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

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.

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.