If I want to eat fish I can keep as many white bass or other species as I want. These trophy wipers are rare and I don't have any reason to keep them. Thanks, it was definitely one of my favorite trips of the year.
that dam is an anglers dream, good rushing water that you can actually reach with a normal cast but also has a nice eddy for fish to stay out of the current. awesome
I was fishing here this week and had the opportunity to meet Al. I was using 15 lb braid, which I thought you recommended and is what the guy at Scheels recommended. Al suggested 25 or even as high as 50 lb line. I was getting snagged and broke off constantly. Bummer, but as I promised Al, I will be back.
Ya I use 20 lb. I like anything in the 10-20lb range. Al is a bait fisherman so he isn’t constantly casting. In that case heavy line is OK. Casting and reeling 50 lb line all day isn’t fun. If you are getting snagged you need a lighter jig head faster retrieve or both.
My favorite too! I've noticed a huge increase in the population of 2-3 lb wipers this fall. I think the DNR stocked a whole bunch of them in the past year or so. The next few years should be good!
Thanks it was a blast! I did go back the next day and got a 12 lber but it was clear the bite was slowing down. I think I caught lightning in a bottle for 1 hr and just like that it was gone.
If just starting out the first thing I would do would be to find stocking/fishing reports to find lakes and rivers where a lot of wipers are found. If you find a river that has a lot of wipers then throw a jig head with a 3" swimbait or fluke (white and/or chartreuse is best) below spillways or fast moving riffles. Wipers like fast moving or turbulent water so they will be hanging out there waiting for bait fish. If you find a good lake try fishing early mornings or late in the evenings when you are most likely to find them blowing up on the surface. Once you find them throw the same swimbait or fluke I mentioned above or cast a topwater like whopper plopper or popper. Once you spend enough time on a good body of water you will start to learn their habits and find areas where the fish like to concentrate. good luck!
That's what sucks about fishing pressured water, any fish you release is just going to get caught again and put on a stringer by someone else. Awesome video man
I don't think so. I think a decent number of them will make it through. The 13 lb wipers in this video are a good argument for that. This place is so heavily fished I have to assume that many of those giants have been caught at least once in their life but got another chance and ended up making it to trophy status. A tagging program would be interesting to see if I'm right or not. Thanks for watching!
@@BackroadsAngling There life span is about the same as that of a White Bass, so they don't live a long time. Those fish are getting up there in age. And yes, they will not live any longer once they hit the ice! Good to see you release the big fish! Been some talk amoung biologist that they can reproduce and successfully spawn in the right rivers! I C&R them too. But to be honest the just legal fish eat better. Here in Texas the minimum length is 18". My PB is is a 26.5" that weight 9.0lbs. I also caugth a TP&W "Water Body Record" Striped Bass on my to that spot. Seems river run Hybrids are bigger than their lake raised brothers and sisters! I've been crushing the Hybrids the last three weeks in the lake. They are a blast!
@@charlesfoster8814 Some people give me a hard time for releasing the big wipers saying they are about to die anyway. However, our state record is 20lbs so if one of these 12-13 lbers has similar potential then it actually still has a lot of living and growing to do. There's no way to tell how much life they have left just by looking at them and weighing them. Sounds like you are on the wipers. Good luck!
It would have been nice to have someone to share in the action! These fish are usually zeroed in on shad but usually they will eat artificial imitations almost as good as the real thing. This time however it seems they were so dialed in that they only wanted the real thing.
That's awesome man! I've made a lot of hybrid/wiper vids myself! Such an underrated fish. For a while here we were catching only 10lb+ hybrids! But recently we haven't had any water down here in Mississippi so most of my hybrid videos on my channel were posted a couple months to a year back. Keep it up brother!
I've seen some of your hybrid videos. You guys catch some tanks down there! We usually catch a lot of 5-6 lbers in this area but occasionally you hit a nice DD. However this year has been different. I think I have caught as many 10+ as I have below 10lbers. I'm not sure why the size has increased so much but I'm OK with it. Thanks!
Yeah that's what's up man! That's how it was here about 3 years ago, but they haven't been able to stock any more for us since 2016 so we are almost out of the big hybrids unfortunately. But oh well, we should get more soon. Keep up the great content brother!@@BackroadsAngling
Ya I guess the stocking program plays a huge role in how good a wiper fishery is going to be. I hope you they start re-stocking your rivers and spillways soon! Good luck!
amazing love the spillway vids going to lockport mb today at around 3 or 4 and gonna be throwing jigs with curly tails for some monster channel cats not many peple do it because they never heard of it but i do it all the time and it woks the best
I actually think there is a good chance that someone could catch one near the state record in the next 3-4 yrs. The average size is so big right now and it only takes 1 fish having a crazy growth spurt and it could get there. The fish in this spillway are built thicker and denser than other spillways in the state. I’m actually surprised the state record hasn’t been caught from here yet.
@@BackroadsAngling the kid from The Avid fisherman is my friend and he has showed me a picture of his PB wiper which was 17 pounds which is the biggest wiper I've ever seen caught out of there. When wiper get that big they get so dense that they can't even grow from the top anymore they can only grow in length. Eventually when they get past the 20 pound mark they look like stripers but with broken lines!
I was actually late for work that day but no one noticed so I was good. A bite like that was worth getting in the dog house for. Even the smaller wipers fight like crazy! Thanks!
I'm thinking about starting to do them again. Last year I felt like it kind of hurt my channel because I attracted a lot of viewers that liked watching shorts but weren't into the longer videos. My CTR and watch time for the long videos went down and RUclips stopped recommending my videos as much. That being said, I have a lot of ideas for some shorts so you might see some new ones coming soon. Thanks.
Fantastic!! 13 lb X 2 Think you fished at the best spot close to the fall. (Destroyed my comment 5 days ago 😶.... somehow ? , watched you twice and only noticed it now)
Thanks, these fish really like to chase shad into the fast water. The bait fish get disoriented and then it's an easy meal for the wipers. Thanks for watching....twice!
A good reason to release them. Once they're gone they aren't coming back unless someone restocks them. If they spawned then they could bounce back after they get over harvested. Also, re-stocking a bunch of 8 inch fish isn't going to replace 13 lb fish. It takes a lot of luck to get one to survive to that size.
If this spot was near Houston, that one "guy" would spread the word amoung his people... They would clean the river out in a week. I got into a great spillway bite on Hybrids in January. Within three weeks they had the placed covered up. They found a eddy that was holding huge numbers of crappie. They had people carrying their limit (25) up to waiting cars. It was very sad to see. But it took the pressure off the Hybrids. They took a special technique the actually catch large numbers of Hybrids. Fortunately for me they just didn't pay close enough attention to what i was doing. It was a 5" zoom bait!
Ya, that happens here too. I came back the next day and it was pretty crowded. It's hard to keep a good wiper bite secret and they are so vulnerable when they are in a frenzy like this. Unfortunately we don't have any limits on wipers so if someone gets into a hot bite and wants to keep 20 big ones they can.
I like watching but you told that man the next fish he could have then you didn't do it.! I release also but I think he expected because you did say the next one.
Big wipers like this are rare so letting one of them go on the stringer wasn't an option. Because of over harvesting they are becoming hard to find. I thought maybe I would catch a smaller white bass for him which are abundant in the river but I only ended up catching bigger ones. He had 2 big wipers on his stringer and I knew that was more than enough to feed his family for several days. In hindsight I should have landed the fish myself so that he didn't expect payment but at the time I thought he was doing it to be nice. It was a lesson learned and next time I will just land the fish myself.
@@BackroadsAngling I agree totally with you on release I do. I have had this happen to me I just tell them from the start sorry I release all fish. They usually don't bother me anymore. I just think he took it the wrong way I don't think you could of won he didn't understand you! Lol
@@julielefler9747 Yes it is true that we weren't understanding each other. We actually had a pretty vibe going for the most part. In the video it doesn't really come off that way but the interaction was mostly positive.
Lmbo,,, Don't hand him a fish,,, hand him some shad!! (after you see his license!) I've been trying to go fish the River for a month now,,,,,, You made my day. ;>) THANKS!
I call them wipers because they aren't pure stripers. I think most guys around here call them hybrids. Some guys I talk to from the south call them sand bass. It seems there are a quite a few names for these things.
Until you see the same guy later on after he's collected more fish than he can carry. Then I think it makes perfect sense - to most people anyway. I think most people like to catch trophy fish. It makes no sense to me why they want to take them all out of the river.
Thanks, it was a pretty crazy 60 minutes or so. I'm so glad I got it on video because I had so much adrenaline flowing it was just a blur. If I didn't have the footage I seriously don't think I would have a very good memory of anything that happened. The dude caught another one that I didn't get on camera that was the same size so ya unfortunately some giants got harvested that day.
That man makes us Asians look bad, If he really wanted some, all he had to do or ask you how and what bait you was catching them on and duplicate it. Im sure he would have caught his own
That guy did end up with two 10+ lb fish so he had plenty to eat. That's one reason I didn't feel too bad about not giving up my catches. This spillway is very pressured and the bigger wipers are getting harder to find. That's why I try to always release the big ones. Thanks for watching!
The Asian guys around me in cali keep everything. Guys going home with 30+ bluegill, tiny catfish, and stripers no matter how small. Kinda gets irritating that they always try and "help me" land my fish and unhook it and try to keep it. A couple weeks ago a guy took home 8 stripers ranging from 8"-26". Sometimes wish the warden would catch them.
@@Isaiah-gg6pd I also meet a lot of people that keep everything big or small. We don't have any regulations when it comes to wipers (stripers). You can keep any size and there is no limit. It's really frustrating because sometimes you get on a hot bite and you'll see someone literally keep 20 big ones and it's perfectly legal. I'm not sure if they actually eat it or leave it in the freezer to get freezer burned.
The D R E A M! Unbelievable bite! Thanks for bringing us along. Wiper are the best.
It definitely felt like a dream. I'm glad I captured it on camera or I wouldn't believe it happened! Thanks for watching!
Awesome video, man! One of my favorite things about spillways is,if you watch the waterfall, you can see the fish fall in occasionally
Thanks, I was seeing a bunch of shad spilling over on this day. I think the bigger predators took notice.
@@BackroadsAngling Yw.
Wow! Awesome catches! Keep it up!
Thanks! I hope the hot bite continues!
I dont know man. I have a hard time not living by, "If you hook 'em, you cook 'em."
Awesome video. Looks like a great morning.
If I want to eat fish I can keep as many white bass or other species as I want. These trophy wipers are rare and I don't have any reason to keep them. Thanks, it was definitely one of my favorite trips of the year.
"Hello, Work? I probably won't be in today. Maybe longer if this keeps up.....that's ok, we had a good run! Take care!"
Were you listening in on my phone calls?
@@BackroadsAngling No just thinking of what I would say in that situation, but mine would possibly include an f-bomb, depending on the day...
@@SluSharkND Ya I hear ya!
that dam is an anglers dream, good rushing water that you can actually reach with a normal cast but also has a nice eddy for fish to stay out of the current. awesome
I agree. It's a gem and a lot of fun to fish. When it's on the fishing is unreal. Thank you!
I bet. u earned a new subscriber. keep up the good work
I was fishing here this week and had the opportunity to meet Al. I was using 15 lb braid, which I thought you recommended and is what the guy at Scheels recommended. Al suggested 25 or even as high as 50 lb line. I was getting snagged and broke off constantly. Bummer, but as I promised Al, I will be back.
Ya I use 20 lb. I like anything in the 10-20lb range. Al is a bait fisherman so he isn’t constantly casting. In that case heavy line is OK. Casting and reeling 50 lb line all day isn’t fun. If you are getting snagged you need a lighter jig head faster retrieve or both.
Much respect bro wipers are my top fav species to catch 🤙🎣
My favorite too! I've noticed a huge increase in the population of 2-3 lb wipers this fall. I think the DNR stocked a whole bunch of them in the past year or so. The next few years should be good!
Your so lucky to be fishing here this place has to be the best place in America is so funny your just swiping shad to the side like is candy awesome.
@@maximus2944 it’s a sweet spot and this was the best I’ve seen it. The shad are usually thick enough to catch them with their hands. Pretty crazy.
Heck yes, what a great day there... that would make me go right back lol some monsters!!!
Thanks it was a blast! I did go back the next day and got a 12 lber but it was clear the bite was slowing down. I think I caught lightning in a bottle for 1 hr and just like that it was gone.
@@BackroadsAngling I hit a honey hole of nice smallies the other night and was a blast !! I wanna go back so bad soon
Nice!
Very nice fish they are biteing really good where was this at
haha nice video bro any good tips on Wiper Fishing for some guys who had no knowledge about it?
If just starting out the first thing I would do would be to find stocking/fishing reports to find lakes and rivers where a lot of wipers are found. If you find a river that has a lot of wipers then throw a jig head with a 3" swimbait or fluke (white and/or chartreuse is best) below spillways or fast moving riffles. Wipers like fast moving or turbulent water so they will be hanging out there waiting for bait fish. If you find a good lake try fishing early mornings or late in the evenings when you are most likely to find them blowing up on the surface. Once you find them throw the same swimbait or fluke I mentioned above or cast a topwater like whopper plopper or popper. Once you spend enough time on a good body of water you will start to learn their habits and find areas where the fish like to concentrate. good luck!
Ohhh that’s makes a lot of sense what about the gear set up 😅
@@selaher8670 medium action rod paired with a reel that has good drag. 20lb braid with a 20lb flour leader for the last 3ft above the jig head.
When is the best time wiper running?
is this across the river from where I normally see you??
Yes, the flows are better on the opposite side during the summer so I moved over there.
Great view, sunrise over the dam with a big fish on. How much better can it get?
I agree, it was one of my favorite mornings from this summer.
That's what sucks about fishing pressured water, any fish you release is just going to get caught again and put on a stringer by someone else. Awesome video man
I don't think so. I think a decent number of them will make it through. The 13 lb wipers in this video are a good argument for that. This place is so heavily fished I have to assume that many of those giants have been caught at least once in their life but got another chance and ended up making it to trophy status. A tagging program would be interesting to see if I'm right or not. Thanks for watching!
@@BackroadsAngling
There life span is about the same as that of a White Bass, so they don't live a long time. Those fish are getting up there in age. And yes, they will not live any longer once they hit the ice! Good to see you release the big fish!
Been some talk amoung biologist that they can reproduce and successfully spawn in the right rivers!
I C&R them too. But to be honest the just legal fish eat better. Here in Texas the minimum length is 18".
My PB is is a 26.5" that weight 9.0lbs.
I also caugth a TP&W "Water Body Record" Striped Bass on my to that spot.
Seems river run Hybrids are bigger than their lake raised brothers and sisters!
I've been crushing the Hybrids the last three weeks in the lake.
They are a blast!
@@charlesfoster8814 Some people give me a hard time for releasing the big wipers saying they are about to die anyway. However, our state record is 20lbs so if one of these 12-13 lbers has similar potential then it actually still has a lot of living and growing to do. There's no way to tell how much life they have left just by looking at them and weighing them. Sounds like you are on the wipers. Good luck!
Oh, Man; I wish I could've been there with you. And, live shad is exactly what I would've been expecting them to be after. 👍
It would have been nice to have someone to share in the action! These fish are usually zeroed in on shad but usually they will eat artificial imitations almost as good as the real thing. This time however it seems they were so dialed in that they only wanted the real thing.
That's awesome man! I've made a lot of hybrid/wiper vids myself! Such an underrated fish. For a while here we were catching only 10lb+ hybrids! But recently we haven't had any water down here in Mississippi so most of my hybrid videos on my channel were posted a couple months to a year back. Keep it up brother!
I've seen some of your hybrid videos. You guys catch some tanks down there! We usually catch a lot of 5-6 lbers in this area but occasionally you hit a nice DD. However this year has been different. I think I have caught as many 10+ as I have below 10lbers. I'm not sure why the size has increased so much but I'm OK with it. Thanks!
Yeah that's what's up man! That's how it was here about 3 years ago, but they haven't been able to stock any more for us since 2016 so we are almost out of the big hybrids unfortunately. But oh well, we should get more soon. Keep up the great content brother!@@BackroadsAngling
Ya I guess the stocking program plays a huge role in how good a wiper fishery is going to be. I hope you they start re-stocking your rivers and spillways soon! Good luck!
The percentage of success was unbelievable.
amazing love the spillway vids going to lockport mb today at around 3 or 4 and gonna be throwing jigs with curly tails for some monster channel cats not many peple do it because they never heard of it but i do it all the time and it woks the best
Thanks! I've heard of Lockport through Jay Siemens and Uncut Angling. Seems like it's the best channel cat fishing in the world. Good luck!
@@BackroadsAngling sure is and thanks
Multiple double digit hybrids 😮 what a day!
Thanks, it was crazy bite window!
From Canada, I find this fishing fascinating. I dont want your spots, but can you tell me what state you're in?
Nice video 👍
Thanks!
Its possible you couldve gotten your new PB in there, just huge school of double digits sitting in there
I actually think there is a good chance that someone could catch one near the state record in the next 3-4 yrs. The average size is so big right now and it only takes 1 fish having a crazy growth spurt and it could get there. The fish in this spillway are built thicker and denser than other spillways in the state. I’m actually surprised the state record hasn’t been caught from here yet.
@@BackroadsAngling the kid from The Avid fisherman is my friend and he has showed me a picture of his PB wiper which was 17 pounds which is the biggest wiper I've ever seen caught out of there. When wiper get that big they get so dense that they can't even grow from the top anymore they can only grow in length. Eventually when they get past the 20 pound mark they look like stripers but with broken lines!
@@AGdaRiverRat That's a big one. I've never seen one around here that big. I would have to see a picture to believe it.
Awesome! That's my favorite fish!
I know your arm was sore after that session! 💪💪
My favorite fish too. It was taking about 5-7 min to get these fish in so I did end up getting quite a workout! Thank you!
Late for work, not a question. Maybe a day off. Great video only caught small ones Of
These say 2-3 pounds.
Awesome on ultra light.
I was actually late for work that day but no one noticed so I was good. A bite like that was worth getting in the dog house for. Even the smaller wipers fight like crazy! Thanks!
Some amazing fishing!
Thanks it was fun!
Loved the video, you should do more shorts videos to increase your audience. and cause there awesome.
I'm thinking about starting to do them again. Last year I felt like it kind of hurt my channel because I attracted a lot of viewers that liked watching shorts but weren't into the longer videos. My CTR and watch time for the long videos went down and RUclips stopped recommending my videos as much. That being said, I have a lot of ideas for some shorts so you might see some new ones coming soon. Thanks.
alr awesome!@@BackroadsAngling
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Thanks!
Guy should have followed suit and put a shad on
I did offer him some
Fantastic!! 13 lb X 2 Think you fished at the best spot close to the fall. (Destroyed my comment 5 days ago 😶.... somehow ? , watched you twice and only noticed it now)
Thanks, these fish really like to chase shad into the fast water. The bait fish get disoriented and then it's an easy meal for the wipers. Thanks for watching....twice!
Are the good to eat?
Please don't feel bad about releasing fish. Catch and release is very important for our fishing future.
I agree. A lot of these places are heavily pressured and without catch and release there won't be any fish left to catch. Thanks!
They are hybrids made to take. They Do Not spawn.
A good reason to release them. Once they're gone they aren't coming back unless someone restocks them. If they spawned then they could bounce back after they get over harvested. Also, re-stocking a bunch of 8 inch fish isn't going to replace 13 lb fish. It takes a lot of luck to get one to survive to that size.
If this spot was near Houston, that one "guy" would spread the word amoung his people...
They would clean the river out in a week.
I got into a great spillway bite on Hybrids in January.
Within three weeks they had the placed covered up. They found a eddy that was holding huge numbers of crappie. They had people carrying their limit (25) up to waiting cars.
It was very sad to see. But it took the pressure off the Hybrids. They took a special technique the actually catch large numbers of Hybrids. Fortunately for me they just didn't pay close enough attention to what i was doing.
It was a 5" zoom bait!
Ya, that happens here too. I came back the next day and it was pretty crowded. It's hard to keep a good wiper bite secret and they are so vulnerable when they are in a frenzy like this. Unfortunately we don't have any limits on wipers so if someone gets into a hot bite and wants to keep 20 big ones they can.
I like watching but you told that man the next fish he could have then you didn't do it.! I release also but I think he expected because you did say the next one.
Big wipers like this are rare so letting one of them go on the stringer wasn't an option. Because of over harvesting they are becoming hard to find. I thought maybe I would catch a smaller white bass for him which are abundant in the river but I only ended up catching bigger ones. He had 2 big wipers on his stringer and I knew that was more than enough to feed his family for several days. In hindsight I should have landed the fish myself so that he didn't expect payment but at the time I thought he was doing it to be nice. It was a lesson learned and next time I will just land the fish myself.
@@BackroadsAngling I agree totally with you on release I do. I have had this happen to me I just tell them from the start sorry I release all fish. They usually don't bother me anymore. I just think he took it the wrong way I don't think you could of won he didn't understand you! Lol
@@julielefler9747 Yes it is true that we weren't understanding each other. We actually had a pretty vibe going for the most part. In the video it doesn't really come off that way but the interaction was mostly positive.
Good
Thank you!
Lmbo,,, Don't hand him a fish,,, hand him some shad!! (after you see his license!)
I've been trying to go fish the River for a month now,,,,,, You made my day. ;>)
THANKS!
I did offer him some shad to use as bait. He caught 2 big ones so he was eating good. Thanks for watching!
Catch and release is good with native species..., but Wipers are for the frying pan.
I like catching big wipers so I keep them in the river. The smaller wipers, white bass and walleye are more numerous and taste better.
Release the first one and
Eat the rest .
We call them strippers not wipers
I call them wipers because they aren't pure stripers. I think most guys around here call them hybrids. Some guys I talk to from the south call them sand bass. It seems there are a quite a few names for these things.
We call them Hybrids or Wipers here in Texas
There just hybrids guys.
Your catch today is someone dinner tmr. Make no sense to catch and release.
Until you see the same guy later on after he's collected more fish than he can carry. Then I think it makes perfect sense - to most people anyway. I think most people like to catch trophy fish. It makes no sense to me why they want to take them all out of the river.
Absolutely insane, man! Best wiper content on youtube! RIP to the 12.4 that guy ate 🥲
@EngineeringHooksets He didn't eat it yet he freezed it for thanksgiving
Thanks, it was a pretty crazy 60 minutes or so. I'm so glad I got it on video because I had so much adrenaline flowing it was just a blur. If I didn't have the footage I seriously don't think I would have a very good memory of anything that happened. The dude caught another one that I didn't get on camera that was the same size so ya unfortunately some giants got harvested that day.
That man makes us Asians look bad, If he really wanted some, all he had to do or ask you how and what bait you was catching them on and duplicate it. Im sure he would have caught his own
That guy did end up with two 10+ lb fish so he had plenty to eat. That's one reason I didn't feel too bad about not giving up my catches. This spillway is very pressured and the bigger wipers are getting harder to find. That's why I try to always release the big ones. Thanks for watching!
The Asian guys around me in cali keep everything. Guys going home with 30+ bluegill, tiny catfish, and stripers no matter how small. Kinda gets irritating that they always try and "help me" land my fish and unhook it and try to keep it. A couple weeks ago a guy took home 8 stripers ranging from 8"-26". Sometimes wish the warden would catch them.
@@Isaiah-gg6pd I also meet a lot of people that keep everything big or small. We don't have any regulations when it comes to wipers (stripers). You can keep any size and there is no limit. It's really frustrating because sometimes you get on a hot bite and you'll see someone literally keep 20 big ones and it's perfectly legal. I'm not sure if they actually eat it or leave it in the freezer to get freezer burned.
@@BackroadsAngling the guys around me eat them, which is one pro. But in California where I am the limit is 2 and they must be 18” or bigger.
@@BackroadsAnglingthey sell them