Now that I've ensured that I have remembered to get my fishing rods, it is time to launch the vessel and start trolling for striped bass.
Selecting a great place to troll for striped bass with the tube and worm is easily the most difficult and critical facet of tube and worm trolling. The top equipment, most productive tubes and juiciest worms will not catch even one striper if there are no striped bass in the spot you are trolling for striped bass. Consequently it is important to construct a strategy for finding fruitful locations, before setting the lines and trolling for striped bass.
Full books are actually authored on how to locate striped bass. There is no doubt that moon phases, tides, weather patterns etc. all possess some kind of impact on where stripers go. Regrettably, where I fish in Cape Cod Bay, despite my most solemn attempts, I've in no way managed to adequately predict the place that the striped bass will be based on any sort of variable.
Take what occurred to me earlier this week for instance. While I write this write-up, it's the middle of the summer and we now have experienced a full 7 days of maintained east winds. This past Weekend the wind diminished right down to the point that it was flat calm. We headed out on the water, discovered stripers in 22 ft of water within Cape Cod Bay, and stayed with the fish when they moved in close to beach front. We were able to have a good evening fishing, while we caught over thirty large stripers close to 42 pounds.
Two days later an identical weather pattern developed again. An East breeze died down as nighttime approached. The weather was literally exactly the same as during the fruitful excursion of two nights ago. Moon phases and tides were just right, I had huge hopes for a repeat of the earlier fishing trip. We discovered bass inside the exact same location in 23 feet of water off a favorite swimming beach. Unfortunately the stripers disappeared, and did not move up shallow. I searched all-around for three hours without marking anything. We all went home having hooked just one striper-completely puzzled regarding the location where the bass had gone.
My point is that inspite of the finest plan, log book, and electronic devices, I am frequently completely "bam-boozled" by stripers. Once I think I have the fish worked out, they throw me on a loop and bring me back down to Earth.
Using a trusted, correctly fitted, colour sonar device is surely an absolute must for the search strategy I usually employ. Typically there won't be any surface signs (breaking stripers, diving birds etc.) leading me towards striped bass, consequently I had to produce a technique using my electronics to help me uncover the stripers which I suspected were out there, somewhere, in Cape Cod Bay.
Furthermore , I needed something that could let me cover great expanses of the Bay rapidly, thus it would be very important that my sonar function effectively at speeds above twenty mph.
Keeping all of this in mind, it is extremely doable to develop a strategy which will continually supply you with a excellent chance at finding stripers. Using a strong game plan, you may not always locate the fish, but you will surely put yourself in a great place for producing an enjoyable trip.
Even if you fish in areas with structure or current, where bass are not spread out across vast distances, using some of the guidelines described at my fishing blog-myfishingcapecod.com-will certainly increase your odds of consistently catching big fish when trolling for stripers.
Selecting a great place to troll for striped bass with the tube and worm is easily the most difficult and critical facet of tube and worm trolling. The top equipment, most productive tubes and juiciest worms will not catch even one striper if there are no striped bass in the spot you are trolling for striped bass. Consequently it is important to construct a strategy for finding fruitful locations, before setting the lines and trolling for striped bass.
Full books are actually authored on how to locate striped bass. There is no doubt that moon phases, tides, weather patterns etc. all possess some kind of impact on where stripers go. Regrettably, where I fish in Cape Cod Bay, despite my most solemn attempts, I've in no way managed to adequately predict the place that the striped bass will be based on any sort of variable.
Take what occurred to me earlier this week for instance. While I write this write-up, it's the middle of the summer and we now have experienced a full 7 days of maintained east winds. This past Weekend the wind diminished right down to the point that it was flat calm. We headed out on the water, discovered stripers in 22 ft of water within Cape Cod Bay, and stayed with the fish when they moved in close to beach front. We were able to have a good evening fishing, while we caught over thirty large stripers close to 42 pounds.
Two days later an identical weather pattern developed again. An East breeze died down as nighttime approached. The weather was literally exactly the same as during the fruitful excursion of two nights ago. Moon phases and tides were just right, I had huge hopes for a repeat of the earlier fishing trip. We discovered bass inside the exact same location in 23 feet of water off a favorite swimming beach. Unfortunately the stripers disappeared, and did not move up shallow. I searched all-around for three hours without marking anything. We all went home having hooked just one striper-completely puzzled regarding the location where the bass had gone.
My point is that inspite of the finest plan, log book, and electronic devices, I am frequently completely "bam-boozled" by stripers. Once I think I have the fish worked out, they throw me on a loop and bring me back down to Earth.
Using a trusted, correctly fitted, colour sonar device is surely an absolute must for the search strategy I usually employ. Typically there won't be any surface signs (breaking stripers, diving birds etc.) leading me towards striped bass, consequently I had to produce a technique using my electronics to help me uncover the stripers which I suspected were out there, somewhere, in Cape Cod Bay.
Furthermore , I needed something that could let me cover great expanses of the Bay rapidly, thus it would be very important that my sonar function effectively at speeds above twenty mph.
Keeping all of this in mind, it is extremely doable to develop a strategy which will continually supply you with a excellent chance at finding stripers. Using a strong game plan, you may not always locate the fish, but you will surely put yourself in a great place for producing an enjoyable trip.
Even if you fish in areas with structure or current, where bass are not spread out across vast distances, using some of the guidelines described at my fishing blog-myfishingcapecod.com-will certainly increase your odds of consistently catching big fish when trolling for stripers.
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 giant tuna and giant tuna.
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