I apologize if this has been asked before. I am a novice at best, but quite addicted to striper fishing. I primarily fish beaches right before dawn. I like to travel light. If you were limited to carrying only 6 lures with you, what would they be? I'm not much of a bait fisherman...........tried using eels..........I'm from Ohio and that was unnatural and it took all of my nerve to hook them (I was with my son and needed to maintain composure).

Needles, Bombers/mambo's, couple of sizes of buck tails, a 1 & 2 oz. Kastmaster, and a spook or metal lip swimmer

6 plugs only hmm...

Surf howdy in yellow
Rm smith in yellow or black
beachmaster danny in black/gold
habs needle 2oz in eel
bomber in charturse
redfin in chrome/blue

Thats just for plugs, id also have with me some bucktails,kastmasters,strom shads,and sluggos.:nopain:

deadly #^&#^&#^&#^&,hopkins, with a red tube tail:musc:
chrome don't get you home, but it will get you fish:humpty:

Just 6 at pre-dawn...
yellow pencil 3oz
yellow/red head polaris 2-1/4oz
2oz deadly #^&#^&#^&#^& green prism
bomber long A clear black back 1-1/2oz
pt. jude wobble eel the larger one
small surfster or a danny in the 1-1/2 to 2oz size

Well, now I'll show my age. But if they ain't broke, why fix 'em?
In order;
2 oz Cast Master w/ bucktail
3 oz Cast Master w/ bucktail
3 oz Blue/White Atoms surface popper
3 oz Blue White Atoms lipped swimmer (floating diver)
3 oz Orange/ Yellow Atoms lip swimmer (floating diver)
1 1/2 oz bucktailed Upperman (White) with rubber worms
With the above, I feel if there are fish around,, I'll get me some.
By-the-way,,, if you'd let me have 12 lures,,,,, I'd just double up on each one. (S)

2oz habs pencil popper white
1oz r.m.smith peanut bunker
2oz mac yellow pickie
hopkins 1-2oz white bucktail
2oz beachmaster darter yellow
yo-zuri white red-head
& teaser where possible.....:nopain:

ONLY 6 !? :doh: guys think Im 200 lbs [ its the planos in the waders full of plugs!]

If I was limited to six plugs for predawn/dawn fishing:

blurple or yellow (depending on how bright it is) lifishvt needle
yellow/white bomber
blurple bomber
yellow/white surf howdy
bone tattoo sea pup
bunker ryan smith swimmer 2 oz


not a plug but, I'd also have a black sluggo for predawn, white sluggo for dawn

Thanks for the input..................I'll use it.

For the beach, at dawn..right?
2 oz parrot or yellow/white surfster
parrot or yellow/white pencil 2 3/4 oz
2 oz kastmaster
old cream redfin
a needle, type and size depending on beach and conditions
maybe a yozuri darter or these days a yum houdini on a 1 oz jig head depending on the beach

I didn't know Lake Erie had stripers :spin:

6 for dawn...
Superstrike littleneck popper (neon yellow)
yo-zuri surface cruiser (blue mackerel)
yo-zuri mag darter (bunker)
beachmaster atom jr.
bomber (chicken scratch)
5" storm/tsunami rubber shads (bunker)

Zimmy.................not for Lake Erie.........lol...........once a year I visit my wife's family in Maine so then I get to fish for stripers. I don't get much of a chance to fish around Ohio........not that I am missing anything :rude: