Jan 25-30 Sorry for the lack of reports, but I've rescheduled my charters because of the muddy water. There's muddy water from Lynville down to the mid lake areas and the fish just ain't very aggressive. I'd expect an awesome bite once the water clears up.

February 09 - Smoked 'em! The bite came back this morning and lasted all day long. Never even dropped the first bait rod... all stripers came from jiggin' All fish released

Feb 10 - We had a pretty good day today, and we had good action throughout the day. We caught fish from jiggin' and castin' as well as downlines and shallow planers. We had to look a little more today in order to find the fish, which mostly were 40-50 deep in the trees, then we'd find a break in the trees and drop jigs to 'em. We did find some that were running shallow in 5-8 feet of water.
All fish released

Feb 11- Went messing around in the snow today and picked up 2. One from a shallow planer and one from jiggin. All fish released

Feb 14 - Went scouting again and the fish were pretty darn active.....All fish released

This is the typical situation right now. You'll see a couple of singles that won't touch yer jig, but then another fish shows up and nails it.

This is just showing how fish hide on the bottom. (Most of the fish that are on the bottom are the most active and ready to hit)

This is pretty funny. I got into a nice school and it took forever to get one to bite. That's just the way it goes sometimes, especially with bluebird skies and high pressure. You can see me jiggin' right above all of these stripers without a hit. finally convinced one after about 5 minutes of jiggin'.

Same thing

Got Bait?

Feb 15 - We had Bluebird skies and 30+ units of barometric pressure, but we still managed to jig up some nice fish. The fish were really deep today. The inactive fish were at 70 feet, and the active fish were 35-50 feet deep. We got 1 on live bait and missed several others, and everything else was caught on jiggin'. Beautiful day of 60 degree weather and calm, with some hard fighting stripers on light tackle. All fish released

Feb 16 Today I took the Channel 7 crew out for a quick hour's trip to get some footage. I didn't have much hope in catching fish on a sunny day from 10am to 11am, but we did get 1 one the boat and missed 4 more, 1 which was a really nice fish that we got to the boat.
Click for a clip from the footage: http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=4514520

Look for my picture and then click the Movie Icon above the picture labeled: "Winter, the perfect time for fishing"

Feb 17 - A great day of fishing. It was windy, but we managed to jig up around 18 fish. The biggest two were a 13.5 and a 17pounds. Awesome fishing. All fish released!

Feb 18 - At 7am and on the first cast my client caught a striper, so we either thought we're gonna wear 'em out or that would be the only striper we would catch. From that point up to around noon, it was really slow and we only picked up 3 more. But at 12:30 the action started heating up and we hit some really agressive fish hangin' in the trees. We were jiggin' 'em up pretty darn quick. The last fish we caught was a 12.5 pounder. A great day of fishing in the snow, except for the the slow start. All fish released!

Feb 23 & 24- Jeez what an unbelievable bite. On the 23rd we jigged up more than 50 stripers (All Released of course) and on the 24th we jigged up about 30. Although these fish were all under 10lbs, they were a blast on light tackle. There seems to be a healthy number of 5-8lb fish coming up the chain.

Feb 25 - This was our first slow day in 2 weeks. I'm not sure why because it was calm and overcast, but the fish just would not feed. We got several as soon as we put the bait out and from casting to the banks, but after 8am, it shut off completely except for a couple on jigs. We didn't mark any schools of any size.

Feb 26 - Windy as heck! The fish turned on mid-morning and we were catching a good number of fish when the wind would allow us to sit still. Our numbers would have doubled if it would not have been so windy. These clients were from Wyoming and they were used to the cold and thought our 30mph wind gusts were nothing. These fish hit large alewives and jigs. All fish released!