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Striped Bass  Q - When do Striped Bass start to make an appearance?A - The bigger ones usually show when they start to make their migration to the north for the summer which starts usually the end of May. Then in the fall they start with the full moon in October to the full moon in November to make their way home for the winter months. We have a resident population that hangs around for the full year. They are all the males and the young females that are not ready to start a family. Only the females do the migration. Q - What would be the bait of choice today? A - You could use blood worms, sand worms, bunker (fresh or fresh frozen) cut salt bunker and clams. With the bunker you can cut it into bite size pieces using a pompano rig, regular float rig with or without a float along with a pyramid sinker. You can also steak it like a salmon steak. Use about a 8/0 or 9/0 hook along with a fish finder and a pyramid sinker. The circle hooks are becoming popular with them. You put your rod in a sand spike and sit down to relax, you must let the fish hook himself or else you will loose him (her). Q - Are eels a good bait if so how would you fish them? A - Eels are a favorite of many fisherpersons. There are a couple of ways to hook them. One is 1 1/2 inches from the tip of the tail with about a 5/0 hook and put a fish finder on the line before any thing else. Be careful not to hit the spine. Cast it out carefully and let the eel do the work for you. Another way is in the head either under the jaw out the eye or in the back of the head. But the tail is the most popular because he will not curl up the line. Q - Could you use artificial lures for Bass? A - The swimming plugs are a popular one to use such as the bomber, which you retreive in ever so slowly and if you think you are going slow enough go slower, red fins are also a slow retrieve, needle fish have an action all of their own. They are retreived in a slow jerky motion just like they swim. You can use metal lures, they are retrieved slow on the bottom of the ocean, with a jerk motion to smiulate a sand eel coming out of the sand. Some times they will go after it if you skip it across the top of the water when you are fishing for the blues. | ||||||||
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