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Let me add something to my earlier post.Every fish that I have landed over 40 or 50 lb except a small few was while I was just out fishing and found big fish. The one I landed in Rhody wasn't alone and i lost a couple more of similar size. we were fishing for mostly blues with smaller stripers mixed in. the difference as to why I was hooking up on big bass is that I was using a black/purple pencil popper fished like a neddle in really messy conditiond in some great striper water. Flouro leader,dead slow retreive with a little twitch to the plug from time to time and casting right into the boulders where big fish like to feed. It was also pitch dark and raining before daybreak. People were landing nice blues on both sides of me and weren't hooking up on the bass. There was one other fisherman about fishing similar to me-slow retreive and striper plugs without wire leader who also hooked and landed a couple nice fish in the mid 40 inch range whil others around him were only hooking up with blues.Slow retreive makes huge difference. fat stripers are like fat fisherman. we don't like to run after our meals.I've landed 50's on both eels and plugs. My ist was on a white Atom P-40 fish at 10 am in a rock pile it weighed 53lb 11 oz and it wasn't alone. My buddy landed 3 in the mid 40;s and I landed a 47 lb 9 oz one too . So remeber the fish don't read these posts nor the books we write.Big fish are often where you least expect them but you need the gear to land them. Big fish on light tackle is a loose loose proposition. Ron
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