Y’all might end up getting a visit from Dave Micus, if you keep showing pics like that.
Ed
hey Dave, come on down!!
See Joe, told you you could use the furled leaders! 8)
Okay, Okay…I’ll try one of the furled leaders. Like almost all fly tackle, including flies, those leaders just look too nice to mess up, what with the (bad) luck I often have with snags and wind knots.
That is another HUGE striper! Big enough it could maybe eat the Kansas state record striper (which I think is around 35 lbs.). Unbelievable.
Joe
“Better small than not at all.”
Joe
Those guys were using tuna poppers, saltwater tackle, to entice these big boys. I may have to come up with some massive multi-hook fly to drift downstream like a dead shad.
Robin, I hope to get over there during the Christmas break, I plan on using my spey rod and a sinking leader.
Great Mike!
There are a series of small rock islets midstream. The last ones are surrounded by guts and the channel runs through. Good fishing there (dang it now everyone on FAOL will be headed there…wait a sec, that’s not a bad idea!)
this fly, the Cat’s Whisker, in gray, has been killing them. Size 8 or 10 for maximum hookup-age.
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Robin,
Does the “Cat’s Whisker” fly have an actual live, hissing cat incorporated into its design? Looking at the size of the stripers in this thread’s photos, they could actually swallow one!
Joe
“Better small than not at all.”
Interestingly, the stripers that we were catching were all on #10 Cat’s Whiskers. (gray)
The scene is that these fish were all washed through back in early summer and have eaten up most all the small bait. Now about all that seems to be left are big old 12" shad and the only ones that can eat them are the big boys (reference that whopper in the image) Those monsters were caught on tuna poppers.
Scott tagged this one under the dam yesterday on a six weight
Kinda serious, kinda kiddin’ but Scott is booking trips.
Totally serious, y’all are invited to head this way!
What a fish! (pant, pant, whine, whine!)
I for one would dearly love to. But right now I’m so poor it’s all I can manage just to pay attention.
Joe
I feel your pain, I truly do. It’s funny that this fishery seems to have just popped up. Hoping it lasts a while so you and the rest of the gang can make it.
It’s here
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Wow, on a six wgt…I would still have to clean up after. He would be pulling my short a$$ around like a 150 horse Johnson
Stripers are still on. Not sure how long they’ll last but folks are still reporting landing large numbers of fish there below the dam.
Here’s one that I caught in the Arkansas River a few weeks ago
My buddy Ronnie caught this flathead catfish the same day
Steve, I’d rather catch that flathead than the striper you’re holding.
I would not mind either on the end of the line.
Rick
Sweet pullin’ there with both those fishes.
I just got back from the Arkansas River. I only got to fish for about 1 1/2 hours before the water started to rise, but managed to catch 5 stripers and 2 hybrids. A nice Christmas gift from the fish gods!
Steve