01-22-2017, 12:24 AM
I'm guessing your going from shore. Hemenway pier was way too shallow when I went there years ago. The water has moved, but it looks like a gradual slope, so it's probably just as shallow. At willow, they stopped stocking trout a few years ago and that hurt striper fishing as they eat the trout. That should start up again in a few weeks, but it will take time to recover. If you have a heavy rod you can throw giant trout swimbaits once that starts.
Other than that, try government wash, crawdad cove, Kingman wash on the AZ side. It's the turnoff right after the bridge over the river and before the Willow exit. Or you can go up north toward echo bay or overton. I used to have good luck on the overton side from shore.
I haven't had much luck for stripers from shore during winter, they usually go deeper, so you'd have to use bait this time of year.
It gets easier from the spring on like most places. During july-Oct, the stripers start boiling at the surface and just throw topwater in the middle of it. Kinda looks like a weird surface disturbance with some swirls and some splashing. If it's all splashing and you see kinda short and tall fish jumping, that's probably gizzard shad jumping. Those get to a couple pounds, so they are easy to mistake for stripers. It's easier to hit them from shore with a longer rod. A lot of times you see it just off shore and it's just out of range... Also, white colored lures do well on both stripers and LMB here. My fav jerkbait is a bleeding redhead. There are also catfish all over. Hope that helps.
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Other than that, try government wash, crawdad cove, Kingman wash on the AZ side. It's the turnoff right after the bridge over the river and before the Willow exit. Or you can go up north toward echo bay or overton. I used to have good luck on the overton side from shore.
I haven't had much luck for stripers from shore during winter, they usually go deeper, so you'd have to use bait this time of year.
It gets easier from the spring on like most places. During july-Oct, the stripers start boiling at the surface and just throw topwater in the middle of it. Kinda looks like a weird surface disturbance with some swirls and some splashing. If it's all splashing and you see kinda short and tall fish jumping, that's probably gizzard shad jumping. Those get to a couple pounds, so they are easy to mistake for stripers. It's easier to hit them from shore with a longer rod. A lot of times you see it just off shore and it's just out of range... Also, white colored lures do well on both stripers and LMB here. My fav jerkbait is a bleeding redhead. There are also catfish all over. Hope that helps.
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