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Nov 30, 2024 10:38 pm
The striper fishing on Lake Lanier is finally falling into the Winter patterns. The lake is clear and the water temperature is 63 degrees and slowly dropping with the cold nights. The bait is finally thickening up in the creeks and the stripers are following them. Live bait will be hard to beat in December. Some of these bait schools are absolutely massive. On and off throughout the day the stripers will move through this bait and feast. You want to be waiting on the stripers with the traditional downline with blueback herring and rainbow trout. You will need the same setup for both of these baits but you will need different size weights and hooks. Spool up a Penn Fathom II 20 reel with fifteen pound Trilene Big Game clear line paired with a Shakespeare striper rod. You can use this setup year round for stripers. Tie a carolina rig on the end with a Capt. Mack 2 ounce swivel sinker and 5 foot leader of 15 pound Trilene 100% Flourocarbon and a Gamakatsu 3/0 octopus hook for the medium trout. If the trout are smaller, go with the 1/0 or 2/0 Gamakatsu Octopus hook. On the herring, use the smaller 1 ounce Capt. Mack swivel sinker. Also on the herring use a smaller size 1 Gamakatsu Octopus hook and 12 pound Trilene 100 % Flourocarbon. All of these details are important. These details will make the difference between fishing and catching.
To find where the deeper pods of bait are look for any birds. The birds always narrow your search. Now that you are in the right area, the proper electronics are crucial. On the Humminbird Solix, you can see these huge pods of bait and even see your bait swimming around on the hook around the schools of bait. During the Winter do not be afraid to fish in the middle of the day. Many times in the Winter the best fishing is during the warmest part of the day.
If you want to catch these fish on artificials. The spoon is a great choice. Tie on a Capt. Mack Super Spoon on a 6’6” Fenwick medium action rod paired with a Abu Garcia Revo X with 10 pound line and drop the spoon to the bottom and work it in a yo-yo type motion. Most of the bites will be on the fall of the spoon.
If you do see some surface action, keep a Berkley Spy tied on a spinning rod. The stripers are now keying in on the threadfin shad on the surface. As a result, the smaller baits like the Berkley Spy are a great choice.
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