11-16-2007, 09:35 AM
stripercraze has it down. This time of year, you can find stripers anywhere from a few feet deep, all the way down to 80 or 100 feet. Vary your presentation. Try drifting in 50 feet of water, and if you don't get hit, move to 70 or 80 feet. Don't settle down in one spot too long if you aren't catching fish. If you have a fish-finder, you can motor around until you find a school of shad balled up, or a few fish registering on your FF that are close together. Drop the anchovy down and wait. you can also take advantage of the jig bite in these situations. Spinnows do the job. Its like a jigging spoon, but the body is a fish-shaped hunk of metal that spins on the wire 'frame'. You can find those at local bait shops sometimes. Just don't give up. The fish are out there, you just need to find them. Stay on the move until you locate a school, and only fish there as long as you are catching fish. These schools of stripers will cruise along, so you need to keep up with them, or keep them in your range with chum. If you catch a fish, stop and throw out some chopped up 'chovies. That should keep them around for a few minutes. Keep throwing out some chum every 15 or 20 minutes, and you may keep them around for a while. Just remember, your biggest fish will most likely not come from soaking an anchovy. Get out the hardware and try to catch a biggun.
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