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Scup & Stripers
My experience yesterday and today has left me with some questions im hoping you guys / gals can help me understand a few things
Here's what happened.
Fished the past two mornings in a certain spot - by boat. We definitely found the fish. SB were surface feeding both mornings - acres of them - but they were very very finnecky. Yesterday I had one on a soft plastic - Zacs had 2 on a yozuri popper. Today I had some bumps but no real strikes - tried everything in the bag. Remember - I was casting into acres of feeding fish for about 2 hours both mornings.
The only bait i could see in the water were minnows - BUT there are "commercial" scup guys hauling up tons of scup. Yesterday there was one guy near us - today there were 8 boats out there - hand lining for scup.
So - my questions
First of all - what the heck do people do with scup? Is it for lobster traps? Does anyone live line them?
Second - do you think the Stripers feeding on the scup? If so - what artificials do you recommend to mimic a scup?
Any thoughts to help solve this mystery would be appreciated
Thanks
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