strange striper behavior
 

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!!

Good job Duke41

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.

Hard to get a strike when they're keyed in on funnel feeding.

Tons of Krill today ><><><

What BBJ said...... treble snagging baby Stripes :af: :af: :af:

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

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: , .

try grass shrimp

There are now so many big menhaden around the bass are starting to mimic them.