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More political cut and paste from Harry..
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:15:32 -0800, "CalifBill"
wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
. ..
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:25:22 -0800 (PST), wrote:
On Jan 19, 12:05 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is Here
wrote:
wrote:
On Jan 18, 5:21 pm, HK wrote:
wrote:
On Jan 18, 1:02 pm, HK wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:56:13 -0400, "Don White"
wrote:
I don't know if WayneD still takes out paying fishing
customers,
but if so I
imagine he'd just pass any additional costs on to them.
Why not - I do. :)
Now, I can see paying to watch you fish...just for the
entertainment
value... :}
No, if it's entertainment you want, come watch me fish. It's like,
I
know there is something down there in the water, but I still have
not
really figured out what it is.. After all, once in a while when I
do
catch one it's not in the water anymore, it's all very confusing..
Well, if you ever get your butt down here, let me know, and we'll
go
out
and find some flounder or other good eating fish. It's only the
plonkers
who chase after stripers, or, as they usually spell it,
"strippers."
Another example of *if Harry doesn't do it, own it, or like it, no
one
else should*. Millions of striper fisherman in the U.S., but they
are
all idiots because Harry doesn't striper fish.......
I am wondering why Harry thinks only Plonkers (whatever that is)likes
to
fish for stripers? They seem to have everything one could want in a
fish, they taste good and fight like hell. They also can get very
large.- Hide quoted text -
I've fished for a lot of different species in a lot of different
waters, and striper fishing rates right up there with some of the
best.
I'll say this for freshwater stripers - they are a different sort of
striper. When I was fishing Lakes Moultrie, Marion and Murray this
summer, I was surprised at the size of the fish and their behavior.
Even the lighter schoolies put up a decent fight and on a medium 8
foot fly rod - whoo hoo!!
They have an interesting behavior that was new to me. I was watching
the fish finder and ran into a rather broad school of blue back
herring. I sat on top of the school and just kind of watched it
drift. After a few minutes you could see fish markers coming in from
the sides and the school start to ball up - eventually starting to
rise from around 100'.
Next thing you know, the herring are on the surface and the stripers
were busting them from below.
Never seen that before - stripers, at least salt water stripers, are
lazy and generally ambush predators.
Maybe on the Wrong coast they are lazy. But out here they will heard the
anchovies into the beach and go on a feeding frenzy.
Oh, the schoolies will do the same here, but they have to compete with
bluefish which are highly aggressive. Generally, when you see birds
working the surface, it's because bluefish chased them up.
Stripers will hang below the bluefish and then they are pretty much
finished, that's prime time for the more aggressive schoolie stripers.
Larger stripers, say over 20 lbs, tend to be opportunistic feeders
hanging along and around structure and break points.
Next time I go down to Watch Hill Light, I'll take some pictures of
prime East Coast striper territory.
While at San
Francisco State University, I spend many an afternoon a few blocks west
fishing the beaches for stripers. You waited until you saw the birds
going
crazy and raced down the beach to start throwing jigs for the stripers.
Lots of times they would be at your feet.
Up here, it's blue fish city when that happens.
No Bluefish out here. You will get salmon in the feeding frenzy at times.
Which is always a nice suprize.
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