Eastcoast/Westcoast Stripers

[Double Trouble]

I would like that it would be good to see how similar the Bass are from one coast to the other so ask away T.[/quote]

DT
Around here they use sand fleas or anchovies (wrapped in panty hose) thrown from the beach. I've had zero success with that technique.  In the lakes I've used live bait free-lined with moderate success.

Just so everybody knows whats going on here T Race and I started discussing Striped Bass Techniques on the east verses west coast.

OK T are the anchovies and sand fleas the actual bait or is it chum.My favorite style is livelining or chunking usually anchored and sometimes drifting over structure or along rips in the bay along jetties leading to the inlets.I have some great spots within 15 minu
tes of my dock one is a bridge that I can get bass on just about every time I anchor there. I have had fish there to 40 lbs. Ok now to get to technique I use live bunker (manhaden) or bunker chunks most of the time I can usually net or snag enough for a days fishing in an hour but you have to be willing to get out at 4 am and hunt around the creeks.
As for trolling that is mostly done outside in the ocean using Bunker spoons,Umbrella rigs and Paracutes I only use the trolling method when all else fails and I have passengers on board and have to get fish. That was pretty long winded but those are my techniques nothing special but they put fish in the boat.

[John Jones]

What about landlocked?

Alabama Record
55 lbs 0 oz
Tallapoosa River

There are lots of huge landlocked striper records.
http://stripersurf.com/staterecords.html

A big white bucktail jig in the deep holes or in the dam tailrace works for me.
There are a few stripers in the bays and rivers on the northern Gulf coast but most are small.

[GoneFission]

I was at Santee when Tiny Lund caught the record at that time - 54+ lbs.  That record held until 1977 - the current freshwater record is from CA at 67.5 lbs.  The saltwater record is 81 lbs and the fish was probably 35-40 years old.  

Some of the best striper fishing on Earth is the spring run on the Roanoke River near Weldon, NC.  A 100-fish day is not uncommon, with an occassional 60 lb. fish caught.  Lots of 25-40 lb. fish in there with thousands of smaller spawners.  The season starts on March 1, with the peak in late April or early May.  They will hit about anything, but prefer herring, small eels, or white streamers/grubs.  It's a blast catching them on a flyrod!  Sometimes you will see a big female holding in the river with 4-5 smaller male suitors around her.  You can keep up with what's going on at the following website:  http://www.ncwildlife.org/News/NewsArti ... fault.aspx  

See ya on the water!

[gran398]

The gent speaks the truth. When the stars align, best striper run on the east coast.

[T Race]

I would like that it would be good to see how similar the Bass are from one coast to the other so ask away T.

DT
Around here they use sand fleas or anchovies (wrapped in panty hose) thrown from the beach. I've had zero success with that technique.  In the lakes I've used live bait free-lined with moderate success.

Just so everybody knows whats going on here T Race and I started discussing Striped Bass Techniques on the east verses west coast.

OK T are the anchovies and sand fleas the actual bait or is it chum.My favorite style is livelining or chunking usually anchored and sometimes drifting over structure or along rips in the bay along jetties leading to the inlets.I have some great spots within 15 minu
tes of my dock one is a bridge that I can get bass on just about every time I anchor there. I have had fish there to 40 lbs. Ok now to get to technique I use live bunker (manhaden) or bunker chunks most of the time I can usually net or snag enough for a days fishing in an hour but you have to be willing to get out at 4 am and hunt around the creeks.
As for trolling that is mostly done outside in the ocean using Bunker spoons,Umbrella rigs and Paracutes I only use the trolling method when all else fails and I have passengers on board and have to get fish. That was pretty long winded but those are my techniques nothing special but they put fish in the boat.[/quote]

DT,
       Thanks for that awesome fishing report, but.....

.... you left out what we all really, really want to know about:  How in the heck is your git'along makin' out ??

...er, how is your knee healing up ?   We sure hope no complications and everything going as fine as frog's hair.

Now, you say that was a "long winded' reply concerning your fishing techniques.  I beg to differ. A long winded reply would be something along the lines of :
    You: "Blah, blah, blah - and then you're gonna wanna blah, blah..."
    Me, thinking to myself: "Geez, I git it already...my Pabst Blue Ribbon has been empty these last 5 minutes an' I'm THIRSTY !"

For me, 'long winded' as applied to 'talking fishing' ....well, it can be done but its realhard.   :tongue:   Oh, and before I forget, the anchovies in the panty hose - that is the bait, as well are the sand fleas.  But, like I said, I have given that up.

So DT, I did some snooping around.  I found out just exactly what you said about the chunking and the free-lining live bait.   Live bait are here a'swimming around, but here in the land of the free (Oh, I can't wait to rock out'a this place...) cast nets for bait is Verbotten.  

So this one guy reports that he catches sardines and anchovies and a couple other varieties of bait by grinding up dry dogfood and chumming until the bait fish show up and then hoisting them aboard with Sabiki rigs.  That is doable for me, possibly, so I will try that.  That is also primo bait for California halibut.

The ocean striper movement heats up in April, so I will give these techniques a go and see what happens.

DT, hope that git'along is healing up smartly and we expect great things down the road  

Thanks heaps for your tips and advise and the very Best Wishes on your speedy recovery, Trace

[Double Trouble]

Thanksd I hope your Tfor your well wishes and hope your new system works. As for me I may have ton things heat up  change my bait catching technique as I probably wont be able to throw a cast net by April which is also when things heat up around here rig t now I am having therapy 3 times a week and when I am done with that I am on a solid day of percoset and a lot of sleep.

[ElGuapo222]

I've been addicted to striper fishing for more than a decade now and some of my favorite- go to- techniques are live eels at night and switching to tin (kastmasters/hopkins etc) just before sunup or tossing a pencil popper.  equally effective from the beach,rocks, or a boat.  last season being my first full season "boat fishing" I had some success with tube n worm rigs and umbrella rigs, but, at @ $50.00 a piece for umbrella rigs the learing curve was expensive!  smack-it jr's were very productive at first light and nothing beats watching a bass going after topwater lures.

[T Race]

I've been addicted to striper fishing for more than a decade now and some of my favorite- go to- techniques are live eels at night and switching to tin (kastmasters/hopkins etc) just before sunup or tossing a pencil popper.  equally effective from the beach,rocks, or a boat.  last season being my first full season "boat fishing" I had some success with tube n worm rigs and umbrella rigs, but, at @ $50.00 a piece for umbrella rigs the learing curve was expensive!  smack-it jr's were very productive at first light and nothing beats watching a bass going after topwater lures.

Cool, Mr. Guapo !!

Thanks for adding to the mix.  Man, I wish we could get some live eels 'round this joint.

They appear to be gang-busters for you guys.  

What size and color tin has produced for you in the past ?

I have a whole sh!tbag of pencil poppers - never a nibble.  But that was from the shore... I will be trying from the boat this season and maybe I will be singing a different tune !!!

20 to 40 pound fish are not uncommon off of our beaches nearby.  This Spring I am going to target halibut and stripers, both real good eating fish.  

Thanks again and good luck to you this season, T

[ElGuapo222]

What size and color tin has produced for you in the past ?

T,
I usually toss a 3oz kastmaster either all silver or half silver half blue with a single white bucktail hook.  Bluefish and trebles are a pain in the neck.  My personal best last year actually came fishing the cape cod canal=bottom bouncing a 2oz lead jig w/ a 16'' eel attached to it 28#striper.  As far as pencils my favorites are mackerel patterns followed by all white then yellow/white.  From the boat I'm using lighter gear so weights and sizes are scaled down.....except for eels...big eels....big fish.
tight lines.
Steve

[T Race]

What size and color tin has produced for you in the past ?

T,
I usually toss a 3oz kastmaster either all silver or half silver half blue with a single white bucktail hook.  Bluefish and trebles are a pain in the neck.  My personal best last year actually came fishing the cape cod canal=bottom bouncing a 2oz lead jig w/ a 16'' eel attached to it 28#striper.  As far as pencils my favorites are mackerel patterns followed by all white then yellow/white.  From the boat I'm using lighter gear so weights and sizes are scaled down.....except for eels...big eels....big fish.
tight lines.
Steve

Excellent, most excellent.  Thanks bro.  Do you have any  photos of your stripers and/or your boat ?

[ElGuapo222]

first "fresh fish" keeper of the 2012 season


early morning on a smack it jr.  sea lice confirms that it recently arrived from, who knows where, maybe the outerbanks.  tight lines erveryone!
Steve.

[RickK]

 

[T Race]

first "fresh fish" keeper of the 2012 season

early morning on a smack it jr.  sea lice confirms that it recently arrived from, who knows where, maybe the outerbanks.  tight lines erveryone!
Steve.

Well done, Mr. Guapo !   CAPITAL !!  

You're off to a wicked good start.  Tight lines my brother !!

[TheKid]

West Coast Stripers are almost gone. At least the big ones.

Most of fish caught are in the SFBay.

In Monterey from boat, best bet is to slow troll diving plugs and/or live sardines as close to the beach as possible. Easier up in the north part of the Bay by the Manressa and Sea Cliff. Come June/July with a NW swell you can get up on the beach with your boat.

Fun Stuff

By catch is Halibut too doing it this way.

Trace, your freezer stocked with king salmon yet? The first three weeks of this season have been ridiculous.

[T Race]

West Coast Stripers are almost gone. At least the big ones.

Most of fish caught are in the SFBay.

In Monterey from boat, best bet is to slow troll diving plugs and/or live sardines as close to the beach as possible. Easier up in the north part of the Bay by the Manressa and Sea Cliff. Come June/July with a NW swell you can get up on the beach with your boat.

Fun Stuff

By catch is Halibut too doing it this way.

Trace, your freezer stocked with king salmon yet? The first three weeks of this season have been ridiculous.

Big E, it is very good to hear from you.  I take it you are tired of salmon already !  

Geez, a few photos for the rest of us would be right kind of you.  

I am still struggling, I have only had my downrigger a week. Mooching was a disaster with 20 kt winds, now have a drift sock.  My bud took me on his sweet 38 footer, and I got one nice 15 pounder.

The problem is these f*cking ramps, or the lack of.  These guys back East would roll laughing with tears in their eyes (and rightly so) if they saw two hundred trailer boats launching from a single ramps at Moss or Santa Cruz harbor. That is just wrong.  Can't get close to Soquel hole !!

My other pard hooked up a REAL nice fish (over 20) off of Pt. Pinos but he threw the hook getting him positioned for the net. I am going out of Moss on Monday for Soquel, but I think the seas are going to be sporty, about 7 - 9 unless the NOAA forecast drops it a bit.   We are still debating.

Surely you must have some fishing porn to share ?    By the way, when do you expect he WSB to start in the bay ?