Recent content by striperfear1973

not to many people fish for them any more , just because there just isn't many left and it is a hard fishery , night fishing is the best ,and the success rate is only about 10% its not like it was 20 years ago

on the smith , there is a hole called the 2 mile ,its oviously at the 2 mile marker on the lower smith , fish right off the rocks right there plunking bait or throwing plugs

there is still some around

and i aint tellin ya neither lol

stripers are opportunist, they will follow baitfish in and out of the rivers , right now they are coming into the rivers to spawn , they will be in big pods or schools , mostly smaller fish , the big females will most likely be alone , they will cover a lot of water ,going upriver , the best...

trhe hard thing about stripers is that they you cannot pattern them , there really is no set season or place , smith, umpqua , coos , coquille all hacve stripers , they eat about any bait fish , and will hit about any plug you throw at them , fish at night , thats when they feed the most , like...

the biggest hero mark i vcan make is , time on the water , is the key , and that is the hard part , mapping and document every trip and learn from them , scout , talk to people , but most of all its just getting out and doing it

im doing it for the fun but also the food they provide , the challenge of finding and catching them , ihave a hard time thinking that , me alone has considerably hurt the population of stripers , with the very low sport fishing of them ,im inclined to think there are way bigger forces out of my...

i have done hours and hours of time and research on stripers in the reedsport area , the fishery is not what it used to be at all , very slow almost non existent, there are fish there but it takes a lot of water time to find them and they move all the time , bait , water temp, current , moon ...

ive learned that the time per fish ratio is about 9 hrs to one fish

2013 i caught 9 that year , smallest was 12 pounds , biggest was the one you see at 40 pnds

whos goin after stripers!!!?

yes

some just get lucky i guess , this is after 4 years of searching and beating the waters up , nobody wants to go with you until you come home like this , this one was 40pnds the one behind me was 30 pnds