New lessons at Striper School

[dkalish]

Lesson 22 - "How to remove a fishing hook from flesh and fingers: http://dougkalish.com/school_files/page0027.htm

Lesson 21 - "Hot new equipment and ideas for Stripers" The Santee Cooper Rig—Drift fishing or slow trolling for Stripers can be exciting if you use the right rigs see http://dougkalish.com/school_files/page0026.htm

Also, we have created the Striper Fishing Log Book for the fishing enthusiast to log his or her personal experience from each fishing trip or outing. Information like Date, Location, Weather, Baits and GPS Waypoints can be easily referenced from your log to help improve your successes and it's free - just pay postage and handling. See http://dougkalish.com/school_files/page0023.htm

Ask for our free new CD "The Unique Life and Attributes of Morones Saxatilis" (Striped Bass) free if you send self addressed, stamped ($1.85 postage) envelope (large enough to hold a CD) or send $5 to save time and energy to: Doug Kalish, 3736 Harts Place, Chamblee, GA 30341

[Jay]

Doug Kalish received this email from a reader and passed it onto me - I thought it should be shared with our readers. I'm also going to put it in the Lake Murray forum.

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Hi Doug, your CD sounds like a fun project. Have your ever heard of the Westway Highway project that was proposed to be built on the Hudson River in New York back in the late 70's early 80's? It was a big victory for the Striped Bass at a time when the fishery was really struggling. Being employed as an environmental professional, I've always been interested in stories where environmental permitting applications and Striped Bass collide. If we want to be successful in protecting Striped Bass habitat in the future, then we've got to learn and improve from our successes and failures of the past. You know who I'm pulling for!...lol We have a situation now here at Lake Murray with SCE&G renewing their license to operate for the next 30-50 years and wondering how they are going to manage the flow at the towers to improve water quality and increase oxygen levels in the lake. I think SCE&G should be responsible for initiating a study on the copepod infestation here but SCE&G has "declined". They say their operations aren't a factor in all this. Their dam certainly effects the population of blueback herring and migration/spawning in the river system. The copepods are indigenous to the lake but something has caused the population to explode. My first thought is that its a predator/prey relationship that is out of whack. The baitfish that feed on the copepods may be on decline but DNR hasn't done any kind of baitfish assessment in years. A DNR biologist agreed that I "may be on to something" when I made comments at a recent public hearing on the copepods but it apparently wasn't enough to compel SCE&G to do the study. Their mentality has been, if the 2-5 year old stripers are fat and healthy, then there must be plenty for them to eat. This lake is the toughest lake I've ever been on to try and catch Gizzard shad. You very rarely see them flipping and I can throw to lighted docks at night for hours and maybe get 5 or 6. The last time any Rotenone cove studies to assess Gizzard shad or blueback herring population densities was in 1991, but we've stocked about 15 million Striper fingerlings since then and who knows how many of them shad eating Cormorants we have around here. If we had significant levels of blueback herring, the bait sellers, would catch their bait here instead of driving to Lake Russell.