Seminar: Stripers on the Hooch
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Guys –
I’ll be speaking to the Georgia Women Fly Fishers at 7PM on this coming Monday (Valentine’s Day) at the Delkwood Grill in Marietta.
The topic’s going to be striper fishing on the Chattahoochee River, here in Atlanta.
Zach, you must have gotten some bad information. There are none of those fish in the Hooch, at least not in those stretches.
Peter –
See the attachment.
Mike –
Don’t worry man, there’s a ton of water to go around and believe me this is no secret. (Seriously, just google “Chattahoochee Stripers” and you’ll be overwhelmed with results). There’s also no shortage of fish – there’s like 60 miles of river going down to West Point Lake.
Zach
One of the things I’ve been real interested to find out more about is how stripers got to be in the Gulf waters, and thus the Hooch, in the first place.
As best I can tell from talking to our biologist buddies like Gary Grossman, they must have traveled round the tip of Florida during the last glacial maximum (i.e. 12,000 years ago). That’s really interesting if you think about it; ice sheets got as far south as Virginia, which means here in North Georgia our climate would most likely have been similar to Maine today.
The ones we catch in the Hooch are stocked, obviously, although at least they used Gulf strain brood stock when they planted in West Point Lake (at least the last time–I am not sure how long that’s been going on).
All of us that call the Hooch home know that it has been a touchy subject and we also know how delicate and poor the run is in comparison to rivers like the Cumberland.
Two years ago I would have been pretty PO’ed that you are doing a seminar about stripes in the hooch through Atlanta but these days its pretty common knowledge. Between NGTO and GON the information has long been out there, and Chris Scalley’s guys were running guide trips for them last summer. I guess the info is out there if you want it, the only saving grace is that most anglers do not have the persistence to fish for 5 days without getting a fish.
If I were you though I would be careful as to what you tell people location wise or you will likely have 50 people fishing your holes every time you show up to fish this summer.
Adam:
Not my first rodeo. No reason to be concerned. Keep the audience in mind here – to the best of my knowledge none of these ladies are going to be running guide trips.
Zach
Sorry, i confused this with a speech at the show next weekend, i need to read better.
I don’t think my intent was to imply that the GWFF would be taking up guiding on the hooch.
besides everyone knows that the best striper fishing on the hooch is down where kent edmonds is on the south side of town anyways.
Keith, Interesting on the polarized eyes, never heard that. I will say that i once caught one on a 90 degree bluebird day a few summers ago in early afternoon. If anything, they are hard to predict! and don’t hold true to patterns that everyone thinks.
Zach, I hooked my first striper in the DH section back in 2004. He took down a 9″ stocker and flew past me. It was over in about 5 seconds.
Thanks Zach, I appreciate the cliff notes! This really reminds me of the Coosa here in Alabama, which I beleive starts in Georgia.
Though my fshing for striped bass has been limited to large rivers I will definately give this a try and see what I can come up with out there this summer. Inland striper fisherman are a closed lip group, and I am sure that the GWFF really appreciated your helpful advice and tips. Keep up the good work.
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