"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.

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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.