No big ones yet, but yesterday I finally had some decent Striper action, using live 12" to 13" Split Tails (they just look like a big, silvery minnow). I ended up with one about 8 lbs, a 10.5 lb'er, and a 12.1 lb'er. Will post a photo of the latter two here....

Anyway, supposedly the bigger ones are going to be following closely behind. Geeez, if I were a hard-core Striper guy, I think this would be the time to take a vacation ! (but I would not trade this time of year, for my April Largemouth's :-)

BTW, I LOVE my new fish photo cameras. If your interested, I will post about them in the "everything else" section.

Great fishing to all,

Fish

Awsome pics FC.  YOUR using bait as big as alot of fish I catch.

Nice fish

The big ones come later? My biggest striper is about 2#... I need more time on the water! Nice fish!

Nice linesiders!  Were you in the Northbay/Delta area?

That half cocked smile kills me.  Nice fish man.

'Fangtastic' Fish and Pics Chris!!!  What a wonderful day!

Dan

and hey Infidel, that was the East Bay, at the mouth of the Montezuma slough, and Suisin Bay, to be exact.

BTW, I caught 7 of them yesterday, but none over 8 lbs. I only had one 13" Split Tail, and about 6, 6" to 8" ones..... Which was fun, because I scaled the Spit Tail gear all the way down to my micro-light  :-) (the same rod I use to catch the Spit Tails in the first place !)

My buddy was telling me that I was going to be messing around with that micro-light, and tie into that long sought after 40 plus ! I told him, I don't care, I'll land it anyway :-) In fact, in thinking ahead, I have actually been using my float buoy on the slack end up my anchor line :-) They want a chase ? I'll give em' a chase ! :-)

Peace,

Fish

Nice fish, great pics.

8-)

Great stripers! Congrats! 8-)

Nice! I was out fishing Coyotee Point a few months ago and I was using my UL with 2lb and a little bead head nymph to catch shiner perch for bait. While I was reeling in one of the perch, a four pounder hit it and got hooked. Hell of a fight. Bet you had fun with yours! Those SW stripers fight much harder than the land locked ones.

nice stripers /  they look like the ones  here in ct .......

I wouldn't trade those fish for YOUR April largies either.  Your largemouths are bigger than those fish. .  Very nice fish though.