i know a creek on Neely that is full of stripers and sometimes they are huge.

Yep, Logan Martin and Weiss too. And way up in there where people don't take their fiberglass bass boats. I used to catch them in June and July in a few creeks that the only option was to float it downstream because to run upstream you would have to get out and wade upstream pulling the boat (aluminum jon) as you go in several places to get to the holes where the big ones hung out. That's just too much work for my old fat azz now.