View Full Version : strange striper behavior


Duke41
08-12-2007, 06:02 PM
About two weeks ago while entering the West Wall at Pt. Judith I saw the strangest site. 4 or so different pods of schoolie stripers in the surface swimming with their mouth wide open. It was pretty cool. They would sound and then surface again swimming pretty much in the same direction mouths open. This went on for a long time they where doing it before I got their and after I left. They would not hit anything. poppers, spoons, plastics. Although a couple of guys were getting fish by trolling trebles hooks with weights in them. Anyone seen this before, any ideas what they were feeding in that day. And oh yeah I caught a 34.5 pounder eeling Southwest ledge that day. Which I entered as a member of team S-B at snugg harbor. It was an excellent day!!

Squid kids Dad
08-12-2007, 06:17 PM
Good job Duke41

UserRemoved1
08-12-2007, 06:19 PM
yep I see this almost every year. Think they're eating krill. Pretty neat to watch.

Backbeach Jake
08-12-2007, 08:25 PM
yep I see this almost every year. Think they're eating krill. Pretty neat to watch.

Exactly! I'm working on a krill teaser, amythest with an orange gut dot. Frustrating, alll those fish and nothing to tempt them.

PS the guys trolling snag hooks for stripers were breaking the law. Not to mention needlessly wounding schoolies.

justplugit
08-12-2007, 08:47 PM
Hard to get a strike when they're keyed in on funnel feeding.

Clammer
08-12-2007, 10:33 PM
Tons of Krill today ><><><

Skitterpop
08-12-2007, 11:23 PM
What BBJ said...... treble snagging baby Stripes :af: :af: :af:

hyefisherman2
08-13-2007, 06:51 AM
yep I see this almost every year. Think they're eating krill. Pretty neat to watch.

bingo, you can also see it sometimes in the merricmack river on some ocasions

bloocrab
08-13-2007, 12:51 PM
Used to see Tinker Macs doing that alot.....took me awhile to figure it out......I thought maybe they were hybrid mammal/fish coming up for a breath of air . :think: , .

EarnedStripes44
08-13-2007, 02:25 PM
try grass shrimp

DZ
08-13-2007, 02:38 PM
There are now so many big menhaden around the bass are starting to mimic them.