07-10-2013, 03:08 PM
[#0000FF]Back in your neck of the woods you can use live bait. And you can use live gizzard shad...a striper candy bar. Out here in Utah we would be shot if we used live bait...and burned afterward if we used shad. But stripers will also pick up dead shad or pieces of them being fished for cats.
As you have already been advised, stripers reproduce just fine in fresh water...as long as there is a flowing tributary for them to go up in before they lay their eggs. The eggs have to drift for a couple of days before hatching...or they sink into the bottom mud and suffocate.
Wipers do not reproduce but they develop eggs and milt and go through a "false spawn" in the spring. They have white bass in their genes so they are happy with wind washed rocky shorelines. That is a good place to look for them during that time.
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As you have already been advised, stripers reproduce just fine in fresh water...as long as there is a flowing tributary for them to go up in before they lay their eggs. The eggs have to drift for a couple of days before hatching...or they sink into the bottom mud and suffocate.
Wipers do not reproduce but they develop eggs and milt and go through a "false spawn" in the spring. They have white bass in their genes so they are happy with wind washed rocky shorelines. That is a good place to look for them during that time.
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