Hi Friends:
Recently my day time fishing experienced a mix between blue and striper, which is rather difficult for me. Since small blue hit and tear off my bait but bass swallow it. But for setting the hook my reflex couldn't repond in time to distinguish this two.
For bass, I always use drop back tatic but facing small blues it won't work. Any idea how to catch bass while avoid small blue stealing my bait--or catch them as well.
By the way, when I sense blue is around I use stingsilver (metal lure) or swimmer plug and present them with little twich while reeling but blue did not take it. When I present my lures, there are 25 inch of blues taken around me through chunked herring. Why is that, I thought blue like moving shining and live fish better than dead drifted chunk. Any thought about this.
