Thread: Murray Striper Fishing... any reports?

Originally Posted by jnbwolf

Heading down way early in the morning to try some striper fishing. Any reports out of the lake. This will be my second time on that water. ThAnks


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If trends are the same as years past. They are moving up the lake toward the Saluda River. I used to catch them in the river channels around Bombing Island. In May, fish out of Buffalo Creek. Go out to the main body and you will see a house on the point with a dock right on the tip of that point. (On your right headed away from the marina) Find the river channel and we fished at night in depths between 25-25 ft using large minnows and live herring. Hopefully those trends are still the same!

Sent from my Pixel 3a XL using Crappie.com Fishing mobile app

25-35 fow

Originally Posted by jp8848

If trends are the same as years past. They are moving up the lake toward the Saluda River. I used to catch them in the river channels around Bombing Island. In May, fish out of Buffalo Creek. Go out to the main body and you will see a house on the point with a dock right on the tip of that point. (On your right headed away from the marina) Find the river channel and we fished at night in depths between 25-25 ft using large minnows and live herring. Hopefully those trends are still the same!

Sent from my Pixel 3a XL using Crappie.com Fishing mobile app

Sent from my Pixel 3a XL using Crappie.com Fishing mobile app

Been 3 weeks ago but we caught a bucketfull of 12-16" Stripers in 30 FOW around Bomb Island. Not a single perch which was odd. We could not break the 21" bracket either. I'd guess about 40 fish in 3 hours.
I use a 3/4 oz. Blue Flexit spoon with a dressed treblealmost exclusively.

Fish are really one end of the lake to the other right now. I’d say the bulk of the fish are mid lake and good numbers in Ballantine area. The herring spawn bite is on if you like/now how to fish shallow.

Appreciate the help. I needed it yesterday more than I thought. Left the house at 3:30 and drove down yesterday morning to be on the water before sunrise. Fished from light until 4:30 and caught one Striper, 1 channel cat, and had one break off. We had trouble marking any fish all day. We put in at ramp 4 and fished from dryer island up to both branches of the Saluda. We used live herring, on 4 planer boards and two down rigged toward bottom off the back. We asked two different bait men and one said middle towArd the dam and the other said middle toward the river sections. Both said they were scatterd which I will fully agree with! Ha

Just wasn’t our day to catch , but enjoyed a beautiful day (after the rain and wind passed) on a new lake learning it.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk