This here is Ernest and Sharon Dudley with the big fish being what I call a wall hanger at 31pounds and a length of 43 inches. All our stripers caught this day were within swimming distance of Starkey Marina.
The stripers on Beaver Lake are still down between that 30 to 40 foot range and liking the bigger bait which seems to be the bigger shad from 5 to 13 inches long. Big bait, big fish.
Water temps are running about 73° this week so the top water bite is slowly getting better every day. When we get down below 68° that’s when the weights come off and stay off until next year.
I have not been out much here at Holiday Island this last week except to net bait, but do know some bass and crappie are as shallow as four feet because I am catching and releasing them along with shad in my cast net.
Walleye are being caught from here at the Island and up river from Beaver. Trolling, and also working a jig and minnow, are both getting in the boat with the afternoon and evening fishermen cleaning more fish here now.
I do have two trips booked here at home this week going out at three and staying out till we lose the sun, so maybe we might have a good walleye pic for you next week.
Well, I better get to work on some poles now, so till next week enjoy that jacket in the mornings and the sun in the afternoon.
Robert Johnson, fishofexcellence.com, (479) 253-2258