Post by GhostComanche©® on Feb 5, 2021 15:03:00 GMT
Try Stripers at Gaston this winter
by David Fritts at www.NorthCarolinaSportsman.com
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December is a great month to do a lot of things, not the least of them being hunting deer, organizing your tackle and cleaning up your boat.
But I have to admit December always has been a month when I could just sit back for two or three days and fish for fun. And for me, that’s fishing for stripers and crappie.
I get kind of tired of the kind of fishing I’ve been doing for bass in tournaments. So the chance to get on the water and have absolutely nothing in mind but catching fish for the fun of it is a great getaway, and December is a great month to do it.
I have striper fished a lot at Lake Gaston in December. I’ve had some great days at both Lake Gaston, and it’s never been really hard for me because as a rule, the places you catch stripers in December are the same places you catch bass with a crankbait during the middle of the summer.
I’ve had some days during December at Gaston where I’ve caught a limit of 20, 25 and 30 pounds of fish.
At this time of year, it’s pretty easy to catch ’em if you can find ’em, and to do that, you’ve got to go to the main river channel.
Good places to catch them are any places you can find where there’s an excess of current at bends in the channel and drops or where creek channels run into the river, whether they’re 15- or 35-feet deep. Those are usually good ambush points; so are the humps at the river channel at Gaston.
I’ve caught a ton of striped bass at long, tapering points with a sharp drop-off into deep water.
Most of the time in December, stripers will be out on those kinds of deep edges.
My favorite bait is probably a 1 1/2-ounce Hopkins spoon. You just get over top of fish — I keep an eye on my Lowrance depth-finder all the time — and just jig straight up and down.
by David Fritts at www.NorthCarolinaSportsman.com
December is a great month to do a lot of things, not the least of them being hunting deer, organizing your tackle and cleaning up your boat.But I have to admit December always has been a month when I could just sit back for two or three days and fish for fun. And for me, that’s fishing for stripers and crappie.
I get kind of tired of the kind of fishing I’ve been doing for bass in tournaments. So the chance to get on the water and have absolutely nothing in mind but catching fish for the fun of it is a great getaway, and December is a great month to do it.
I have striper fished a lot at Lake Gaston in December. I’ve had some great days at both Lake Gaston, and it’s never been really hard for me because as a rule, the places you catch stripers in December are the same places you catch bass with a crankbait during the middle of the summer.
I’ve had some days during December at Gaston where I’ve caught a limit of 20, 25 and 30 pounds of fish.
At this time of year, it’s pretty easy to catch ’em if you can find ’em, and to do that, you’ve got to go to the main river channel.
Good places to catch them are any places you can find where there’s an excess of current at bends in the channel and drops or where creek channels run into the river, whether they’re 15- or 35-feet deep. Those are usually good ambush points; so are the humps at the river channel at Gaston.
I’ve caught a ton of striped bass at long, tapering points with a sharp drop-off into deep water.
Most of the time in December, stripers will be out on those kinds of deep edges.
My favorite bait is probably a 1 1/2-ounce Hopkins spoon. You just get over top of fish — I keep an eye on my Lowrance depth-finder all the time — and just jig straight up and down.