Any stripers in.....Nevada?

[nightfighter]

Seems I heard of stripers in lakes of Nevada, and since I'll be passing through Vegas on my way to Houston at month's end, I was wondering what the board might know about this. I know they're in the lakes of Indiana, because I've seen Benzy's pics.

Can anyone shed some light here?

Thanx

[JohnR]

Fiftys and Sixtys supposedly come out of Lake Mead just outside Vegas... Not exactly surffishing though

[Clammer]

Where the @#$% have you been //set a date &out of the woodwork comes N/F==============

[nightfighter]

Hi Mike. Hi all. Sorry to have missed this past weekend. Kids, new business plan, scheduling, blah,blah, blah...

Good here, hows by you?

[Clammer]

Great & overweight

[BigFish]

I don't think they get that big out there JohnR, (I could be wrong) but the striper or "wiper" fishing as they call it, due to the fact that the striped bass and the white bass mate out there causing the "wiper" anyway, the fishing out there is supposed to be awesome. My brother lives out there and has his boat on Lake Mead and Lake Havasu all the time!

[UserRemoved1]

they fight like chit don't waste ya time.
All the muscle and fight of a 4" pogie

[Mike P]

Lake Mead is one of the best freshwater striper fisheries in the US. If you can, look up a guide out there named Russ Comeau (aka "Bassdozer" of wmi/SOL fame). He moved "temporarily" to Lake Mead from Long Island a few years ago, and at last report, he's still there

[NIB]

I also remember reading bout a 68#er that was caught in the colorado river a few yrs back..towed the guy around in his canoe

[JohnR]

Originally posted by BigFish
I don't think they get that big out there JohnR, (I could be wrong) but the striper or "wiper" fishing as they call it, due to the fact that the striped bass and the white bass mate out there causing the "wiper" anyway, the fishing out there is supposed to be awesome. My brother lives out there and has his boat on Lake Mead and Lake Havasu all the time!

Big Fish - they get enourmous out there. And provided they don't get seriously depleted, the world record striper will likely be a freshwater fish in the next 20 years - and Meade is a possibbility.

Hey NF - I just realized that you've been sniffin too much glue again. HTH do you go thru Nevada to get to Houston?? Yeh, they'll have more than one problem (you're not getting hitched at a "chapel" are ya??)

[BigFish]

Hey....I said I could be wrong!

[fishweewee]

I would feel weird pulling a landlocked striper/wiper out of a lake. "Come here ya little sugarbooger..."

[JohnR]

Oh, these aren't Wipers, they're full blown Strip'ed Bass growing where there is very little than can compete with them on the food chain...

[Clammer]

Is N/F getting married ???????????????/

[nor-easter]

I believe the IGFA would set a Fresh Water Record seperate from a Striper from the Salt, as they do on most all species.
They do have a reputation for fighting hard but what would one expect, fishing with fresh water tackle!

Seriously though, I suspect they don't use as heavy a tackle set up as we do out in the Rips and Beaches of the Cape and Islands.

[Bernzy]

Originally posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
they fight like chit don't waste ya time.
All the muscle and fight of a 4" pogie

Just to clear this up a bit.......
A Wiper or Hybrid Striped Bass are created by mixing the milt from a pure strain Striper and the eggs of a White Bass in the controlled environment of a hatchery. The offspring grow quickly as they are eating machines. They are stocked in specific waters to control the massive quantities of the Shad and Alewives populations.

The state record out here in Indiana is around 20lbs., but they do get bigger. IMHO, pound for pound they hit harder and fight harder than a Striped Bass, fresh or saltwater.

Bernzy

[Goose]

Originally posted by Clammer
Is N/F getting married ???????????????/

Yeah riiiiiight

[Raven]

the lines are almost always broken on a lake striper...and they're in the 40 to 60 pound class as close as penn state. In my opinion
they should be called the most important fish in the whole U.S.A.

the sweetwater bass tournaments had trouble releasing lethargic
largemouth bass after the weigh- ins because striped bass were waiting to gobble them up on several lakes. It takes a pretty big
striper to eat a five pound largemouth bass.

[Raven]

if your going to huston - lake huston is stocked with stripers and is 20 miles north east of the city..... if your driving south on route 35 , east of it is lake texoma. its shaped like a dragon and has trophy sized lake stripers not to mention it'll be alot warmer than anywhere you'd find in nevada.
qoute: In Texas, stripers in excess of 50 pounds have been landed. Although specimens exceeding 100 pounds have been caught in saltwater, to date a 66-pounder was the largest individual reported from inland waters.

http://www.4-seventhheaven.com/laketexoma.htm

[tlapinski]

i have always wanted to target landlocked stripers, as well as left-coast stripers. it has intrigued me since i first read about the transplanting of stripers to the pacific. i think i read the story in the late John N. Cole's book, "Striper, A Story of Fish and Man." (i actually did a book report back in high school on that book ) i have a friend that lives in san fransisco. i may be making that trip soon enough!

so, John, how about a "Cali-Leg" or a "Landlocked-Leg".

[fishweewee]

Originally posted by t.lapinski
i have a friend that lives in san fransisco. i may be making that trip soon enough!

Thuuuuper.

[tlapinski]

weewee, not that kind of friend. SHE goes to mount holyoke.

[chris L]

who is holyoke ? I have heard of corn holio . heh heh heh

[tlapinski]

Originally posted by chris L
I have heard of corn holio . heh heh heh

are you threatening me? t.p. for my bunghole!

[JohnR]

Originally posted by t.lapinski
SHE goes to mount holyoke.

So she still is in the right place, eh?

A few years back I was setting up a network in Sacramento and shipped my rods out . I had very little time to fish but for a few short hours I took a break and went Striper fishing in the Sacramento River Delta and caught some school bass - in February. Also hooked into a Sturgeon for 5 minutes

[chris L]

no bung here ! we dont travel down the back roads , its full of rednecks .

[Fishpart]

I've been thinking about striper fishing Lake Wallenpaupack (PA) in the summer. Unfortunately it's vitually all boat fishing but apparently the stripers pin the bait in the coves and go to town They have herrign int he bait shops all summer.......... About a 4 hour ride from Rhody...........

[BigFish]

Pretty sure Bernzy is right....,the landlocked stripers do not get much bigger than about 20 lbs. If anyone has documentation backing up the state records for landlocked striper, I would like to see it. Just curious, not trying to say or prove anyone is wrong, just going by what I have heard!

[Bernzy]

Here's a landlocked striper from Kentucky. It weighs about 56lbs.
They do get bigger!

[chris L]

kansas 43.8 # wilson reservoir

nevada 60.14# lake mohave

I believe bernzy is talking hybrids