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Originally Posted by Fish_Eye
One of the reasons I think the wall gives up a lot of early season stripers is the abundance of sand shrimp in the area…the place is loaded with ‘em. A plain old fashioned bucktail jig, even one that isn’t garnished with pork or plastic will produce fish, especially if you allow it to bounce of the sandy bottom (when shrimp take off out of the sand they produce the same ‘puff’ of smoke like effect that a jig creates when it hits bottom. The addition of a plastic tail only heightens the allure of the offering. Small teasers are also very effective off the wall as they do a good job of replicating these tiny crustaceans.
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I agree Mike. Portions of South Cape beach hold a lot of shrimp too. It will usually produce numbers of smalls in about another 10 days to two weeks.Might even be singles there now. I used to catch a lot of early season fish there with a small popper(hooks removed) and about 30" of 20# mono tied to the rear hook wire. At the end of the mono was a small white 1/4 oz bucktail. Its all I ever needed.
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