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Short Wave Sportfishing

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:12:05 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Jul 23, 9:51*am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

I've learned a lot in the past few days including the care and feeding
of the blue back herring - that was really interesting. *Didn't even
think of things like ammonia and Ph balance in the live well - the use
of rock salt and ice was something new to me too. *I think I'm going
to have to rerig myh live well with carbon filters and change the
recycle system a little. *The next few days of looking into this will
be fun.

Blueback's are hard to keep alive even with the best of conditions. A
round tank is really helpful, believe it or not.

Yeah - that was interesting. Apparently, they like to hang in the
corners of the tank and deplete the oxygen level there. You wouldn't
think that in a 35 gallon live well that wouildn't be a problem, but
after thinking about it, makes some sense.

Also something that I would have never thought of - the strength of
the recycle system in terms of water pressure - you don't need a lot
of power because they will hang near the spray and if it's strong, it
will know off their scales.

It has been a learning experience.

I was using a drop shot technique to get the herring down - I normally
don't drop shot a lot preferring more natural techniques with
artificial lures - this live bait thing has been an experience.

One technique when they are feeding well, is finding a bunch of
stripers, noting the depth they are at, then downlining live bait. If
they are shallow, then flatline, using little weight like a splitshot,
then when you are trolling around the pod of stripers, then bait will
rise and fall with the boat. Also, keep a rig with a 1/2 oz. white
bucktail jig ready, when you see a baitfish frenzy on top of the
water, start ripping that jig into them.

Cool - that's good info.