07-11-2013, 12:05 PM
That's some good input. So, it sounds like i'm not going to have a great deal of luck on the stripers unless it's early morning or late evening. I might try dropping on them vertically with a jig or bucktail.
I actually did this one time with some spro jigs. I putted around until I marked something, and had the crew drop spros down. Not a nibble. Could be I wasn't holding my mouth right. I didn't give it much time though. Bass Assassins and Saltwater assassins are a very popular lure here in the salty pond for speckled trout, redfish, and weakfish. I might switch up from the bucktail and try that.
I'm definitely going to drag live shad. I've already been wrapping my brain around a modified king mackerel rig for just that purpose. Typically, a king rig is made of single strand steel with a large single hook and a trebble slap hook behind it. I know i'm going to swap the steel for fluorocarbon, and based on the size of a striper mouth and how they feed, I don't think I need a second hook. In theory, I could albright on a strip of 20 lb fluorocarbon to my mainline, tie a live bait hook on the other end, and i've got a nice, clean trolling rig. Only issue would be line twist, which I could just add a swivel. But, with live bait, that should be minimal.
For the planer rig, just add the planer up ahead of the leader, and i'm good. A #1 should get me down to about 15 to 20'. I saw these things at bass pro that looked pretty neat. It was a plastic planer looking device with various different holes. According to the package, it says you can accurately adjust your baits depth by moving the hole your lines are hooked to. I didn't buy it, because i'm skeptical, but have any of you tried it?
So, sound like i'm on track?
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I actually did this one time with some spro jigs. I putted around until I marked something, and had the crew drop spros down. Not a nibble. Could be I wasn't holding my mouth right. I didn't give it much time though. Bass Assassins and Saltwater assassins are a very popular lure here in the salty pond for speckled trout, redfish, and weakfish. I might switch up from the bucktail and try that.
I'm definitely going to drag live shad. I've already been wrapping my brain around a modified king mackerel rig for just that purpose. Typically, a king rig is made of single strand steel with a large single hook and a trebble slap hook behind it. I know i'm going to swap the steel for fluorocarbon, and based on the size of a striper mouth and how they feed, I don't think I need a second hook. In theory, I could albright on a strip of 20 lb fluorocarbon to my mainline, tie a live bait hook on the other end, and i've got a nice, clean trolling rig. Only issue would be line twist, which I could just add a swivel. But, with live bait, that should be minimal.
For the planer rig, just add the planer up ahead of the leader, and i'm good. A #1 should get me down to about 15 to 20'. I saw these things at bass pro that looked pretty neat. It was a plastic planer looking device with various different holes. According to the package, it says you can accurately adjust your baits depth by moving the hole your lines are hooked to. I didn't buy it, because i'm skeptical, but have any of you tried it?
So, sound like i'm on track?
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