Anyone here ever try mooching cut plug herring? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Fish_Eye · 03-13-2002, 06:34 PM

I know that the folks on the left coast use a technique called mooching for king and coho salmon. Anyone try it around here?

I would think it would work for stripers and it might be a good way to salvage dead herring -- seeing how the herring "plugs" are often cured in salt.

I know bunker spoons work best when they are rigged to roll in the same sort of manner -- if they work, why not the herring or mooched bunker?

Mike

Jaiem · 03-13-2002, 10:18 PM

Mike,

Not many people try trolling rigged baits for stripers. About the closest they come is to worm trolling. I think it just doesn't "mesh" in the mindset for bass anglers.

OTOH, I've often thought that a mooching flashing rigged with a large fly would be a killer!

GBOUTDOORS · 03-14-2002, 07:23 AM

Mike I don't know about mooching but back in the early 70's we use to net pogies tie a 8/o hook straight to the line add a 1/2 oz rubber core sinker up the line about 3' and troll padanaram harbor all the time. This was with live bait not dead but there were times that we would run out of live bait and use what ever was left and we did catch bass on the dead ones. We did use herring once in a while but the pogies were easyer to get so thats what we used. Now that I'm getting back into this addiction I will be trying it with herring as now they are the easyer to get. I have never tried to freeze herring but I take it that they don't freeze very well? So salting would be the way to go as this would keep them ferm and solid enought to troll with.

bassmaster · 03-14-2002, 10:24 PM

yes I have along the islands with deadly results.
and in woods hole from#8 accross to #4

Fish_Eye · 03-15-2002, 04:54 AM

BM,

I knew you were into plug mooching, but not cut herring plug mooching

. I'm impressed. Were you using a drail and (or) a flasher rig with the herring and was it a whole fish or a headless offering?

Mike

bassmaster · 03-15-2002, 06:09 PM

I have and still have a ton of rubber cores in sizis up to 2 oz and would use I cant remember .aaahhhh ferget it.....
slider sinker up against a barrel in 4 oz.
But ya know that drop where it gets sloppy of Quicks I would dropem down there .
the fishing was always good when it was kinda upchuck sloppy

Used drails to.....
But My main gig was drifting under a controlled troll as to say. It is deadly