Do you think a freshwater striped bass forum would work here at striped-bass.com ? My proximity to the Atlantic Ocean puts me in the "salt water" category, but I would think a lot of fisher folks that reside and fish the fresh water variety of stripers might enjoy comming here and talking about the lakes and rivers they fish, techniques as well as other fresh water tactics.

I just about fish soley freshwater for the first 2 months of the season. I'd play.

Come on Steve...this is a striper forum....not a saltwater striper forum! So why break it into 2 forums? Are there any fresh water stripers/wipers or hybrids in Brockton I do not know about??

I don't see alot of activity taking place in that forum. A general freshwater forum isn't a bad idea though.

I would think our newest member might have some insight to share....maybe guide us through this new aspect of fishing.

Or spam our way through it?:smash:

Say it isn't so...I have alot to learn:wall:. Learning is what keeps me going so it's all good.

Larry l

S/B in a couple of ponds in taunton <><><:fishin:

Really? I did not know that??:uhuh:

been / there done that :;

but just about impossiable to catch / unless you cheat & use live bait ;;:wall:

A few ponds on the Cape and one on the south shore. They have been caught in the Charles, Mystic and Taunton rivers above the tidal areas.

Got the music theme for freshwater striper forum:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=60244057

Can't wait to get out there gen' with my trailer park homies!

I watched that video strictly for the bikini's!:drool: The rest of it....well just say it's not my favorite genre of music.

seems to me that Wipers act more finicky like smallies

seems to me that Wipers act more finicky like smallies


When I worked out in KS a few years ago i tried my luck in some of the big reservoirs out there. They were hard to find and catch but once I got the hang of what they took it was fun. I got them on spinners and small pearl storm shads. Good sport on freshwater gear. From my limited understanding the only way to get stripers to reproduce was to cross breed them with the resident white bass species otherwise stripers as we know them here could live in freshwater but not reproduce. I could be wrong on that though.

all i hear about lately is people i know catchin what we know as shorts in freshwater lakes ...but in ARKANSAS they have 40 lb fish and up.... so ,,, it isn't all dinks.... but the thing is, without tides and surf and the whole range of saltwater bait...it's a whole new ball game and the methods differ

i've read that stripers eat freshwater bass after they've been released following a bass tourney because from captivity they go back in sluggish.

LOL!!!

After watching that video...I suddenly have an urge to fish for stripah's in the sweet water. :).

Raven, I've caught fish out of the CT River way out in South Hadley that have had smallies in their bellies on more than one occasion.

I just about fish soley freshwater for the first 2 months of the season. I'd play.
IF this comes about you could be the forum leader & I would post there in the spring:fishin:

Don't see any stripes, but that is one BIG bass:

Man ties record for biggest largemouth bass

DANIA BEACH, Fla. — A man was being credited with tying the 77-year-old world record for catching the biggest largemouth bass. The International Game Fish Association announced Friday that it had confirmed the 22-pound, 4-ounce fish caught by Manabu Kurita. The Florida-based group said Kurita caught the fish July 2 on Lake Biwa, Japan's largest lake.

Kurita's fish tied the record of George Perry, who caught his bass on Georgia's Montgomery Lake on June 2, 1932.

Kurita used 25-pound test line and a live blue gill as bait.