Spruce Run.......Hybrids

[GetANet]

Sweet, LOVE THE HYBRIDS!!!!! Sounds like you had a pretty active morning doing battle in the HEAT!!!! Nice job

[Jerseydix]

Nice report, hope they continue to bite like that when I finally get up there to Camp.

[Eskimo]

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Tell me about these Hybrid Striped Bass. I do some carp and bass fishing from my kayak at Spruce Run, but I have never hooked up with one of those hybrids.

So people catch them by drifting live bait with a down rigger? Can I freeline live bait or is that too close to the surface?

What happened when this thermocline sets in? Does it improve the fishing by sequestering the fishing to a certain depth or make fishing more difficult?

Do the hybrids ever go in shallow water?

[Bicey]

I troll ....not drifting, with my electric motor. Some guys drift livebait. I would put just enough weight to keep the bait down st the desired depth. I personally like when the thermocline sets in because i know what depth the fish are going to be at. They really stack up when they only have 12 or so feet to live in. I see guys in yaks trolling with no downriggers. I'll give you more info later.

[Fishon1982]

Is there a lot of surface vegetation if for at night trolling

[jimmythegreek]

in 90% of the lake theres no surface weeds, but a rly heavy thermocline, its a reservoir type setup, mostly gravel and rocks. I fished it once last year to no avail on stripers but the thermocline was 11 feet down, never seen anything like it. A poor mans downrigger can be 3+ oz of weight on a deep sea rod and you mark the line before hand to the depth u want, or say 10 feet. that way u can eyeball the + or - u want and use a thin rubberband to set your main line too however back you want. fish hits and rubber band breaks. Or same principal using a 3 way swivel w heavy weight on bottom snap, does the same thing. A nifty way is a jet diver or disk diver, 10 ft is a common size, they keep ur bait down there

[Eskimo]

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Very interesting.

So the most important aspect of finding the stripers is being at the right depth, or would the fish move vertically to strike a bait if they are close?

Would bait below a slip float be effective if the watercraft is moving slow enough?