Tim took Daniel & Shelby striper fishing on Clinch River.  We'd be trophy hunting, so passing on the river with more plentiful bites from smaller fish and hoping for fewer bites, but from larger fish. 

First order of business was catching bait.  Well we found some shad, but one of the casts caught a nice drum too.  While fishing, we kept casting small plugs for more bait - trout.  We caught rainbow, brown, & brook trout for baits (preferred over the shad).  Tim caught a nice hybrid on a small Rapala he was using for trout.  We had lots of blow ups on our baits and obviously big striper mouthing our baits, but few real bites.  Late in the day Shelby proved he had the magic touch, landing the only striper, a nice fat 25 lb. class fish.

Well we were trying to catch trout on a 3" Rapala, but we'll take this instead, a 12# hybrid...

 and the video... 

 Here's Shelby's monster striper... (video 1st)

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Tim took Aaron and Tucker the day before.  They caught over 30 fish, here's the biggest, a nice 17# fish for Tucker: