Stocking Stripers in Sweet Water - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

cow tamer · 03-12-2006, 01:10 PM

Can you transfer schoolies to a fresh water lake, in the hopes of starting a landlocked fishery?

"uffah!!" · 03-12-2006, 01:43 PM

Very very interesting!!!

shadow · 03-12-2006, 02:11 PM

I don't believe that would be a responsable thing to do not to mention illegal.

pete santini · 03-12-2006, 02:18 PM

Mystic lakes medford has all the freshwater stripers you want to catch yearound.

cow tamer · 03-12-2006, 05:59 PM

I know this has been done successfully down south. The cold winter temperatures might not support it this far north, unless the lake was deep enough. Todays In-Fisherman TV show showed them catching them in Arkansas.

mikecc · 03-12-2006, 06:07 PM

Not legal in MA but it has been done. A friend got a 34" keeper ice fishing.

MAC · 03-12-2006, 06:12 PM

One problem you are forgeting is that it is illegal to keep a striper bass under 28". It is illegal to introduce fish into inland waters.

PNG · 03-12-2006, 06:18 PM

Its called a Malicious Introduction and its taken very seriously by da law.

striper97 · 03-12-2006, 07:13 PM

Big Stripers above the Lawrence Dam on the Merrimack. I've seen the video taken by a guy named Russ Vitallo. We're talking 25 lb. fish. He was a guest speeker at the Andover Library a few weeks ago.

producetim · 03-12-2006, 07:32 PM

someone pulled a 34" striper out of saratago lake through the ice last month

tattoobob · 03-12-2006, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by striper97

Big Stripers above the Lawrence Dam on the Merrimack. I've seen the video taken by a guy named Russ Vitallo. We're talking 25 lb. fish. He was a guest speeker at the Andover Library a few weeks ago.

A freind of mine was shad fishing (without me) and he was under the lowell dam and landed a 46 inch and a 41 inch striper on 6 pound test. it took him ove 45 minutes for the 46 inch to land

lurch · 03-12-2006, 07:54 PM

I have caught hundreds of stripers in Lowell with some of them above dam. Now I am not sure if the fish make their way back south but that is one hell of a trip if they do! There is a huge hole ~50+feet in a certain location so maybe they hold up there over the winter. The fish I have marked were staked like cord wood but to get a boat there is a tough thing to do....I know i was tired from getting a small boat there.

I go fishing in lowell for smallies and I use my ultra light combo. When you hook into one it is fun...keeper striper on 4 lb test, almost got spooled but got it in.

With the warm WX I should have tried for some fish.

lurch · 03-12-2006, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by striper97

Big Stripers above the Lawrence Dam on the Merrimack. I've seen the video taken by a guy named Russ Vitallo. We're talking 25 lb. fish. He was a guest speeker at the Andover Library a few weeks ago.

Mr V was my old grade school gym teacher. He taught at a magnet school in lowell and started a class to teach the kids how to fish.

hq2 · 03-13-2006, 11:33 AM

Yeah, I've caught some in Lowell below the dam, on spinners when I was fishing for smallies. I've had a couple of big boys spool my 6 lb line; they got downstream, and I couldn't turn 'em. This year I think I'm going to try my saltwater rod and throw some big spinners and see what I get.

Fishpart · 03-13-2006, 12:59 PM

The boys down Tennesee don't like them. They claim that the stripers are killing their largemouth

Why go after LMB that weigh up to 10 pounds when you can fish for fifties??????

striper97 · 03-13-2006, 03:45 PM

Russ is retiring at the end of the year. He's been running that class for a while now, it's a great program for the inner city kids, they'll miss him.