GraphiteZen

I know there are people here that are crazy about stripers. I have long thought about going for some but it's hard to find out just how far up into Oregon they run. I read somewhere that Winchester Bay is a great for striper fishing... Anyone?

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chris61182

From everything I've ever read/heard in Oregon Winchester Bay, and the Smith and Umpqua rivers are more or less your only good shot at a striper. And I believe they are supposed to be in the river systems at the moment for the pre-spawn.

Good luck, and let us know how you do.

cavdad45

...and Coos Bay!

Hawk

Stripers are Anadromous..............they live in salt or fresh water.


I loved to catch & release them in the CA Delta, CA Aquaduct concrete canal, Delta/Mendota canal.................the San Luis Reservoir Forebay,etc............lustrums ago..............


also the Colo River & Lake Havasu...........Big'Un Stripers...............

cavdad45

I used to catch them at the Moss Landing pier on the north side of Monterey Bay when my folks owned it. Caught quite a few Tigersharks and Leopard sharks and rays, too!

Hawk

It's a small small world................


Fer 6 lustrums we lived in the Monterey/Marina/Prunedale/Salinas, CA area................


I used to go to the Giant Artichoke in Castroville...get an order of deepfried A hearts...then head on over to do some fishin' fer jack smelt behind the Moss Landing canneries or on the pier/ surf fishin' fer stripers over towards the start of the Salinas River/ on the rocks/ or by the slough/ sometimes catch some lunker Bass at Pinto Lake, Watsonville...................

cavdad45

That is so cool, Hawk. I have some siblings still around Watsonville and in Monterey.

I used to drive down on weekends when I was stationed at Moffett Field and that's where I started saltwater fishing.

Hawk

My Beloved Brother still lives in Prunedale. He has been a high school teacher 35 years. Much of the time he has taught youngsters who dropped out of school, then later came back to get their Diploma at a school in Fort Ord. He Loves his Students & Teaching.


Lustrums ago we did a lot of fishin' in lake San Antonio & Naciemiento over by King City,.....................they started putting Stripers in San Antonio.......................they ate many of the trout when the truck dumped trout into the lake each spring...............& other species of fish..................

Hawk

It wasn't in the ocean but in...1989 i was fishin' fer Stripers in San Luis Res, Forebay, CA close to Santa Nella.............i saw a man on a bassboat (from Soquel) catch a Striper which weighed out at 66 lb +...............i heard it was the inland freshwater record & that he was paid...............10k fer the fish..........................


Later that year i heard a man caught a 99lb Sturgeon in the Forebay that came through the CA Aquaduct from the Delta, by Tracy............................

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Hawk

If'n i remember correctly...later in 1989 an angler caught a new record Striper that was ...66lb but more ounces then at San Luis. This Lunker was caught in the Colorado River between Laughlin & Lake Havasu,...NV/AZ................


A friend of mine that is a Snowbird rver told me Lake Alamo, AZ has Big'Un Bass & Crappie.................

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