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Permalink Reply by Engineco913 on August 6, 2008 at 9:32pm

I haven't been up to Maine fishing. I live in Rhode Island and fish pretty faithfully throughout the season. I have had descent luck of late drifting eels. (old faithful) We had a nice school of bunker move close enough to shore last weekend where we were able to use snag rigs and when we hook onto a nice one let it sink with the weight on your line. We hooked into a few nice fish.

Permalink Reply by Jeremiah Burch on August 10, 2008 at 10:53pm

Yeah i've tried drifting eels up here and nothin. My neighbor/fishing buddy says that we're probably goin through a cycle where the fishin will be bad for the next couple of years. I've seen it do this before but it wasn't this bad. Thanks for the info though.

Permalink Reply by Greg Gutierrez on October 4, 2008 at 2:03pm

I'm not a striper expert but have caught a buch of them over the years, here are a couple of tricks I have used to catch them when I am targeting stripers and not bass.
1. a large jerk bait like a Lucky Craft Pointer 128 or 110 (some thing you chunk a long way) give the bait a couple of foot sharp pulls, about 1 or 2 foot of the line and let it sit for 2-4 seconds and then repeat should be like a jerk-jerk----Pause tempo. This works great on the flat waters.
2. On the rivers in the west we use a 8 inch platic worm, color is black body with a white curly tail, thread the worm on a large jig head so the body is strait. Then you can sink it down to what ever depth you want the worm mimics an eel with the swimming tail.

Permalink Reply by Jeremiah Burch on October 4, 2008 at 11:42pm

Its alittle late in the season now, but i'll have to give it a try for the little ones that are still hangin about. Thanks.