Hybrid striped bass are easy right now

Man that sounds fun. We used to troll for them behind a party barge in about 16 foot of water by the old light house.
I heard they lost a bunch of fish when they opened the locks for flooding.
I guess they restocked.
We had a camp in the bow across from the yacht club. They would hit top water some evenings.

Thanks for sharing your success and encouraging others to join.

I fish for stripers on Lake Texoma several times a week.

This summer has been off on Texoma. There are more stripers in Texoma than any other freshwater fishery in the country. 10 man limit. I'm friends with a few guides and they're working hard to get close to limits, when most times, it's a near certainty.

Last year I'd limit a 3 man in an hour. This year, hit and miss. The guides have even resorted to trolling sassy shads or A rigs to locate fish.

I'm going to go out tomorrow, try to find some topwater action on a pencil popper then try vertical jigging slab spoons. That or live shad is usually the ticket in the summer mornings.

ETA--usually the guides (even the live bait guyides) hate on people trolling umbrella rigs, but they're having to do it about half the time this summer. I have a few sets of Captain Mack's 9 bait umbrella rigs and they catch fish. Plenty of doubles on an umbrella rig. But to me that's not fishing, that's just cruising around while occasionally reeling fish into the boat.

You have stripers/striped bass, then white bass/sand bass and then hybrid/wipers. The hybrids are stripers and white bass hence the name wipers. They fight hard for their size.

If you clean all the red out, then it's one of the best freshwater fish you can eat in my opinion. I clean a LOT of stripers all year long. There's a trick you can do where you grab the filet and pinch the red at the tail end. Then you can rip out 90% of the red just with your fingers.

My wife has it down perfectly.

Also, some of the best catfish bait is striper rib cages along with the red meat on the hook. Blues can't resist it.

Had a lot of fun with those in bayou St. John in the 80s

i've been talking about going to troll for striped bass in False River during the summer. for those that troll for them and willing to help a newbie out, what type of baits/methods are you using?

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've been talking about going to troll for striped bass in False River during the summer. for those that troll for them and willing to help a newbie out, what type of baits/methods are you using?

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Captain Mack's umbrella rigs. Get the largest one with either 7 or 9 wires. Holds a bunch of swim jigs. Also order the umbrella rig keeper/retriever thing. It helps retrieving the rigs if you get snagged up. Their line depth chart is pretty accurate, but I'd troll with 65 lbs braid or lead core if you need to go deeperr or downriggers. You really shouldn't need to go deeper though.

Troll at idle speed, my boat has a setting for trolling where you can adjust your rpms. With those Captain Mack's, if you go through a school, you'll catch some doubles on the rig.

I haven't used my Captain Mack's rigs in a few years, but they catch fish. No doubt about that.

In the next day or two, I'll catch a bunch of stripers and I'll post a few pics on how to pinch and pull the red out. If cleaned properly, it's damn near as good as crappie and bigger filets. When I have fish frys, the catfish barely gets touched because people are shocked at how much they prefer the striper.

Anybody do any good today?