On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:00:44 -0500, HK wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

You and Harry are wrong on that - with all due respect.

Gear that heavy is used for freakin' tuna, not stripers.

As to the boat stopping, that's why God invented gear/throttle
shifters.

You know - like take the boat out of gear?


The boys down here troll huge umbrella rigs, Tom. They're very heavy.
Fifty pound line is probably on the light size for some of the umbrella
rigs I have seen. They don't stop because if they do, the umbrella rigs
sink to the bottom and snag or foul each other.

It's a lousy way to fish. The damned rigs weigh so much and have so much
water resistance when you tug them aboard, it's like hauling in dead
weight, even when you have a fish.

Some of the guys also tow planer boards or use siderigger poles. All
this for a fish whose fighting abilities in the Bay are mediocre at best
and whose taste is...nothing special. If you want fun catching a Bay
striper, you want light tackle and no more than 14# line or even better,
you want to use maybe an 8 weight flyrod to pitch a fly on sinking line
into a pod of baitfish.

I find striper fishing around here really boring, and rarely go after
them. There's a bit of structure here and there in the Bay, and there
are hard bottoms on the other side; that's where I go.

Harry, I've not used an umbrella rig for ages. In fact, except for the big
charter boats, most folks *don't* use a bunch of umbrella rigs.
--
Red Herring