Feather River Stripers - 4/30

[Hamachi_Kama]

Got a chance to fish the upper feather with my buddy James and didn't say no. Started out bright and early to make the half hour run....10 minutes into our fishin, I hook up with a nice one that came unbuttoned and then it was James's turn, a chunk that took a hair raiser:





Continued on for about 2 hours for the next bite, which in this case, happen to be a nice smallie that ate my 128 pointer:



Skunks off, even though it wasn't the right kind per se. Tryed hard for another 4 hours...By mid afternoon, I'm trying to think of bright ideas to get bit. Striper eat lamprey eel up in this part of the river, so I tied on the closest thing I had to an eel in my box - a T-rigged 7" pumkpin senko.....wouldn't you know it, 20 or so casts into it and its fish on for me:



Turned out to be a nice #14. Stoked!:





All in all, a fantastic day on the river, despite high flows and 25kts+ of wind all day. And thanks for the invite James - it was awesome to let somebody else do all the hard work and just fish.

[Troutman65]

Good call on matching what the linesides are eating this time of year . Payed off nicely for you . Nice catch . Thanks for the post

[cutbait]

Great, now a run of T rigged 7 inch senko's will be bought out in So-cal..

You did it again Tomo... I'm speechless

[steve_o]

With the two of you on the same boat this is exactly what I would expect to read. Great pictures of two righteous dudes out slaying...

[TroutOnly]

nice catch,theres a old guy down here that trolls u-rigs with lures that look like eels sometimes he really kills,,,,,,,,,,,,,t/o,,,,,,,

[Shock]

Nice!!! Thats one sweet lookin Striper!!

Keep on gettin em!!

[yolo]

nice catch,theres a old guy down here that trolls u-rigs with lures that look like eels sometimes he really kills,,,,,,,,,,,,,t/o,,,,,,,

There's a middle aged guy that has been using them on a jighead or T-rig in the duct. The 6" Cabelas AquaGlow in albino or smoke pepper shad is killer eel like. That's what I have been using for eel and leech imitation. I also have a custom made eel with a scrounger type lip molded in that just looks amazing but I need low flow to work it correctly. I bet it would be killer in a lake environment. Sorry no pic of that one per the manufacturer. The maker actually only makes it for his buddies in NorCal for striper fishing the delta.




Hamachi_Kama, that was a pretty cool report. Glad I stumbled on it. I have never clicked the northern section of the forum before. Will have to check in more often.

[Hamachi_Kama]

There's a middle aged guy that has been using them on a jighead or T-rig in the duct. The 6" Cabelas AquaGlow in albino or smoke pepper shad is killer eel like. That's what I have been using for eel and leech imitation. I also have a custom made eel with a scrounger type lip molded in that just looks amazing but I need low flow to work it correctly. I bet it would be killer in a lake environment. Sorry no pic of that one per the manufacturer. The maker actually only makes it for his buddies in NorCal for striper fishing the delta.




Hamachi_Kama, that was a pretty cool report. Glad I stumbled on it. I have never clicked the northern section of the forum before. Will have to check in more often.

One of the things I love most about plug fishin for striped bass is that they can be taken on such a wide array of baits. Although they can turn off and on in the blink of an eye, when they are on, it usually doesn't take much to get them to bite. But on the other hand, I've pulled up on massive bird schools on the D pushin shad up onto the rip rap - you can throw everything at them and they are just keyed in on shad - Frustrating, yet amazing at the same time.

[trail blazer]

HK Your stuff ROCKS!!!NICEEEEEEE