About Madd Jack

This page is a brief summary of my striper fishing experience. In the 70's I started striper fishing on Lake Wilson, Kansas it began purely by accident. One cold January day a friend called and invited me to go ice fishing I told him he was nutts, that I would go hunting but not fishing. He insisted so I went. We ended up in the Catfish point area of Wilson and in 10 minutes I hooked a 8 lb. striper on lite tackle. Seeing that fish thru the ice it looked to be a monster. I still believe that fish hooked me worse than I did him. From then on it was a quest to catch more, find out all I could about these linesided tackle breakers. I fished alone for several years as most of my friends were not interested, or patient enough to catch stripers, they wanted walleye or whites but I was on a mission and wanted nothing to do with these small frys. By this time I had read all that I could find on stripers and had developed a catching technique by trolling large lures. At this time there was a tournament circuit fishing Wilson sponsored by Striper Magazine. I simply watched the first couple, didn't even enter trying to find out more. I finally enter one, I placed 12th. Now I had found people like me who were on the same quest and some were more than willing to share there knowledge, I was in heaven. I fished the circuit for several year, in Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennesee, Texas and placed in the top ten on many occasions. I also qualified 3 times to fish Striperama which is a qualification tournament which allows the top ten from each state to complete for big money and prizes. This circuit is no longer in existence and that is too bad for those of you on the quest I am on. So with over 22 years of striper fishing experience I do my best to put you and yours on top of these tackle breakers in hopes that you will enjoy them as much as I do. Good Fishing, Madd Jack

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