Back on stripers caught on 12" brown trout for bait. #6/0 Octopus hooks.
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Back on stripers caught on 12" brown trout for bait. #6/0 Octopus hooks.
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Is that legal? Not that I care, just curious.Quote:
Originally Posted by TNKen
This is the White River system, no?
In Tennessee, anything caught legally can be used for bait. Last Friday, in a little less than 2 hours we caught about 45 or so browns from 8 to 15 inches. Kind of like being in a trout pond. Keep them in the baitwell, ice them couple of times a day, throw in an airstone and they will live for a couple of weeks. Limit is 7 per person. Fish in the 16-22" range are protected. Can only keep one fish over 22". Except to fish for stripers, I rarely keep any.
River system is the Holston in upper East Tennessee. Middle and South Fork of the Holston start in Southwest Virginia, dammed up into South Holston Lake, out of the dam the river runs into Boone Lake, then Patrick Henry, and down to Cherokee. We typically fish when Tennessee Valley Authority TVA is releasing water. On this particular day, we got lucky and ran upon some feeding fish on low water. Usually pretty tough to do.
Google Boone Lake, Bluff City, TN and you can see the river system in our area.
It's not like the Rockies. These tailwater fisheries are man made trout fisheries created for the benefit of sportsmen so different sensibilities apply. There's no precious "wild" trout to wring one's hands over. In TN, you have to pay extra for a trout stamp and that money goes towards dumping millions of stockers into the tailwater. Slot limits didn't even exist when I lived in TN and back then one could catch a few hundred dinks before finding a holdover fish longer than 16". Those hog rockfish they catch are a more worthy sport fish. A much tougher quarry than a trout and made much, much tougher if you don't use live bait. My family used dip nets and casting nets to collect gizzard and skipjack shad as my dad firmly believed those bright, oily fish made the superior bait. Then again, we're talking about a guy who distinguished between 3 different types of creek minnows, collected hellgramites and salamanders and would try to use only freshly molted "softshell" crawdads for his smallmouth fishing. He was serious about fishing so he was damn serious about bait.Quote:
Originally Posted by Underoos
Neckdeep, good analysis. Interestingly enough, the brown trout in this part of the Holston do reproduce naturally. They haven't put browns in the river in 8 years. They do dump in some small rainbow, that fatten up the browns!!!
Come back and we'll drag one in the tub.
Monday in the downpour. About 35ish.
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That's a fatty. I keep forgetting my phone on the boat when I go up to hang fish. Killed a 145 yesterday.
I wish I was coming to fish with you or deathvan in a few weeks, oh well I am expecting to have some pictures for this thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chugachjed
Double up from a few hour squeezed in yesterday afternoon. Fellow up for the NASCAR race from Georgina. We managed to boat 8 stripers in about an hour.
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Big hooks check.
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Live bait, not so much.
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Big motors, not really.
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Big fish, definitely.
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Mud - Location? Curious...thx
Pensacola Beach. We get together about once or twice a month with a big shark tourney in the fall where we camp out on the beach have a bonfire and eat some blacktips. It's quite debaucherous.Quote:
Originally Posted by pepperdawg
Holy shit, this a big trout. I dont know him but he is a local and caught her on the big lake.
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/eve...0lake%20trout/
Not often I can contribute to this but...
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77" and 245 pounds of tastiness.
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Big Topwater smallie
10/5/2013, 40 pound Wahoo, Christmas Island, Kiribati Republic, 9/0 Gamakatsu Octopus Single Hook, 70 pound test wire leader, Tuna Feathers lure.
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Big hook- big ol plug with treble hooks
Live bait- strapped a sardine fillet to it, but I don't think the sardine (fillet) lived
Boat with big motor- big ol jet boat motor
Big fish- ok, maybe not so big for King, but it's the biggest fish I've caught by a long shot
Eating it this weekend.
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Last week on St. George Island with my 72 year old dad and brother.
Big Hook - Gamakatsu 7/0 Octopus Circle
Live Bait - Threadfin Herring and Scaled Sardines
Boat w/ Big Motor - 22 foot Express Aluminum Center Console, Yamaha 115hp (ok, maybe not a big motor)
Big Fish -
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10 pound Redfish
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12 pound Redfish
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9 pound Redfish
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10 pound Redfish
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10 pound Redfish
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5 X 6 = 30 pounds of Redfish
Zara Spook instead of live bait -
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5 pound Trout
that guide named Simon?Quote:
Originally Posted by Denny1969
Neemia. He is the head guide at The Villages.Quote:
Originally Posted by mushmouth
Dennis
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Jack's 50" on a sucker.
Schweet!!!! Will get one of those one of these days. We have a few in a TVA reservoir a couple of hours from here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Millsie
Resurrecting an old thread. Headed down to Nash-vegas last weekend for trophy stripers. Fishing with 16" skipjack. This 42 pound pig managed to hook himself.
Daughter Mere got it to the boat.
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Damn that's a giant!! Just got back from Cali. on a striper trip, nothing close to that pig. Strong work!Quote:
Originally Posted by TNKen
Where's the rest?? Another shark eat it? After butcher pic?Quote:
Originally Posted by warthog
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Boat goes in next week. This was taken last spring off of Atlantic Highlands NJ. The stripers have aways treated me well there in the spring. Took this on plug....one of 8 or so that day just like it then on the surface. Of course the 10wt was left in the car....Murphy's law. Hoping for a solid early run again.
Edit: TGR hat FTW
Haha. Mere was wearing her Snowbird hat, but we wanted to see her face!!
OMG! Loving the striper porn!! Feck you guys grow em big on the east side!
And the are all happily swimming again...always barbless and never on a treble...never
I feel like somewhat of a pussy when I compare my fish to TNKen's daughter's striper, but last night in the fog, dark, bugs, and cold I managed to catch this guy:
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with this:
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My first striper of the season on my new rod and baitcaster. Totally fucking stoked! There are some big boys in the river and I am gonna catch them.
http://www.adn.com/article/20140707/...ka-jaw-dropper
This is where I'm guiding this season!!! Stoked to kill monsters!
YUM!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chugachjed
Tiger shark made a meal out of a 19 ft Hammerhead. This was off Aus. Gonna need a bigger boat.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2FUNKY
You guys are killin it here! Some big stripers in this thread?
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So it's hard to tell in the picture but the little fish are around 30lbs. First fish of the season was a shooter. Good way to begin.
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NJ produced tonight! Took 10 more just like this. Insane surface popper action, just wild. The blitz lasted for 30mins.
O. M. F. G! Sick striper action man, I would kill to get in on something like that.