My sister and I fished from 1 :00 to about 5:30 and did very good on whites and had 2 hybrids. I'm guessing 30 to 35 whites, all magnums. We were in the crappie island area and left them biting in search of more hybrids. Noluck there. The hybrids we caught were 1 right at 18 " threw it back and 1 approx. 7 lbs. All caught in 18' or less. Baits were Bomber Long -A with a pet trailer. Very little traffic..Nice day!

i was out in the middle on a hump picking up a mixed bag of magnum sadies and cat found what looked like a tree on the grapf ended up whith a 12 pound hybrid on a pet spoon had him right at the boat with no net thought i had him wore out and tried to lip him caugth the line instead and broke off. retide and found the tree agian wham had two on at the same time,one was just a small magnum the other had stipped almost all the line off my abu 5000 got him turned and finally got him to the boat and lipped him in and it was the one that broke off cause he still had the other pet spoon in his mouth. man it was like seeing the biggest buck it was adrenalin rush. took a break and heard the boy won !! worked the area for almost an hour till i found the tree again and wham had two on again one got off so there was no telling what it was and the other one got tangled in the line and i was hollding one pole and trying to get the other one free finally got it loose and through it in the boat and played this fish for almost 30 min before even getting him to the boat still with no net i was able to ware him out enough to get a hand in his gills and in the boat this fish lays in a 48 in cooler with his head in one end and his tale half way up the other side.
still to pumped to even type or spell correctly sorry will get actual waits and hopefully some pictures for you guy this after noon
IT WAS A GREAT DAY ON C.C AND THE BOYS PUT STOMPING ON THE LIONS TO BOOT!!!

Congrats on a great day. Those hybrids are tons of fun aren't they ? Were you in the area I was in ? What kind of boat? We had three other boats close by but they left and we had it all to ourselves.

HURRICANE- NO I WAS ON UP THE LAKE ABOUT A MILE - I RUN A 24FT WHITE CENTER CONSOLE WITH A GREENISH BIMIY TOP AND A 200 OPTY MAX -USE TO HAVE FISHMASTER ON THR SIDE BUT I TOOK THAT OFF-IF YOU SEE ME OUT STOP AND CHAT FOR AWHILE WILL TRY TO BE BACK OUT THIS SUNDAY

I don't think I will be there this weekend because of company coming in but plan to be there next weekend. Where do you launch from?

Man, that's one whopper hybrid, Robin! I've seen 48" stripers that weighed nearly 50-lbs. Bet that sucker was all that and then some, huh....nice goin'! I'da like to seen that fight!

Plugger....If it was "48", it WAS a striper. Either way, it was one heck of a fish!

Think he meant 48" cooler....

Hear any good "fish-tales" lately!!!!!!

The one that got away!!!!!!!!!!

G

He referred to it as in a 48 in cooler...

that means he kept it as it was over 18 inches plugger see above post, head was in one end and tail was half way up the side in the other.

doubt anybody has caught a pure striper in CC in a long time, they were stocked many years ago, but they hybrids have been the fish of choice for stocking there for some time.

We need to know about your cooler. 48 inches long? 48 Quart? If your cooler is 48 inches long that fish had to be way over 12 lbs. I would think.

I am satisfied that it is a 48 ouart cooler, there are millions of them out there, forgot waht they measure, but I have a 90 and a 100 I use and the do not even measure up to 48 inches.

Nice fish regardless, sounds like it was at least 24 inches and maybe more.

Dang, a typo or something else causes a stir, it was a 48 quart cooler, i bet a dollar to the donut. Is this really that confusing?

He wrote he was too pumped up to spell or type correctly in the same post,,,,,go re read it....

Steve,

I caught a 1lb striper (thats 1, not 11) in july trollin on large drop off north side of Crappie island, before the cove @ Pinnacle

I havent heard of anyone else cathin a Striper @ CC lately.....definitely a striper.....he was a little dude, though

Dang, Here we go again. I thought 48 qt myself. Anyway hope to see you on the water. Good luck.

Weird that you got a striper, I thought they were not stocked in there since 1974 and if they were and it was one pound, then either it got dropped in there as an undersized fish, was mixed in with hybrids when stocked, they have reproduced in the lake, or it was a genetic freak, like the L4 that is in there, or it was a yellow bass,,,,,who knows, you know what you caught, but it was and is my understanding that stripers have not been put in the lake in a long long time.


Not doubting you at all.

Sure reads to be "..48 in cooler..." to me, Shadbury. No mistake. I have a 150-quart Igloo that measures 38" end to end. Thought maybe he had an upright freezer laying on its back. Just giving him the benefit of the doubt, no "stir" intended. Anyway, haven't caught anything big enough in a few years to be able to use that 150-quart Igloo.

BTW, I did know from reading his post that he kept it. I think the tail half way up the side of the cooler sorta clued us in, didn't it?

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