As soon as I've made certain I have remembered to bring my fishing equipment and bait, it's time to splash the Miss Loretta (my boat) and begin trolling for striped bass.
Locating a productive spot to troll for striped bass with the tube and worm is among the most difficult and vitally important aspects of tube and worm trolling. The top gear, most effective tubes and juiciest sandworms won't catch even one striper if there are no striped bass in the region you are fishing. For that reason it is important to build a strategy for finding prosperous areas, before setting the lines and trolling for striped bass.
There's no question that moon phases, tides, weather patterns etc. all incorporate some kind of affect on exactly where stripers go. Regrettably, where I spend the majority of my time fishing, in spite of my earnest efforts, I've in no way been able to precisely foresee the location where the striped bass will be based on any kind of variable.
Take what occurred to me this past week for instance. While I publish this write-up, it is the middle of September and we've had a week of continual easterly breezes. This past Sunday the wind diminished to the point that that it was dead calm. We advanced out onto the water, found striped bass in twenty feet of water inside of Cape Cod Bay, and remained with the fish while they swam right up to the beach. We were able to have a excellent evening on the water. We caught more than 25 big striped bass up to forty two lbs trolling the tube and worm.
A couple of days afterwards the same exact weather pattern occurred once again. An easterly wind died down as evening approached. The weather was literally identical to the productive fishing trip of two nights prior. Moon phases and tides were spot on, so I had significant hopes for a repeat of the earlier fishing excursion. We found striped bass in the very same place in twenty ft of water off a popular swimming beach. Regrettably the fish vanished, and didn't swim up to shallower water. I explored all-around for three hours with out marking anything. We departed for the marina having hooked-up with one striped bass-completely perplexed as to the location where the bass went.
The point I am trying to make is that in spite of the very best approach, log book, and technology, I'm often absolutely "bam-boozled" by striped bass. The moment I think I've the bass understood, they pitch me on a loop and bring me back down to Earth.
Using a reliable, properly mounted, colour sonar unit is undoubtedly an absolute must for the search strategy I typically employ. Usually there aren't any surface indications (breaking stripers, diving birds etc.) bringing me to the stripers. Consequently I had to produce a method making use of my electronics that helped me to find the bass that I knew were out there, somewhere.
I additionally required a strategy that could allow me to cover vast expanses of the Bay rapidly, so it would be extremely important that my fish-finder function well at speeds of more than twenty knots. Fortunately most color sonar units these days have no problem registering fish at high speeds. Some practice and time spent on the water is all that is needed to distinguish striped bass marks from dogfish or bluefish when traveling at more than 20 knots.
Keeping all of this in mind, it is very doable to formulate a technique that should regularly give you a fantastic likelihood at finding stripers. With a stable game plan, you might not always find the fish, but you will certainly place yourself in an excellent position for creating an enjoyable fishing trip.
Be sure to check out more in-depth how to troll for striped bass techniques at the striped bass fishing blog-myfishingcapecod.com.
Locating a productive spot to troll for striped bass with the tube and worm is among the most difficult and vitally important aspects of tube and worm trolling. The top gear, most effective tubes and juiciest sandworms won't catch even one striper if there are no striped bass in the region you are fishing. For that reason it is important to build a strategy for finding prosperous areas, before setting the lines and trolling for striped bass.
There's no question that moon phases, tides, weather patterns etc. all incorporate some kind of affect on exactly where stripers go. Regrettably, where I spend the majority of my time fishing, in spite of my earnest efforts, I've in no way been able to precisely foresee the location where the striped bass will be based on any kind of variable.
Take what occurred to me this past week for instance. While I publish this write-up, it is the middle of September and we've had a week of continual easterly breezes. This past Sunday the wind diminished to the point that that it was dead calm. We advanced out onto the water, found striped bass in twenty feet of water inside of Cape Cod Bay, and remained with the fish while they swam right up to the beach. We were able to have a excellent evening on the water. We caught more than 25 big striped bass up to forty two lbs trolling the tube and worm.
A couple of days afterwards the same exact weather pattern occurred once again. An easterly wind died down as evening approached. The weather was literally identical to the productive fishing trip of two nights prior. Moon phases and tides were spot on, so I had significant hopes for a repeat of the earlier fishing excursion. We found striped bass in the very same place in twenty ft of water off a popular swimming beach. Regrettably the fish vanished, and didn't swim up to shallower water. I explored all-around for three hours with out marking anything. We departed for the marina having hooked-up with one striped bass-completely perplexed as to the location where the bass went.
The point I am trying to make is that in spite of the very best approach, log book, and technology, I'm often absolutely "bam-boozled" by striped bass. The moment I think I've the bass understood, they pitch me on a loop and bring me back down to Earth.
Using a reliable, properly mounted, colour sonar unit is undoubtedly an absolute must for the search strategy I typically employ. Usually there aren't any surface indications (breaking stripers, diving birds etc.) bringing me to the stripers. Consequently I had to produce a method making use of my electronics that helped me to find the bass that I knew were out there, somewhere.
I additionally required a strategy that could allow me to cover vast expanses of the Bay rapidly, so it would be extremely important that my fish-finder function well at speeds of more than twenty knots. Fortunately most color sonar units these days have no problem registering fish at high speeds. Some practice and time spent on the water is all that is needed to distinguish striped bass marks from dogfish or bluefish when traveling at more than 20 knots.
Keeping all of this in mind, it is very doable to formulate a technique that should regularly give you a fantastic likelihood at finding stripers. With a stable game plan, you might not always find the fish, but you will certainly place yourself in an excellent position for creating an enjoyable fishing trip.
Be sure to check out more in-depth how to troll for striped bass techniques at the striped bass fishing blog-myfishingcapecod.com.
About the Author:
Captain Ryan Collins fishes for striped bass and Bluefin tuna off Cape Cod, MA. Visit his blog, myfishingcapecod.com for insider tips about striped bass fishing and giant bluefin tuna.
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