they're getting to be respectable size now.  if i could catch these bad boys all year long, i'm pretty sure i'd give up bass fishing (almost) entirely. ;D  what fun!  once you've caught a few, there's just nothing else that compares to the way a decent-sized striper hits and fights.  addictive is an understatement.

Don't wanna give away your honey hole I see???? 

Amazing fish. Simply amazing. I wouldn't want to share any secrets either  ;D

That's a great fish. I wish my striper trip panned out the way it was supposed to so I could have had a fish like that.

Beautiful background.

Nice fish Paul, and to be able to catch it in that wild snow storm going on behind you.

If you don't mind me asking Paul what are you catching them on?

Nice!  That's a hoss.

WTG Paul, that's a line stretcher right there  and looks like you had a lot of blowing snow headed your way, brrrrr! 

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Nice fish, Paul and I agree.  Stripers and Hybrids are a handful compared to Black Bass.

As much as I love my salmonoids here in the Great Lakes, i wish they'd gone the striper route.

Paul, have you tried Duck River yet?

If you don't mind me asking Paul what are you catching them on?

jerkbaits, crankbaits, and swimbaits.  a few on live bait a few weeks ago, but now catching the right bait is proving to be difficult and more trouble than it's worth. 

That's a beauty! Paul are you fishing near a dam spillway? Couple of my buddies & I used to fish right up to watts bar dam before 9/11 when there was access. Most of ours were caught ticking the bottom with live bait but they hit surface plugs readily at first & last light.

Beautiful fish! Oh, by the way, I know where that spot is. It's a cove off of Acid Trip Lake, near mushroomville. ;D

i'd recognize that place from anywhere.

TVA did some amazing things down there.   This makes my wipers this winter that I thought were solid look like fry.

Wish we had the real deal.  Nice fish. 

That's a beauty! Paul are you fishing near a dam spillway? Couple of my buddies & I used to fish right up to watts bar dam before 9/11 when there was access. Most of ours were caught ticking the bottom with live bait but they hit surface plugs readily at first & last light.

no, i'm not near a dam.  but i fully intend to try that some this year.  i have  been told that the action below the dam at pickwick is fast and furious at times.   gotta get me some of that.

I love striper fishing.  Nice one Paul.

That's a beauty! Paul are you fishing near a dam spillway? Couple of my buddies & I used to fish right up to watts bar dam before 9/11 when there was access. Most of ours were caught ticking the bottom with live bait but they hit surface plugs readily at first & last light.

no, i'm not near a dam. but i fully intend to try that some this year. i have been told that the action below the dam at pickwick is fast and furious at times. gotta get me some of that.

Paul, do you live in West TN?

yep.  carroll county.

yep. carroll county.

Your not too far from me then.  For some reason I always thought you were in East TN.