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Old 09-06-2017, 09:26 PM   #1
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I think a huge tube 6-8" or so with a 2 oz head would be killer in the surf. They are my favorite LMB lure during the summer and imagine stripers would love em.

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Old 09-07-2017, 07:25 AM   #2
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In the early 80's I was a club and mass federation bass tournament fisherman and wasn't fishing the salt at all. In the mid to late 80's it became too crowded and too much of a job and I started to transition to striper fishing. I was in love with sluggos and jig fishing and back then I used a larger plastic jerk made in Abington called a wide body and marketed under the name Carty's Critters. The logical next step for me was to design my own baits to add some things I saw missing from the typical sluggo, which was primarily more meat at the head so they fished better behind a jig and harder plastic to last.

Finesse fishing a jig in fresh water has served me well when it comes to putting anything in the boat, but I love targeting tog on light jigs.
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Old 09-07-2017, 07:46 AM   #3
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I feel trout are more similar in behavior than largemouth.

Largemouth seem be more loners and territorial, where trout
will group and pack up on structure. In still water trout will
hunt in a pack....like a school of striped bass.

I feel that trout have similar picky characteristics as striped bass, where
largemouth are rarely as picky. You can drop the same senko in its territory
every day and lift that fish out.

I am not saying that largemouth bass fishing is easy,
I just feel its easier than striped bass fishing.
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Old 09-07-2017, 03:36 PM   #4
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I think a huge tube 6-8" or so with a 2 oz head would be killer in the surf. They are my favorite LMB lure during the summer and imagine stripers would love em.
Rob, Tim Coleman wrote several articles back in the late 80s and early 90s about using freshwater rubber worms for Stripers. I tried it with big black worms back in the early 90s just as we came out of the moratorium.

One night my then partner and I absolutely crushed fish at Watch Hill Light. Nothing huge because there just weren't any huge fish then. Minimum size was 36", then 34" but we each had 30 or 40 fish in the 20 to 30" range on very light tackle. We rigged then "Texas style with the hook buried in the body of the worm to make them weedless.I am sure it would still work.

No boat, back in the suds.
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Old 09-07-2017, 03:53 PM   #5
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Both species act / react to bright light and sunlight in similar manner....they avoid it when possible.
They both LOVE to hunt at night.

As for cross-species tackle and tactics, my personal favorite is using small freshwater lures for stripers, specifically when the bait is small. That means having a selection of 3" storm shads, 4" slug-gos and 3 & 4" Mr. Twister grubs. The Slug-gos and grubs are rigged on 1/4 oz jigs.

Sure, it looks like I don't know what I'm doing, but after extensive research (many, MANY outings) I found that "matching the hatch" with stripers can sometimes mean drastic methods that you might not think would work.

I can recall some years back catching a 37" bass on a 6" slug-go on a 1/2 oz. jig, and at the time I thought that was radical....but I found I was really just starting to learn that you never stop learning, and just keep on catching fish!

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