FIRST STRIPER!
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FIRST STRIPER!
So, Im up here in Mass, went out to the beach, second cast with an old bass popper and rusty hooks and boom, schoolie striper! I ended up with 3 fish! Im going to go get me some more salt water poppers tomorrow it was AWESOME! this one went about 18" or so, the others were much smaller.
the 40 degree weather didnt bug me much!
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the 40 degree weather didnt bug me much!
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- basshole69
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Re: FIRST STRIPER!
now that is a decent striper...caught it by the jetty? btw are you on a budget? they have some charters that can take you on the south side of Nantucket to catch big striper
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Re: FIRST STRIPER!
Nice striper man. You don't need a charter to catch big ones, I got a 43" 31 lber from the beach at Chatham about 8 years ago on a live eel on the bottom at night.basshole69 wrote:now that is a decent striper...caught it by the jetty? btw are you on a budget? they have some charters that can take you on the south side of Nantucket to catch big striper
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that ones not bad at all...good job Rory...the only reason I mentioned it was because when I went to Mass. in 2006, my road trip buddies and I chartered with Tuna Tyem and they put us on huge lunker stripers...we each caught like six that were close to 50#PhishingPhanatic wrote:Nice striper man. You don't need a charter to catch big ones, I got a 43" 31 lber from the beach at Chatham about 8 years ago on a live eel on the bottom at night.basshole69 wrote:now that is a decent striper...caught it by the jetty? btw are you on a budget? they have some charters that can take you on the south side of Nantucket to catch big striper
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Re: FIRST STRIPER!
They are great to eat too. Is the limit still 28" up there?
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yup. 28" and two fish per dayPhishingPhanatic wrote:They are great to eat too. Is the limit still 28" up there?
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Re: FIRST STRIPER!
Nice Striper... Beautiful ocean and pictures from up north too.
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nice job swordfish, welcome to frigid mass. lol, the cape has great freshwater fishing too in the winter when the salt goes dead, you got at least 3 weeks left to get a cow striper b4 they head to chesapeake, good luck
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Re: FIRST STRIPER!
Where are you at in MA? You are in the fall run right now. Most striper fishermen up there are looking for 40lb class fish.
Forget the poppers. Find some rocks and throw live eels at night. No weight. Cast let sink and reel SLOWLY rod tip high. When you feel a bump lower your tip, if using circle hook open your bail and let run, set hook and hold on. If you must throw plugs you want metal lipped swimmers, pencil poppers for sunrise if fish are exploding.
For the Cape Cod canal go to Wal-Mart and buy 3&4oz Sea Striker jigs (inexpensive and the hook wont bend) tip these with gulp 7" chartreuse pepper neon jerk shad or large pre-rigged swimbaits. Cast upstream and when you feel bottom jig (lift rod from 9-12) the bait across the current. If you hook up in the canal a 10lb fish will feel like 30 in the current.
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Forget the poppers. Find some rocks and throw live eels at night. No weight. Cast let sink and reel SLOWLY rod tip high. When you feel a bump lower your tip, if using circle hook open your bail and let run, set hook and hold on. If you must throw plugs you want metal lipped swimmers, pencil poppers for sunrise if fish are exploding.
For the Cape Cod canal go to Wal-Mart and buy 3&4oz Sea Striker jigs (inexpensive and the hook wont bend) tip these with gulp 7" chartreuse pepper neon jerk shad or large pre-rigged swimbaits. Cast upstream and when you feel bottom jig (lift rod from 9-12) the bait across the current. If you hook up in the canal a 10lb fish will feel like 30 in the current.
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You MUST have korkers of some type to fish the rocks or jettys or you will die.
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Re: FIRST STRIPER!
Go to stripers247 and see if Rickski will sell you a Ski Gunnyrunner. This one took 11 legal sized fish in 4 hours at the canal this spring.
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Re: FIRST STRIPER!
Wow thx so much for all the info and wicked nice fish! Im living in East Dennis, Sesuit Harbor basically 3 minutes away! I havent been able to get out more but when I did I did ok on small fish! I wanna try some thou, been told the keepers are tasty!
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how's the weather been up there?
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