Sutton Lake Wilmington

[mulletman]

Decide to try my luck at Sutton Lake again for bass. Got there about 6am to find that a club tourniment was going on. I have a canoe no motor yet so me and my son(5) made our way slowly across the main lake I managed to catch 5 bass on top water Pop'R about 2-3 lbs before getting mobbed by tourniment boats. I paddled around a why then decide to try the hot ditch and caught one more bass about 1 1/2 lbs on a fluke. At the mouth of the ditch we decide to anchor for few minutes and saw some fish breaking surface. At first I thought it was huge largemouth bass but to my shock it was not. It was stripers looking 15-20 lbs I had only heard about them in the lake before, they started chasing bait and coming completely out of the water. I through my Fluke at them but no luck, I don't know what to us for stripers? The only stripers I have caught were at Falls Lake Beaver Dam on spinner baits looking for largemouth the few month I was there back in 1999 from a kayak which is long gone.