Reply With Quotetry not to holler too loud. if i hear you i may hook my boat up and come down to :DOriginally Posted by CrappieKidd
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Wateree Stripers
I will be out there Thursday. If you see two fellas hooping and a hollering in a Basstracker Pro Crappie 175 stop and say hello. From the post I see Dutchmans or Colonol's Creek a place to start.
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try not to holler too loud. if i hear you i may hook my boat up and come down to :D
listen with your eyes---its the only way to beleive what you hear...
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Since I broke my ankle I haven't been able to get out there. Couple buddies went Tuesday and didn't have any luck. They fished from daylight till nearly dark and saw two stripers caught by other boats. Their report was not good. They tried downlining and tolling. Hope you guys do better. The warm weather may have turned them off. Hope not.
Slabmaster II
with all the stripers that have been caught the last month there probably gone. Why do they keep it a ten fish limit with no size restriction. With the bait population there those stripers would grow big pretty fast. But maybe then there would be no bait, who knows. You guys sure were crushing them for a while though. Looked like fun.
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the weather change probably had more to do with the slowing bite than extinction. i think the limit for sc striper is 10 fish, with it being lowered in lakes where a trophy fishery can be managed. at wateree because there is not the deep water to support a trophy fish program the state limit of 10 fish applies. you arent gonna catch the big boys at wateree you will at murray or some the other deep water lakes but many folks are satisfied to catch a limit of 10 striper than they would be to catch a smaller limit of bigger fish on murray. what suprises me about wateree tho is there is not a size limit imposed. i dont know what the reasoning behind that is unless they want wateree to get a lot of pressure to take some of it off the other lakes. or they want folks to come to wateree it help the lakes economy. maybe someone with more knowledge on that issue can help us out. it would be interesting to find out.
listen with your eyes---its the only way to beleive what you hear...
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Its been a 10 fish with no size limit as long as as I have been fishing it for stripers since 1989. I dont know when the 10 fish limit was put into effectI think Rango is right,not really enough deep water to grow em real big,gets to hot in the summertime.Once in a while you "hear of" someone catching a 20 pound fish but I havent ever saw one.
HEY,,WATCH THAT YELLOW ROD
Slabmaster
no offense...
but i would imagine the geniuses in government aren't really putting that much thought into the fishery. i bet it's more of a knee-jerk management philosophy, that is 'if enough people bitch and moan about the fishery being toast, then they will change the management of the fishery'
Slabmaster
I've been friends with one of the fisheries biologists that was responsible for striped bass being stocked in Lake Wateree. Their fish surveys showed that Lake Wateree had the largest standing crop of fish per acre of any lake in the state except Lake Greenwood. Most of this biomass was forage fish (threadfin and gizzard shad). Most of the forage predators (crappies, largemouth bass, gar, and channel catfish) could not make good use of the larger sized gizzard shad that were prevalent. The goals for stocking striped bass were to provide an additional sport fishery without greatly impacting existing fisheries. Essentially, there was an unused size class of forage fish to support striped bass.
As pointed out in a previous post, the shallow waters combined with hot summers makes Lake Wateree marginal habitat for striped bass. Large fish particularly are susceptible to lower dissolved oxygen levels found in summer. The few deeper holes and other refuges support some larger fish as noted by the limited number of larger fish that are infrequently caught. The result is a "put and take" fishery. The ten-fish, no-size limit management matches the fishery potential of Lake Wateree pretty well.
Another interesting result of stocking striped bass is the effect on the size classes of the population of gizzard shads. Later surveys showed that a greater percentage of the forage was of smaller size-classes. This could actually benefit other predatory fish by making suitable prey more abundant for them.
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