I towed a boat in after the big storm. The guy I towed, told me that he would show me how, and where to catch bigger stripers. He has lots of pics of him with 10-20lb stripers from Pleasant, said he has been fishing it for 30 years.
I went to meet him, and he was catching blue gill for the trip at a ramp. Well as we got under way, his engine quit. He has two engines and neither one would start. We were blown into a walk way in the marina. A woman came out right away, and said we can't tie up there. We pushed the boat to the end of the ramp and got it off of the dock.
He worked on the boat all night, lots of mumbling to himself, and cursing. He had a couple of problems, A rigged throttle control, twisted wire, that had broken, and he thought that some electrical wires had gotten shorted. By morning he had gotten the batteries charged, started it up, and returned smoothly to his slip.
He said he doesn't fool with chovies because they only catch small fish. So as we were stranded on the outside of a slip, we put out the green light. We had no shad around the boat, but what was increasing, through out the night, was the number, and size of the stripers around the boat. Also we got a couple of small crappy but no stripers.
I have in the past seen small stripers under the boat hitting shad. But the stripers that were around the boat were good size, and I saw nothing that they were eating. No shad and very few fry. See Pic, a 3 inch blue gill for comparison. The numbers and size of them was amazing. We were in about 90 ft of water. He also doesn't have a fish finder on the boat.
The frustrating thing is as he was working on the boat I fished almost every lure in my tackle box in every way that I know how. I could not get a striper look at them. On jigging a small spoon, I got a crappy. I tried for another, but came up with just one other bite for the night. The stripers totally ignored the blue gill, which swam all night from 6 inches, as shown, down to about 20 feet.
I would have loved to have had a chovie just to see it they would hit it.
He said we will do it again and he will put me on fish.
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Originally Posted by Basstomouth
