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Offline JackJ

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Headed to Lewis Smith tomorrow
« on: October 13, 2008, 11:23:28 AM »
.. for some guided striper fishing.    First time ever to intentionally target stripe.

Hopefully we can catch some good ones and I can bring home some good pictures.
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Re: Headed to Lewis Smith tomorrow
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2008, 12:15:41 PM »
Cool, what size are in there? are they natural or hybrid stripers?

what methods do they use?
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Re: Headed to Lewis Smith tomorrow
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2008, 12:23:06 PM »
I think both natural and hybrid.   I hear its not uncommon to get some 30-40 lbs.

Not sure what method we are going to use to catch them.

Smith is a huge and very deep lake.

http://www.stripefishingheadquarters.com/ and http://www.rockcreekstripers.com/  has some good pictures of Smith Lake stripers.   (This is not who is taking me out)
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Re: Headed to Lewis Smith tomorrow
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2008, 03:37:48 PM »
Good luck Jack and have a good time ;)
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Re: Headed to Lewis Smith tomorrow
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2008, 04:34:50 AM »
Have fun Jack
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Re: Headed to Lewis Smith tomorrow
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2008, 07:37:43 AM »
Just saw the link :o, hope you catch a bunch of those biguns!!!!!
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Re: Headed to Lewis Smith tomorrow
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2008, 08:53:32 AM »
Have fun, and hope you catch some bigguns' !   8)
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Re: Headed to Lewis Smith tomorrow
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2008, 03:57:38 PM »
well wheres the pics?
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Re: Headed to Lewis Smith tomorrow
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2008, 04:37:15 PM »
Unfortunately (and always my luck) they were really hard to find today.

We only bagged 5, all between 9 and 13 lbs.

There are only saltwater stripe at Smith Lake I found out.   And I also found out that they don't fight near as well as the hybrids, but still a lot of fun to catch.

We caught all in 40-50 ft of water fishing in 100-200 ft of water.

Striper Guide Service on Smith Lake and Wayne Sorensen was our guide. 205-631-5772.   He said the day before they loaded the boat and found lots of schools (my luck of course)

Here are the only pics I have of the fish...

The last pic is so everyone will know what pretty much ALL of Smith looks like.
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Re: Headed to Lewis Smith tomorrow
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2008, 05:56:02 PM »
At least you didn't blank ;)
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Re: Headed to Lewis Smith tomorrow
« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2008, 07:26:42 AM »
Looks like a good time Jack.  Congrats.
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Re: Headed to Lewis Smith tomorrow
« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2008, 04:16:39 PM »
Nice bruisers yall had there JackJ! Them rascals wouldn't take your picture??

Looks more like the Ryan Creek Arm?(from the land pic.)
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Re: Headed to Lewis Smith tomorrow
« Reply #12 on: October 15, 2008, 05:00:44 PM »
JackJ: "Congrats" on your trip, nice pics, "Thanx" 4 sharin', "Take Care", L8r. James,"VATO LOCO"<;({})><
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Re: Headed to Lewis Smith tomorrow
« Reply #13 on: October 15, 2008, 07:06:57 PM »
We started at Ryans creek, but didnt find anything there.  We revisted the area several times during the day.
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Re: Headed to Lewis Smith tomorrow
« Reply #14 on: October 16, 2008, 11:59:29 AM »
Some nice looking stripes there!   Congrats!   8)


I'm sure glad you guys post pics of the big fish, so I don't forget what a large fish is supposed to look like, lol   :)
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Re: Headed to Lewis Smith tomorrow
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2008, 04:35:33 AM »
One of these days my friend, one of these days!
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Re: Headed to Lewis Smith tomorrow
« Reply #16 on: October 20, 2008, 04:34:19 PM »
Nice fish, and yep that's the way it always happens....."should have been here yesterday" ::)
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