Stripers are still hanging around extreme Southere Maine. But one has to do some serious hunting for them. Portland area (my home turf) is pretty much closed down. Haven't seen LARGE since a very cold Sunday night. Plenty of macks still around. Their pounding the peanuts to pieces. Interesting observations concerning bait of choice for chunking. Reminds me of a Saco River trip a few years back. Started the day by fishing mack chunks Then had to switch over to live tinkers. Then the fish went up into the river and had to switch back over to mack chunks. Decided to stop at a dock where some tuna/sharking guys were cleaning up their gear. They were tossing herring in the water. Stripers were all over the place like rats in a dump. But they woudn't touch a piece of mack even though the dock is 200 feet from a spot that was producing on macks. We popped up to the Camp Ellis pier and bummed some herring off of a lobstah fisherman. Headed back to the dock and chunked, chunked, chunked till our arms hurt.
