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Welcome to the Smith Mountain Striper Club Website

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The Smith Mountain Striper Club would like to welcome you to our home on the World Wide Web!  It is our goal with this web-site to provide timely and useful information regarding the Club as well as the striped bass fishery on Smith Mountain Lake for both our existing and prospective members as well as the general public.  You will find some sections here which require a password - these sections are for Club members only - we'd welcome to have you as a part of the Club and gain access to this content.   However, we still want to make other useful information about Striper fishing and the stewardship of our fishery available to the general public so look for lots of other useful material here as well.  Should you encounter any issues with the site (broken links, etc), or if you have any suggestions on how we can make the site a better place for striper anglers, please drop us a note via the Contact Us page.


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Below is a listing of the latest additions to the Smith Mountain Striper Club Website:
  • 6/18/13 - New entry in "From the Water", Water Temperature updates & 4H Camp pics posted
  • 6/12/13 - Added Striper Boat Show pics to gallery, May Board meeting minutes posted.
  • 6/6/13 - Added info on July Tourney registration, pics from the Bedford Youth Day, updated Water Temps & "From the Water" blogs.
  • 5/29/13 - Added a profile of member Andre' Peery in Meet the Members.
  • 5/28/13 - Added info on the In-Water Striper Boat Show - 6/8/13
  • 5/23/13 - Added linked to "In the Community" to news articles on Club activities as well as new items to Ship's Store

4H Volunteers Needed!

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Summer is upon us and that means children will be arriving at the 4H Camp and looking forward to spending some time fishing off the banks / docks of Smith Mountain Lake .  This year, as in years past, the Smith Mountain Striper Club is providing volunteers to help these campers in this activity. 

We urgently need volunteers to sign up to assist with this activity.  Camps start next week and at present we only have one person signed up to help.  

Dates which need staffing include: June 4,5,6,11,12,13,18,19.20,25,26,27.  This is a 1/2 day commitment - arriving to the 4H Center at 8:30 am to help prep the rods & bait and then assist the campers in fishing from 9 till noon.

If you can assist with this important activity, please contact Macky May at (540) 719-2244, or reply to the Club e-mail here and we'll help connect you with Macky.  Please consider spending one (or more) mornings of your time during this month with these 4H Campers to share your passion and the joy of fishing with these children - you can personally help be responsible for instilling a love of fishing in our next generation of kids.

Thanks!


July Member-Guest Tourney Registration Open - Closes 7/12

Registration for the July tournament (7/20) is now open and we will have a table setup at Friday's Club meeting.    Registration will close on Friday, 7/12, so please go ahead and get your registration info in now.

May Member/Guest Tournament Results

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Our 2nd tournament for 2013 is in the books - a nice gully washer signaled the end to the day's fishing but we still had a good turn-out overall.  29 fish were measured in with 11 anglers bringing a 2-fish total to the check-in.    Congrats to Chris May for one again winning "Big Fish" with a nice 33" striper.

Hope you will all join us for our next Member-Guest tourney on July 20.
For more info, see our Website - http://www.smithmountainstriperclub.com/tournament-info.html

Congrats to the winners!  Awards will be presented at the June 7th Club Meeting.

Full Tournament Series standings can be found here.

Open Class:
1st - Chris May - 63.75" total length
2nd - Macky May - 62.25" total length
3rd -  Mike Ward - 57.25" total length
Artificial-only Class:
1st - Steve Nagel - 53.25" total length
2nd - Don Hutchinson - 50.5" total length
3rd -  Bill Pecoraro - 24.75 total length
Youth Class:
1st - Noah Quinn - 26.5" total length
2nd - Stephen Bartnett - 22" total length
3rd - Barret Brown - 13.75" total length

The Ship's Store is Stocked!

A selection of Pocket-T's, long-sleeve shirts, as well as a few long-sleeve Sun Blocker shirts are now available  Ship's Store along with the Club stickers & flags.  Shirts range from $14-$25, Stickers $17.5-$2/ea and the flags are $15.
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