probably been posted before

[stuck in ohio]

I apologize if this has been asked before. I am a novice at best, but quite addicted to striper fishing. I primarily fish beaches right before dawn. I like to travel light. If you were limited to carrying only 6 lures with you, what would they be? I'm not much of a bait fisherman...........tried using eels..........I'm from Ohio and that was unnatural and it took all of my nerve to hook them (I was with my son and needed to maintain composure).

[tattoobob]

Needles, Bombers/mambo's, couple of sizes of buck tails, a 1 & 2 oz. Kastmaster, and a spook or metal lip swimmer

[libassboy]

6 plugs only hmm...

Surf howdy in yellow
Rm smith in yellow or black
beachmaster danny in black/gold
habs needle 2oz in eel
bomber in charturse
redfin in chrome/blue

Thats just for plugs, id also have with me some bucktails,kastmasters,strom shads,and sluggos.

[thefishingfreak]

deadly #^&#^&#^&#^&,hopkins, with a red tube tail
chrome don't get you home, but it will get you fish

[leptar]

Just 6 at pre-dawn...
yellow pencil 3oz
yellow/red head polaris 2-1/4oz
2oz deadly #^&#^&#^&#^& green prism
bomber long A clear black back 1-1/2oz
pt. jude wobble eel the larger one
small surfster or a danny in the 1-1/2 to 2oz size

[riarcher]

Well, now I'll show my age. But if they ain't broke, why fix 'em?
In order;
2 oz Cast Master w/ bucktail
3 oz Cast Master w/ bucktail
3 oz Blue/White Atoms surface popper
3 oz Blue White Atoms lipped swimmer (floating diver)
3 oz Orange/ Yellow Atoms lip swimmer (floating diver)
1 1/2 oz bucktailed Upperman (White) with rubber worms
With the above, I feel if there are fish around,, I'll get me some.
By-the-way,,, if you'd let me have 12 lures,,,,, I'd just double up on each one. (S)

[pops]

2oz habs pencil popper white
1oz r.m.smith peanut bunker
2oz mac yellow pickie
hopkins 1-2oz white bucktail
2oz beachmaster darter yellow
yo-zuri white red-head
& teaser where possible.....

ONLY 6 !? guys think Im 200 lbs [ its the planos in the waders full of plugs!]

[Clogston29]

If I was limited to six plugs for predawn/dawn fishing:

blurple or yellow (depending on how bright it is) lifishvt needle
yellow/white bomber
blurple bomber
yellow/white surf howdy
bone tattoo sea pup
bunker ryan smith swimmer 2 oz


not a plug but, I'd also have a black sluggo for predawn, white sluggo for dawn

[stuck in ohio]

Thanks for the input..................I'll use it.

[zimmy]

For the beach, at dawn..right?
2 oz parrot or yellow/white surfster
parrot or yellow/white pencil 2 3/4 oz
2 oz kastmaster
old cream redfin
a needle, type and size depending on beach and conditions
maybe a yozuri darter or these days a yum houdini on a 1 oz jig head depending on the beach

I didn't know Lake Erie had stripers

[BernOC]

6 for dawn...
Superstrike littleneck popper (neon yellow)
yo-zuri surface cruiser (blue mackerel)
yo-zuri mag darter (bunker)
beachmaster atom jr.
bomber (chicken scratch)
5" storm/tsunami rubber shads (bunker)

[stuck in ohio]

Zimmy.................not for Lake Erie.........lol...........once a year I visit my wife's family in Maine so then I get to fish for stripers. I don't get much of a chance to fish around Ohio........not that I am missing anything