River Stripers

[Bass Akwards]

Body of Water: Etowah

Report Title: River Stripers

Date Fished: 8-15-14

Water Temperature: chilly

Water Clarity: stanied

Weather Conditions: Partly sunny

Report: Okuma Steve and I decided to take his river boat to the Etowah river (cartersville) to some striper fishing. Until today I have never been in a "real" river boat before, I have to say, that was a blast! That boat is like 4 wheel drive on the water. We went over shoals and submerged trees that you could walk across without a bump (for the most part). It has been awhile since I have had that much fun fishing. We or "I" caught 3 and missed a few, not bad for our first trip there. The one pictured is in the high teens or barely 20lbs. All fish were caught on live gizzard shad.

Pictures:

 

[dougiemac]

That's a bigass Striper son!

 

[Beerman]

Very nice.

 

[Cadcom]

I used to float down from the Etowah dam to Rockmart highway. (Portage around the little carpet mill dam was a pita!) Never fished it but saw some big ones down in the deep holes!

 

[Bass Akwards]

That's a bigass Striper son!

Yeah that tends to happen when I'm on the boat....OS

 

[dougiemac]

I prefer river strippers over stripers, but that's just me.

 

[BIKER13]

Great fish.

 

[CardsFan]

Nice fish! In the summer, river fishing is much more enjoyable than lake fishing for Stripers, especially when the river is COLD.

Congrats.

 

[Okuma]

 

[sonofapreacherman]

Looks like fun