Pat Sutherland and I hit the Delta last year and caught a lot of stripers on bass gear. They fight very hard and slammed our speed traps quite often in the same areas the largies were in.

Russ

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Stripers are indeed everything they are supposed to be, they do fight hard, I've caught them up to 55 lbs.  My experience with them isn't on the delta but rather on the TVA dam systems in Tennessee and Alabama.  Locals call them rock fish and 9 times out of 10 you are fishing the tail races of a dam, Watts Bar, Milton Hill, Loudon, Nickajack, etc.  Most fisherman are using live bait, either yellow-tails or greenbacks, depending on the time of year, and they are fishing it straight up and down in the seams of the tail races, when tail-race fishing.  This style of fishing calls for good life vests and a dedicated motor man, while others fish

Now, occasionally those tail-race fish move out onto adjacent flats and locals switch to free-lining their live bait.  I have had success using swimbaits and large crankbaits while my brother and dad free-lined live bait on the flats, although they look at me like I'm crazy when there are plenty of baits left in the bait tank.

Additionally they are a firm and tasty fish!