Name:   Aardvark - Subject:   New Member Date:   12/12/2016 11:39:17 PM

As far as I can tell, striper fishing on Martin is mainly confined to deep trolling.  Not much is said about the topwater bite, but I don't know if that is because few people pursue it or those that do are very tight lipped.  I have a friend who was catching stripes in shallower water near Still Waters when nobody could catch anything deep with dynamite.  My brother insists that he has caught big stripes way up Little Kowaliga.  When I posted a picture on Facebook of some people fishing near the middle about a mile upstream of Real Island, he said that was where he caught them.  Other than that, upriver close to Alex City gets a lot of mentions here, as do Pleasure Point, near The Rock, under the power lines power lines by The Ridge, and around the Kowaliga Bridge.  The only place I have ever caught a decent sized striper was in The Narrows.  They run upriver in the spring and try to spawn, but be careful with a boat because it gets very shallow up that way, especially when the water is down.  I know that this is generalized, but it might help[ you narrow down your search.