Triadelphia Reservoir - 9/7/12 Bottom Bouncer Striper

[DanMarino]

I went to Triadelphia this evening and used the bottom bouncer and worm harness exclusively. I used some Gulp worms instead of night crawlers. I caught 3 white perch and a striper that was almost 13 inches!

The first white perch was 10 inches and was the biggest one I've caught there so far.

The striper was pretty neat. It fought pretty well and then when it saw the kayak, it made a nice little run to try and get away. Water was 83-85 degrees and fish were all deep around 20-25 feet of water.

[J.A. Veil]

Nice work. That striper seems really fat for its length. Most of the 12" to 15" stripers I catch in the bay are more slender than that one.

I wonder if the fresh water environment causes them to grow differently? Or perhaps it is a hybrid (wiper)?

[kayak456]

nice very cool im gonna go perch fishing in blackwalnut creek tommorow since to windy for the boat gotta get new line on my ultra light after that big drum spooled me

[HJS]

MD does not stock hybrid stripers. So that's a pure striper and a very fat striper I might add. Triadelphia has a robust population of gizzard shad. So I'm guessing the stripers are eating the young gizzards.

[perchy]

Earlier this year, I caught a baby striper about that size in Rocky Gorge on a firetiger deep diving rapala. It's great to see they are doing well and naturally reproducing. I have seen a school of larger ones swimming around in one of the coves as well.

[HJS]

I guess its possible for stripers to reproduce in this lake. However, Maryland DNR does from time to time stock striper fingerlings in this lake to help control the gizzard shad populations as well as to provide a good fishery.

[perchy]

Here is the one I caught from Rocky Gorge.

[Greedyfly]

wow the water level looks a lot lower than it was in march/april when i was there crappie fishing. Dry summer

[DanMarino]

Triadelphia is about 10 feet low right now. I'm not sure how it is at Rocky Gorge.

[Cal]

yeah the reservoir is super low right now. nice catches!

[perchy]

I went to Rocky Gorge on sunday night for about 1 hour and trolled my deep diving husky jerk between Scott's Cove and the stumps... skunked

The res looked about 10-15 ft low. The big stump flats area is totally exposed.

[Boondock_RES]

oh that's so great i wish i could get a dummy toy like thing one of them. Because i am a product designer in a baby bouncer company.i would have used that toy in our bouncers.

w....t....f...?

[Striper_MIKE]

Lol