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18lb salt from shore, 10lb braid with 20lb fluro leader


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The bite came slow and later than usual this season  with a 15 and this 18 being the largest fish so far.   Used a self built salmon steelhead rod 10ft ,3/8 -1oz lure weight  with an ABu soron reel , 10lb spiderwire braid.  1/2oz head and a 4" swim bait.   Dropping down to 10lb braid increased my casting distance about 30yds.


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the title of the post has me a little confused. is this a saltwater striper? it looks like it has the proportions of a freshwater striper. either way its a beast for 31"

i also think 10lb spiderwire has a break strength around 15lbs or so. nice fish. very nice catch on the tackle you got in on. :th:

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 saltwater stripe , introduced here in the late 60,s early 70,s  .   Became interested in fishing from shore about 12 yrs ago  and have adjusted tackle about that many times in the process finding the right set up . Most of the tailrace areas here a really shallow and rocky so light weights in the lure department are necessary .  Started building my rods from salmon steelhead blanks ,pretty close to perfect for the lighter weight lures and shallow water .


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If the tailrace is the first obstacle upstream from the sea, it would be sea-run. Stripers were indigenous to every major river on the Gulf coast, just like the East coast. Dam building below the fall line got many of them, and populations are way down, but they still exist. He's doing the same thing as guys on the James, Delaware, Hudson and Connecticut Rivers do this time of year.

 

Stripers were introduced to freshwater impoundments in the 60's and 70's, but they were there already before that. Remember the fresh water striper fishery got its start when sea run fish were trapped behind the dams of Santee Cooper and started reproducing. Prior to that, it was assumed that they had to spend a portion of time in salt water to complete their life cycle.

I have become too old to drink bourbon on the rocks. I will still drink it in the parking lot. 

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If the tailrace is the first obstacle upstream from the sea, it would be sea-run. Stripers were indigenous to every major river on the Gulf coast, just like the East coast. Dam building below the fall line got many of them, and populations are way down, but they still exist. He's doing the same thing as guys on the James, Delaware, Hudson and Connecticut Rivers do this time of year.

 

Stripers were introduced to freshwater impoundments in the 60's and 70's, but they were there already before that. Remember the fresh water striper fishery got its start when sea run fish were trapped behind the dams of Santee Cooper and started reproducing. Prior to that, it was assumed that they had to spend a portion of time in salt water to complete their life cycle.

 

thanks for dumbin it down Sweetwater.

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it's ok bro, if you just type s--lo-w it helps--lol     We never caught these fish until the state started a stocking program  after the dams blocked off the migration. Our state record held for over 50yrs and it was caught before Hydro dams were built on the Coosa river chain , this area is several dams above the first one from the Gulf .   Recently the record was broken on the warrior river at over 70lbs in a warm water discharge near a coal fired steam generating plant during  cold water conditions everywhere else on the river .    42lbs is my largest Salt to date , caught below Logan martin dam about 12 years ago .  Nice site here with loads of  helpful information


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While I freely admit that it is genetically the same as any saltwater striper, because it was caught behind a dam, it is considered a freshwater striper.

 

The shape of the fish has nothing to do with it being from fresh or salt water. All mature stripers are that shape prior to spawning. I have never caught a pre-spawn sea-run striper, but the freshwater ones have a good bit of fat in their body cavities that goes away shortly after the spawn. The fish in the thread by TipUp is a week or so post spawn, and, as you can see, has slimmed up considerably. By this time down here, the fish have no fat in their body cavities, and closely resemble what is caught up north.

 

The fish stripefromshore caught was in the process of spawning. You can tell from the reddish rash on its belly. Stripers follow through on the spawn everywhere, they just don't have the eggs survive in most freshwater situations. The marks are from the contact between the fish as the eggs and milt are released and mixed in the water. Most likely, that fish was a female, and she would have had several males very close to her fighting with each other to ensure that their milt mixed with the stream of eggs she was releasing.

 

The marks don't last long- they generally clear up within a day or so. Stripers will spawn multiple times with different partners across about a three week period. Here in South Carolina, the spawn occurs over a 15-20 day period, with a smallish push in late March followed by a series of successive releases. The reason the spawn is extended is to provide a variety of situations for the eggs to propagate. As y'all know from yoy studies in the cheasapeake, even this extended spawn does not ensure that a good year class will occur very year.

 

I wrote this r-e-a-l s-l-o-w.

I have become too old to drink bourbon on the rocks. I will still drink it in the parking lot. 

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