BLUEFIELD, Va. — When Jeff Hubbard of Bluefield got a chance to fish Tennessee’s Cherokee Lake in March he wasn’t sure what to expect. He was there March 27, a Thursday, and fished from daylight on. The fishing had been slow all day.
“We were fishing in about 18 feet of water and there was a big ledge where it went from about 15 feet to 45 feet on a steep drop. I watched the sonar and saw the bait starting to rise. It came up to 20 feet, then 15, and I thought they might start turning on here,” explained Jeff in a conversation on a recent edition of West Virginia Outdoors.
Thinking the bait ball was nearing the surface, his suspicions were confirmed when several broke water around the boat. Stripers have a tendency to turn on all at once and go into a feeding frenzy, which was exactly what happened…