krause

who the hell cares about your social assistant fishing trip. I mean how did
they take all of you on that Sunday afternoon? Social assistance weekend
fishing trip? Probably 50 of you morons on a fishing charter? lol,,,
krause,,, what are you,, some kind of a marooooon??









"Harry.Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:
"John H" wrote in message
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Got a late start this morning 'cause dummy me forgot to call the marina
and have
the boat put in the water. Oh well.

Left Deale, MD, about 8 AM, got out to marker #83 and put the lines out.
We ran
4 tandem parachute rigs and two umbrellas. After about two hours of
nothing, my
good friend OldFart decided we needed to check and clean the lures. Sure
enough,
most were dirty.

Put everything back in the water and within about 15 minutes had our
first
strike of the day. Rich (Gimp) pulled in a 40 1/2 "er, which set a new
boat
record for the Poco Loco. It was caught on a bucktail with a 9" Bass
Assassin
attached. (We had lost one of the parachute rigs on a log or something a
little
earlier. Actually, we lost an umbrella at about the same time, on the
same log I
expect.)

About a half hour later, around noon, the line sings again and OldFart
pulled in
a 38"er. Just those two about filled the cooler! The second one was
caught on
one of OldFart's hand made bucktails with a 6" sassy shad (white). Both
of these
were caught almost directly east of North Beach in about 42 feet of
water,
trolling at about 3.2 mph.

The weather was perfect, the company was spectacular, and the cooler was
pretty
full. We played around another hour or so and called it a day. What a
great day
it was.


Cool report.

Do you guys troll plugs, too? Or just plastic-tipped jigs?

What depth do you figure the jigs are running at? The reason I ask, is
that we use Mann's Stretch 25's and 30's to troll for gag grouper on the
near-shore reefs/wrecks in November through April. The Stretch 25's and
30's are designed to dive to 25' and 30', respectively, without the
assistance of a planer or a downrigger when trolling approximately 5mph.
If you use powerpro line (or similar), the lures will run down 30-45'.

I wonder if the same lures would work well on stripers up by you?




I've used Mann's Stretch 25's for stripers up here. They're pretty
popular, as are bucktails. I hate trolling in the bay. If I really want to
catch stripers, I find structure and cast to it, or drift fish with live
bait, or look for birds diving. Most of the time, there will be stripers
under the birds, unless there are blues under the birds. I'd rather catch
blues on my light tackle. Considering their size, stripers are anemic
fighters.