Iowa Fortune Guide Service

Well here we are once again on the cusp of another Striper season which will hopefully deliver another action packed year as those of past. This season you will be treated to the experience of being guided on my new Maverick HPX-V 17 which will silently get us even closer to those tailing Bass than ever before. You will find the details and pix of the new skiff on the Boat page of my site. Now that we are approaching mid season now is the time to start focusing on Fall dates and as most of you know, my dates fill quickly especially in the Spring and Fall. For a list of my NJ 2010 dates e-mail me. The 2009 Striper season as a whole was a productive one with some very memorable days logged with mini blitzes popping up throughout the back country offering fast paced action in the skinniest of waters. The last few weeks of the season were purely top notch with huge schools of migrating Bass making their way across the shallows in a feeding frenzy. The entire season was a very stealthy one with a tactical top water bite and a red hot subsurface bite, but I must say that when they did hit on top water it required focus and patience like on my 10/20 trip, and when you found them subsurface they were thick as thieves, 05/22, 06/23, 10/12 & 11/03. This season’s largest groups of Bass moved in early November and stayed around steady for the remainder of the fall season. As it happened, the largest Bass for the 2009 season was a tie, one with my annual Halloween clients, with 20 knt NE winds. This beast was taken on 11/06 by Wayne Chieppa in 3 feet of water, 5th cast of the trip and a real trophy back country Bass and the other a week later on 11/10 by Dave Yen and a great way to end the season. If you wish to receive weekly fishing reports and stay on top of the action (click here) stating you would like to be added to the list.