Wateree Strippers

[Catdaddy]

Y'all just got some more. I think he said 70000.

Sent from my motorola edge plus 5G UW (2022) using Tapatalk

[Highstrung]

Hopefully one day they'll be able to bred them to sniff out live baiters, so they can all be caught properly on top water.

[centurian]

Hopefully one day they'll be able to bred them to sniff out live baiters, so they can all be caught properly on top water.

I like to catch them both ways. Used to drag em with the Little Fishie at the Wateree

[WhitewaterDuck]

Hopefully one day they'll be able to bred them to sniff out live baiters, so they can all be caught properly on top water.

Dad and I used to absolutely slay 'em after he'd get home from work back in the early to mid 80's. We'd troll rebel double deeps bouncing them off a sandy bottom along a ledge at the north end of ski alley, and wel'd free the spool and run to casting distance and throw striper strikers at them when they'd come up busting shad. You could just about set your watch to that first eruption. One day when we were trolling and waiting on the topwater action, dad's rod went from the pretty strong bend that those double-deeps would impart to arrow straight...he started cranking down to get the slack out and catch up with the fish when the fish decided to go the other way. His rod turned into a damn donut, it made a sound like a bullwhip, and it was over in less than a second. Once he got his plug reeled in, he was missing the back treble hooks, and the bottom guide rings on his rod had popped off the guide seats and were just hanging on the line. I'd love to know how big that joker was. The good-old days.

[willk]

I haven't caught a rockfish in five years probably. I used to try and get on the river 2-3 days a week when I was in Camden. I miss it.

[Highstrung]

I thought about going up river from our ramp and going after them about a week ago.. it's been a bit since I've chased them on the river or even waded out there across from our place. I only chased them a few times on the lake last year. The sound of them breaking the top after the silence of an afternoon rain fall just gets me going.

[willk]

I thought about going up river from our ramp and going after them about a week ago.. it's been a bit since I've chased them on the river or even waded out there across from our place. I only chased them a few times on the lake last year. The sound of them breaking the top after the silence of an afternoon rain fall just gets me going.

Damn right.

[JimmyD714]

I swear everyone on this site calls them strippers. Makes me wonder why yall's phones are auto correcting it...

HS - you aren't wrong. For a long time now they've been my favorite freshwater fish to catch, and to eat. I look and listen for surface disturbance, paddle there as quickly as I can and burn some swimbaits a foot or 2 under the water. They hit them like a linebacker.

Last year on Greenwood I had my 5yr old daughter in my lap and she got to fight 2 after I hooked them, with my hand on the rod to make sure she didn't lose it. She couldn't stop laughing as she struggled to even turn the reel handle. I think she's already developed the same opinion about those fish as me. Every time I take her she asks, "Daddy can we try to catch the striped bass?"

[centurian]

I swear everyone on this site calls them strippers. Makes me wonder why yall's phones are auto correcting it...

Strippers/stripers Both are a lot of fun.

[Kioti]

I swear everyone on this site calls them strippers. Makes me wonder why yall's phones are auto correcting it...

HS - you aren't wrong. For a long time now they've been my favorite freshwater fish to catch, and to eat. I look and listen for surface disturbance, paddle there as quickly as I can and burn some swimbaits a foot or 2 under the water. They hit them like a linebacker.

Last year on Greenwood I had my 5yr old daughter in my lap and she got to fight 2 after I hooked them, with my hand on the rod to make sure she didn't lose it. She couldn't stop laughing as she struggled to even turn the reel handle. I think she's already developed the same opinion about those fish as me. Every time I take her she asks, "Daddy can we try to catch the striped bass?"

Yeah I thought it was going to be a thread about the Beaver's Den.

[Sportin' Woodies]

They both smell the same

[joshua2]

They both smell the same

Cotton Candy???

[JimmyD714]

And I suppose being entertained by either of them will cost money

[Black Bart]

And here I was thinkin' the 'Shire's all prim and proper; turns out y'all got hoes just like err' body else.

[jwilliams]

Wateree stripers have a distinct smell. Not sure about wateree strippers

[Highstrung]

That place ain't been the same since the sounds of "Harold get your bat" went away.. I'd stop by once a year when Patty had it, but preferred the Riverdeck back then.

[Kioti]

That place ain't been the same since the sounds of "Harold get your bat" went away.. I'd stop by once a year when Patty had it, but preferred the Riverdeck back then.

I never got hit with it but he probably threatened me a few times.

[Highstrung]

Kioti, yep.. I was pretty proud. Caught him on a soft bait. I found throwing an old adw bait, with a single hook was the way to go for me.. in a hurry I could flip them off quickly

Haha, yep Tater

I mostly just chased white bass from the early to mid 80s with my dad up there, until alone into the mid 90s. Then they went away, then fully on rockfish

[Highstrung]

I've caught bigger ones in the river, my largest in the lake was around 20 lbs.. it was our first year of marriage, and we were living up there full time. I didn't have the internet, cell phone, nor a working camera.. i caught it on a ledge near my house, near the old Saling Club.. I beached my boat and ran inside with it to show my wife, she was just getting out of the shower.. and she didn't care as much as I thought she would.

[Kioti]

I've caught bigger ones in the river, my largest in the lake was around 20 lbs.. it was our first year of marriage, and we were living up there full time. I didn't have the internet, cell phone, nor a working camera.. i caught it on a ledge near my house, near the old Saling Club.. I beached my boat and ran inside with it to show my wife, she was just getting out of the shower.. and she didn't care as much as I thought she would.

I'd consider 20lbs a giant on the lake but I'm not an expert.