Fall Striper Fishing

[reelfishin]

Anyone started fishing for Striper in the Chesapeake Bay. We went out a week ago and caught a 35 incher at the CBBT. I know the schoolies are around. We really are waiting on the big boys to get here. I believe they should be here sooner than last year. We should be fishing this saturday and the next saturday if the weather permits. Last time we went out it was rough and nasty out. Hopefully this time will be better.

[Amy]

Reel, we went up there this past weekend, only got to fish on Friday. Saturday and Sunday was a wash with wind and rain. We caught 6 on Friday, 2 about 5 lbs Friday morning and Friday evening with eels, we got 2 about 15 lbs and 2 that were 34-35 inches. Heard some reports of a few 40" + fish being caught, but I don't think the big ones have really gotten there yet.

[reelfishin]

We had gone out to test all our fishing equipment. We wanted to catch fish but the checkout of the boat, fishing gear etc was the first and formost on our minds. We wanted to test different ways of fishing. We normally troll for striper but we at times we use other methods.

We had a good day considering the bad weather and high waves. I think we were not really expecting to catch anything and when it did happen it took us by surprise. My son was just setting up for more rigs to go out when the fish hit. Nice thing is we might have picked up another fishing area to add to our fishing places. We will go there again and check out the area and see if it is productive.

Anyway thanks for the report and I surely will let you know how we do when we go out again. Anyway we still have different rigs to test and see what they do. We probably will put out a whole spread this coming weekend and go for the fish and see what is out there.

[reelfishin]

If the weather is good enough the week after christmas we should be fishing for Striper. Let's hope the big stripers are here.

[Amy]

We'll be headed back up there on Thursday afternoon. Going to fish out of Rudee Inlet on Friday. Hope to catch 'em up!

[reelfishin]

We were going to fish today but the weather was not very good. Very strong wind. We should fish wednesday. I am not sure about the weather on thursday but I hear it is going to be bad.

I am not sure where we will be fishing. My son takes care of that. But we do fish all over and have certain area's we like to fish and some we like to test for fish. Just like anyone else fishing. We fish out of Salt Ponds Marina in Hampton.

Hopefully we will be doing this just long enough to get to where we are going to fish.

Edited December 29, 2009 by reel

[Amy]

Got several friends out there today...they've both limited out. Catching fish from 20-35 lbs

[reelfishin]

We did fish the other day. We had one striper hookup that came in sideways. It got close to the boat and the line broke. We turned around and proceed to go over the same area. We had alreadhy caught 1 other fish in that area and thought we could maybe catch some more. We trolled for about a hour and then turned back over the same area again. When we got close to the are we hooked up the last fish we had a fish on. It turned out to be the same fish. It still had our artificial bait hooked to it"s mouth. He was a 37 incher. Not bad. We ended the day with 3 fish and could have stayed and probably limited out but we decided to head on home. We got in it was just before dark. We pulled up to the fuel dock to was the boat down. As soon as we washed the boat down the water on the dock froze to ice. That made it fun on the dock. Life is always exciting.

[Amy]

We managed to catch 11 on Friday, they were from 12-18 lbs. It was beyond cold out there. We had the same issue when washing the boat on Saturday morning!