Cordell Hull but no striper

[Dakota]

My buddy picked me up Friday at 4:45 AM in Mt. Juliet we headed to Cordell Hollow Dam for some Striper. Generation was a lot less than the weeks before. We put in and the water temp was 54°. We rigged up 4 rods with gizzard shad (my buddy caught on Old Hickory) and started drifting with the current about 2.5 mph. I was casting topwater out of front of the boat. Unfortunately no takers or no swirls with me casting a pencil popper. I did throw in A-rig for a while too, no takers. We motored up to the damn after a while, caught some skipjack and the tied off a tree with 4 rods out for about an hour and a half but nothing. Other boaters that were there had the same result not even a bite. One guy said his buddy got a 50lb a few days ago other than that we hadn’t heard any good reports. For what it’s worth there’s a “not so good” Striper update from Cordell Hull.


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[TnCreekMaster]

Thanks for the report Dakota, should get real good next week or two up there! Good luck out there!

[Aquaholic]

It’s been an awful spring on the Cumberland for the striper fishermen. Not sure what it is...the rain, the flows, not sure. Bait, which has been hard to come by recently, is now thick at the dam. Yet, I’m not even marking striper, much-less catching any. H20 temps have been fluctuating, but are at 57 now. We’ve tied up all over and pulled from the dam to Rome this weekend. Not sure what to make of it.

[Aquaholic]

by the resounding responses, I guess the striper are all dead.....

Either the fish are way behind schedule or doing something totally difeferent than in years past, with the recent rain, releases and flows.

[SAMBOLIE]

by the resounding responses, I guess the striper are all dead.....

Either the fish are way behind schedule or doing something totally difeferent than in years past, with the recent rain, releases and flows.

They are not all dead. This fellow had a good one on yesterday.
9630

Also saw Merv out chasing them.
9629

[Dakota]

I hope to go again soon.


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[jaybird]

they are not all dead. This fellow had a good one on yesterday.
9630

also saw merv out chasing them.
9629

lmao!!

[tkwalker]

They are not all dead. This fellow had a good one on yesterday.
9630

Also saw Merv out chasing them.
9629

I think Merv's right ... I think a petition is circulating for a straight Jacket :eek:... <'TK>< :D

[Texas_Rig]

They are not all dead. This fellow had a good one on yesterday.
9630

Also saw Merv out chasing them.
9629

Lol. :D

[Dakota]

Went to Cordell Hull again yesterday, still no fish. We had skippies on 2 planer boards, 1 ballon rig and 1 free lining. That’s right as some of you said it’s been the worst spring in quite some time at CH. We pulled up beside three biologists in a boat and asked them what they were working on. They said in East Tennessee they had shocked a bunch of female stripers but not many males. They came to CH to shock some males. The bad news is they were shocking fish for two hours and only had one striper. So that pretty much tells us the striper are somewhere else. The biologist didn’t really have any reasoning either.


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[agelesssone]

I think Merv's right ... I think a petition is circulating for a straight Jacket :eek:... <'TK>< :D

Right now the voting is 99-1.
SAMBOLIE''s wife (God bless her heart) voted against it!
She's afraid they'll stop his mental disability SS payments.