Trolling for Striped Bass and Locating Striper Hot Spots

By Captain Ryan John Collins


As soon as I've ensured we have remembered to bring my fishing rods, it is time to splash the Miss Loretta and start trolling for striped bass. Many folks think that enticing a big striper to bite is the most challenging part of a fishing trip. Yet often times finding the fish in the first place is the most difficult aspect of the entire trip.

Finding a productive spot to troll for striped bass with the tube and worm is regarded as a difficult and vital aspect of tube and worm trolling. The most effective equipment, most effective tubes and juiciest sandworms won't catch anything if there aren't any striped bass in the area you're trolling. Therefore it is critical to develop a strategy for finding fish-filled waters, ahead of setting the lines and trolling for striped bass.

Full publications have been written regarding how to locate striped bass. There is not any uncertainty that moon phases, tides, weather patterns etc. all possess some sort of effect on exactly where stripers decide to go. Unfortunately, where I fish in Cape Cod Bay, and in-spite of my earnest attempts, I have by no means managed to adequately calculate the spot that the bass will be, based on any type of variable.

While I publish this write-up, it's the middle of September and we've experienced a week of maintained easterly winds. This past Saturday the breeze diminished right down to the point that that it was dead calm. We advanced out on the water, located fish in 19 ft of water inside of Cape Cod Bay, and stuck with the bass when they swam in close to the beach. It was a fantastic day on the water, as we caught over 30 big striped bass up to 42 pounds. Fortunately for myself and the crew, we were able to use sonar to stick with the biomass as they moved around. Often times things don't go quite as smoothly.

Two days afterwards an identical weather pattern developed. An onshore breeze died down as night approached. The weather was literally identical to the terrific excursion we had earlier in the week. Moon phases and tides were spot on, and I had high desires for a repeat of the earlier fishing excursion. We found bass inside the very same spot in 19 ft of water right off a well-liked swimming beach. However the fish disappeared, and didn't venture in shallow. I searched all over for three hours-all the while not marking a thing.

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.

Fortunately we can improve our odds of finding bass by using a reliable search strategy. Using a dependable, correctly mounted, colour sonar device is undoubtedly an absolute must for the search strategy that I typically utilize. Typically there won't be any surface signs (breaking stripers, diving birds etc.) leading me towards bass, therefore I was required to develop a technique making use of my electronics that helped me to find the stripers that I knew were out there, someplace, in Cape Cod Bay.

I also needed a plan that could let me cover vast expanses of the Bay rapidly, thus it is crucial that my fish-finder read well at speeds of more than twenty 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.

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