorry, I am not at liberty to give the specifics, this being something important to my partner. Most any thick wire bass hook will do, though, starting at 5/0. Ours are hardened steel, won't straighten out, not easy to find. The leader eliminates a striper from sawing through the mono. I hook the shiner through the upper mouth roof and out one nostril. For trolling a planer board is used to get the shad to the right depth. If we can locate a suspended school we'll just drop the weighted shad down to them. If they are shallow and breaking we free-line the shad.

Troll 1/2-1 mile per hour depending on current in the strike zone. Generally go slower upstream. Any faster trolling will prevent the shad from swimming naturally. It must be as natural as possible.

All of the above will get you some big stripers. Find them, then catch them with the striper candy listed above.

Jim

Originally posted by: dawsonb on 6/8/2005 7:07:01 PM

I like trolling or kasting castmasters, but I think it is more about finding them they roam alot. They are wary of boats and noise but if you can find them and they are hunger what a blast. LOL

Originally posted by: littlebear on 3/18/2006 6:32:35 PM

The best fishing pole I have used is the ultra-light ugly stick. You can feel just about anything on that pole. If you have a fish that keeps on taking your bait without you knowing about it, you will know about on the ugly stick.

Originally posted by: Johneeed on 3/19/2006 1:40:01 PM

if your using a ultra-light ugly stick....with these fish, you'll loose alot of gear and fish..
go a little heavier....

J.D.

Originally posted by: lbt on 7/2/2007 8:39:24 PM

bump!

Originally posted by: g_RIZZLER27 on 9/3/2007 3:42:10 PM

I use a big roostertail in the tailwaters of the dam. They take it more around 3:30 P.M.-7:30 P.M. There will probably be a few guys on the shore and three or four boats on a medium sized lake at one time behind the dam. Good luck <!--graemlin:;)-->

Originally posted by: trentonmakes on 10/22/2007 9:43:37 AM

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I got turned off on them when I had a Ranger and hated to slime it up with the nasty creatures. Large scales quickly stop up the livewell, and the slime is tough to wash off when dry. They will break rods flopping in the boat, and knock loose stuff overboard, often coming in 30-40# each.