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[Got Stripers]

that that previous thread of mine, quality vs quantity and daytime vs night got me thinking. Fished from 5 pm last night between Scituate and Cohasset harbors, my usual haunts and quit around 11:30. Had a ball right off the bat catching 10 nice 20-25 inch chunks off the first ledge I hit and as usual the hit my 7" split tail hand poured jerkbait. Continued working my way north, hitting all the ledges and humps I like and left the eels in my lifewell until around 8 pm. At that point I started dragging a live eel behind the boat with my 7 foot lami and 6500, while continuing to cast up front while keeping the trolling motor on constant low.

Several bumps on the eel but no pickups. Ran into a big school of nice 25-30 inch fish outside Cohasset and caught about 10 more nice ones on my plastic jerkbait. With all the nice fish around I was surprised to see my eel go unmolested until 9 pm. Then I had a nice battle with a 25 lb fish. No mistaking the big ones taking the eel, the clicker on the reel was screaming. Caught another 10 or so on the jerkbait up until I ran out of gas, but no more hits on the eels. Now this isn't any hard evidence to say that night time brought me bigger fish, because better than half of these fish were caught before sundown. I've also had countless morning bites with similar sized fish. I'm just glad I ran into a couple schools of actively feeding nice sized fish.

Perfect nigth, calm, beautiful sunset, active fish, good numbers and all nice fish, plus the one large to cap off the evening. Had so much fun, I'm planning a repeat tonight. Still, I do like my early morning, but fun getting out at night again.

Tight lines.

[eelman]

Sounds interesting enough,Your 25lb fish came after dark right? There you go.While you had fun with those 25 to 30 inch fish,there still school bass however,those are decent fish for august and you caught them,thats all that counts,I still feel you chances at a cow are 90% better at night.You have to stick with night time to land those biguns.

Boat fishing is totaly different from the surf,You can find big fish in the daytime easy with a boat and can fish deeper water that cant be reached from the shore.

Try dragging some skin plugs real slow behind that boat and hold on!! You will love it.

[Got Stripers]

I'm clueless about what your referring to and I'm not one to pass up something that might work well. I presume you are referring to eel skins and although I've hit on some posts discussing the subject, I really haven't paid that much attention to it. It always sounded like more trouble than it was worth, but maybe I'm wrong.

Be interested in getting some more information on creating them, keeping them, presenting them. I'll let you know how things go tonight, maybe the large will be out there, but I'm still happy with those nice chunks. Thanks and tight lines.

[JohnR]

Basically using an eel skin over a plug like a danny swimmer, darter or plastic. Many plugs work but I am hoping to do some serious experimenting soon <img src="/Images/Happy_Face.gif"><!--e1-->

[Canalratt1]

Any big bulky swimmers are good for skin plugs. You can buy eel skins at bait stores around the Canal. They are kind of a pain to rig but worth it. To rig take off the middle and tail hooks, the skin is rolled up the plug usually leaving some excess off the back of the plug. put hooks back on some guys leave the tail hook off and fasten skin with wire. Leave a hole in the tailso water can flow in. Once rigged and not used store in a zip-lock bag . These should be trolled very slowly just enough to get plug to swim. Bob towing it on your electric would work fine.