Coho, you think, that's for sure where ever there are trout the predation is at a high level from many species, otters and Herons are way up there as are larger fish species, birds of prey, mink, coons, you name it.
By the way where were those stripers caught. In AR it is illegal to use trout or parts of for bait, not in OK, unless they changed the regs, you can harvest bows from the river and then use them for bait, 6 a day if l remember.
I am interested to know were those stripers found bows to eat.

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