Chumming and Chunking Wipers?
 

Last week I was out saltwater fishing, and I came back home with some extra frozen bunker and squid, and I began to wonder: does anyone chum / chunk wipers on the lakes? It would seem to be something to try, since they are an open water schooling fish and chase schooling baitfish.

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doesnt rly work too well, they are honed in on herring in most places, they actually wanna chase it and swallow it. In the fall when they get on a bottom bite w chicken livers and such the dead herring whole work good. Ive saved lots of herring that die and clip them w scissors if Im anchored up on them and marking them to try and keep them close by, but never had success calling them in. They are easy enough to find tho just gotta look in the right areas

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I have chummed cut up herring many many times and can only really credit one small wiper to the chum. They like to slash and bang, eat and run, I don't think the chum really does much. I don't even save my left over bait anymore and the ones that die I just throw in.

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I agree with everyone in this thread. The baby hybrid stripers seem to have a predilection for picking up dead bait and other objects off the bottom, but not the adults.

In fact, the baby stripers were a real pain-in-my-ass this weekend when I was trying to catch a catfish for dinner.

On a side note, I was reading about how some Southern reservoirs are stocking pure Striped Bass. I wonder why New Jersey only stocks hybrids. Maybe they get too big and would eat native gamefish. :confused:


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Re: Chumming and Chunking Wipers?
 

Hybrids were produced as panfish eaters, they help make trophy lakes by eating the small sunnies and crappie/perch. The real key is they are STERILE, you stock them and they die, they dont reproduce. Almost every private lake and many trophy lakes have this in common, there are hybrids stocked into them. Other states (PA included) do very well with true strain stripers and they have limited reproduction, they need a river/creek to really do their thing. The problem is the true strains are huge eaters, and if lets say LH was stocked with them, there would no longer be trout stocked in those waters, the stripers would give the finger to the muskies as they ate their trout!!