Chrisper4694
10-27-2015, 07:30 AM
Between the weather and the subpar trips, we haven't had anything to post about lately, but finally got our first trip out for stripers sunday. started off early trolling and looking for birds to give us a clue. the birds were roaming in the overcast seemingly having trouble finding the bait/fish. we picked up some stripers trolling but they were all little schoolies unfortunately.
Finally, John saw some bird action and we tossed the poppers. first few casts, i hook up with an average fish on light gear and get it in. a minute later john gets clobbered by a very angry 38.5". after a solid battle we get it in...unfortunately the fish was still pretty angry and buried the popper hook right into john's palm! good thing it was brand new shiny hook and not an old rusty one haha.
So there was nothing left to do other than drive the boat with a big popper hanging off his hand while i tried to get another surface blast hahaha. my next cast, my finger hits the bail and snaps the lure off at the knot...great...retrieve the lure. got a few more casts but it was too late it all began to break up. it kind of sucks it was such a short window, maybe 30 minutes. at least we got a little fun out of it and 2 nice fish.
So after john jammed the hook point and barb back out, cut it off, and slid it back out, we went back to trolling. The action was not good though for us as we only picked up a few more small ones and another decent one out a bit further.
First 2015 fall striper trip with some bloopers done, looking forward to next weekend blooper free haha.
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Finally, John saw some bird action and we tossed the poppers. first few casts, i hook up with an average fish on light gear and get it in. a minute later john gets clobbered by a very angry 38.5". after a solid battle we get it in...unfortunately the fish was still pretty angry and buried the popper hook right into john's palm! good thing it was brand new shiny hook and not an old rusty one haha.
So there was nothing left to do other than drive the boat with a big popper hanging off his hand while i tried to get another surface blast hahaha. my next cast, my finger hits the bail and snaps the lure off at the knot...great...retrieve the lure. got a few more casts but it was too late it all began to break up. it kind of sucks it was such a short window, maybe 30 minutes. at least we got a little fun out of it and 2 nice fish.
So after john jammed the hook point and barb back out, cut it off, and slid it back out, we went back to trolling. The action was not good though for us as we only picked up a few more small ones and another decent one out a bit further.
First 2015 fall striper trip with some bloopers done, looking forward to next weekend blooper free haha.
http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z379/chrisper4694/3ae26e28-24c8-4d79-adce-134727490daa.jpg (http://s1186.photobucket.com/user/chrisper4694/media/3ae26e28-24c8-4d79-adce-134727490daa.jpg.html)
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