Pond Boss Forums FISH & FISHING Show off your catch Spring Striper fishing on Norfork Lake

I thought I'd chronicle my spring fishing on Lake Norfork....I've been going for 6 years now, and this will be the most trips I've taken in a single spring to date. I just returned from weekend 2 of 5 scheduled yesterday.

Weekend 1 was a bust, with very few fish caught. The water was too cold and it was very windy.

Weekend 2 however was good. The night bite was on, with us limiting out on stripers 2 of the 3 nights we fished. Nothing very large with the biggest being 8 lb 5 oz, but good fishing nonetheless.

There was zero daytime bite for white bass or really much of anything. All the fish we caught were after dark.

Some pics:







Good story on this one - so we were fishing 2 in my boat, me on the trolling motor and a buddy on the stern. He hooked up so I cranked in really quick and went back to net the fish. For those that don't know the night bite for stripers needs to be done in as close to total darkness as possible. So once I net his fish he gets down low in the boat to unhook it and get it in the livewell via the use of a small head lamp.

So I throw a cast and immediately hook up, before he's even had a chance to unhook the fish. We had to net the 2nd fish while the 1st one was still in the net.