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i fish on a river directly below a dam on the NC/SC border. supposedly its the best spot near the lake for striper, even better than on the lake, but i dont have any luck in the winter for them. what lures/baits should i use and what weather/time of day is the best during jan., feb., months?
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June 24th, 2010 at 5:57 am
Find them on the fish finder if your in a boat. Jig a RSR silver slab “slow” even leaving it still at times. If big schools of shad are mixed with the stripers they are not feeding. Keep scanning with the sonar till you find broken up shad mixed with them, those strippers are feeding and breaking up the shad school.
June 24th, 2010 at 6:16 am
Start looking for Stripers around the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd breakwater nearest the dam. Stripers like to stay “just” out of the current waiting for a tasty morsel to swim by.
(Where current meets “slower” water is called a breakwater.)
Where I come from, (Jacksonville, Fla), we use large 1/2-1 OZ wide-gap jigs with 5-6″ curly-tailed grubs, 1/2-1 OZ Spoons with a 6″ fresh strip-bait as a trailer and large swim-baits such as a 6″ Storm Wild-eye Swim Shad.
In J-ville, cold, rainy, miserable weather with overcast skys and low light levels always seemed to be when Stripers decided to turn on.
Try fishing very early moring and late evening into night.
Colors that work well: Chartreuse, White, White/Red head, “Glow” greens and Reds.
A good way to get Stripers “turned on” is with a large Spook Jr or Super Spook topwater lure retrieved in a “walk the dog” fashion. Topwater lures can sometimes “intrigue/inspire” Stripers to start on a feed.
Cast a TW for 20-30 minutes and then switch over to your Jigs, Spoons & Swimbaits.
Make sure to dowse all lures with a good fish attractant! Fish attractant removes the “human scent” which fish associate with danger. If Pogy’s or Shrimp are in your fishing waters use an aersol Pogy or Shrimp spray attractant. If your in inland sweet-waters use a good Bass attractant. It only helps, and in most cases, can make the difference between catching something & catching NOTHING!
Hope this gives you some ideas? Good luck fishin’!
June 24th, 2010 at 9:58 am
Rat-L-Trap!
June 24th, 2010 at 10:31 am
in the winter, most stripers go inactive and feed very little. a deep diving crankbait with a slow retrieve should catch them
June 24th, 2010 at 11:21 am
For baits, crayfish, shad, skipjack herring, night crawlers, large shiners, or sunfish has been proven the most effective. As for lures, white doll flies or crankbaits resembling shad work great.
Hope i helped ya out.