Good yarn Dale. I think those smaller stripers are the best eating. What did you catch them with,
bait or lures?

I bait fish when sturgeon fishing - and I use only eel. Stripers
aren't too fond of it and don't hit it very often, but sometimes
they'll try to steal it. It's so tough that they never succeed with
their nips and rips.

On Nov 26, 8:21*pm, Dale Gillespie wrote:
Good yarn Dale. I think those smaller stripers are the best eating. What did you catch them with,
bait or lures?

I bait fish when sturgeon fishing - and I use only eel. Stripers
aren't too fond of it and don't hit it very often, but sometimes
they'll try to steal it. It's so tough that they never succeed with
their nips and rips.

Odd that they'd try to steal bait they don't really like.

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:47:22 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

On Nov 26, 8:21*pm, Dale Gillespie wrote:
Good yarn Dale. I think those smaller stripers are the best eating. What did you catch them with,
bait or lures?

I bait fish when sturgeon fishing - and I use only eel. Stripers
aren't too fond of it and don't hit it very often, but sometimes
they'll try to steal it. It's so tough that they never succeed with
their nips and rips.

Odd that they'd try to steal bait they don't really like.

===

Yes, and up in New England they fish for Stripers with eels, both real
and artificial.

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:33:24 -0500, Wayne.B wrote:

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:47:22 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

On Nov 26, 8:21*pm, Dale Gillespie wrote:
Good yarn Dale. I think those smaller stripers are the best eating. What did you catch them with,
bait or lures?

I bait fish when sturgeon fishing - and I use only eel. Stripers
aren't too fond of it and don't hit it very often, but sometimes
they'll try to steal it. It's so tough that they never succeed with
their nips and rips.

Odd that they'd try to steal bait they don't really like.

===

Yes, and up in New England they fish for Stripers with eels, both real
and artificial.

Same in the Chesapeake. Foot-long artificial eels are used regularly, although I never caught a
striper on one. I never tried live eels. Didn't have a place I could leave a trap, and was too cheap
to buy them. They like quartered peeler crabs a lot, and for lures either bucktails or parachute
rigs, in tandem.

I wonder if sturgeon go after eel chunks or whole eels.

Dale, if you're watching, could you answer that? I've caught lots of catfish in the Potomac on
salted eel chunks, but I'd think sturgeon would have 'better taste'.

"John H" wrote in message
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On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:33:24 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:47:22 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

On Nov 26, 8:21 pm, Dale Gillespie wrote:
Good yarn Dale. I think those smaller stripers are the best eating.
What did you catch them with,
bait or lures?

I bait fish when sturgeon fishing - and I use only eel. Stripers
aren't too fond of it and don't hit it very often, but sometimes
they'll try to steal it. It's so tough that they never succeed with
their nips and rips.

Odd that they'd try to steal bait they don't really like.

===

Yes, and up in New England they fish for Stripers with eels, both real
and artificial.

Same in the Chesapeake. Foot-long artificial eels are used regularly,
although I never caught a
striper on one. I never tried live eels. Didn't have a place I could leave a
trap, and was too cheap
to buy them. They like quartered peeler crabs a lot, and for lures either
bucktails or parachute
rigs, in tandem.

I wonder if sturgeon go after eel chunks or whole eels.

Dale, if you're watching, could you answer that? I've caught lots of catfish
in the Potomac on
salted eel chunks, but I'd think sturgeon would have 'better taste'.


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Lamprey eels are the eel of sturgeon choice. They eat them when they come
in to the rivers to spawn. As to using Lamprey eel for bait, we have a
major problem with Mitten Crabs. An invasive species. Seems they are not
as bad as a few years ago, so maybe the local fish have decided they are
good to eat. They will clean the hooks of expensive shrimp baits and
threadfin Shad very quickly.

I wonder if sturgeon go after eel chunks or whole eels.

Dale, if you're watching, could you answer that? I've caught lots of catfish in the Potomac on
salted eel chunks, but I'd think sturgeon would have 'better taste'.

CalifBill got it right I think. I've never caught or seen a live
lamprey eel in the delta, but they're likely there. Wish I knew how/
where to catch some it would save a lot of bait money!

Sturgeon do not have good taste when it comes to what they eat. One
was found with a license plate in its belly some years ago. The smell
of an eel is putrid but sturgeon go right after them. Can't say that
I've ever caught a cat fish on eel, and that might say a lot about
eel!

Dale

In article e9c5a185-8e6b-42f3-bd14-c4a25f0fdc73
@p7g2000pre.googlegroups.com, says...

I wonder if sturgeon go after eel chunks or whole eels.

Dale, if you're watching, could you answer that? I've caught lots of catfish in the Potomac on
salted eel chunks, but I'd think sturgeon would have 'better taste'.

CalifBill got it right I think. I've never caught or seen a live
lamprey eel in the delta, but they're likely there. Wish I knew how/
where to catch some it would save a lot of bait money!

Sturgeon do not have good taste when it comes to what they eat. One
was found with a license plate in its belly some years ago. The smell
of an eel is putrid but sturgeon go right after them. Can't say that
I've ever caught a cat fish on eel, and that might say a lot about
eel!

Dale

Dale, I understand that they are trapped

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/48...Eel_trap_.html

"Dale Gillespie" wrote in message
...

I wonder if sturgeon go after eel chunks or whole eels.

Dale, if you're watching, could you answer that? I've caught lots of
catfish in the Potomac on
salted eel chunks, but I'd think sturgeon would have 'better taste'.

CalifBill got it right I think. I've never caught or seen a live
lamprey eel in the delta, but they're likely there. Wish I knew how/
where to catch some it would save a lot of bait money!

Sturgeon do not have good taste when it comes to what they eat. One
was found with a license plate in its belly some years ago. The smell
of an eel is putrid but sturgeon go right after them. Can't say that
I've ever caught a cat fish on eel, and that might say a lot about
eel!

Dale


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I think we get some small runs of eel in a few of the rivers. I have seen
the bodies after spawning (they die) in the Gualala River. Our tagged
sturgeon have been caught in the Columbia, so they do travel.