beer? at 8am? lucky
Proline 201WA
Aloha 24ft pontoon (LooneyToon)
Old Town stern with 7.5 johnson
That’s Happy Hour when you work Bob’s shift.
'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
DF90 Suzuki
That was last night when I got home, I didn’t post till this morning. Not to say I’ve never had a cold one in the early AM hours on occasion. 
Bob Van Gundy
803-727-4069
Custom Aluminum Fabrication
Breakfast beer is sound and essential nutritional intake to get your motor running in the morning. Grains, carbs and hydration…come on! Throw in a couple of brats from the night before, with a little spicy mustard and you have a true breakfast of champions. If you want to add the “fruit group” to this amazing menu, try a good cider like Woodchuck. Great! Now I’m hungry AND thirsty!
God bless the “ignore” function.
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Originally posted by pqstonecityFound them but can’t get them to bite. Anchor around 9PM and turn on the light. After about 30 minutes, baits showed up thick then follow the stripers. I was using live herring but the bite was really slow. Any suggestion?
Assuming you had good lively bait, the only thing I might would try is slowly keep the baits moving with the TM or drift if not too windy.
It’s not unusual to find fish suspended in deep water at night and they are not biting. Night fishing during the summer, finding fish suspended in deep water is normally no problem at all, but like any other time you mark fish, they are not necessarily always going to eat.
I started trolling last night right at dark and picked up one, missed a couple and then nothing for over an hour, even though the screen looked like this for a good part of the time:
Not another hit till about 10:15 and then they turned on and got 4 more in no time fishing in the same exact area.
'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
DF90 Suzuki
We trolled the big 17, 18 or 21 size Tony spoons a lot in the Chesapeake Bay, and cast or jigged the flutter spoons.
How do you guys feel about the trebles on those Nichols spoons for Stripers? Most of the MD guys changed out the trebles to single dressed hooks. Made releasing under size fish easier with less damage, plus seems to get more solid hook ups.
They use trebles on the bottom and two separate “stinger hooks” on the top, like a saltwater flutter jig. I’m not sure what issues you’re asking about with the trebles but I’ve never had any. They’re plenty strong enough and sticky sharp.
God bless the “ignore” function.
Got a picture of that setup?
Bob Van Gundy
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Custom Aluminum Fabrication
http://cdn3.volusion.com/9j7vu.jw4f2/v/vspfiles/photos/Nichols-BPMS-STNGR-2T.jpg?1462979928
Ben Parker has posted countless pictures of him landing doubles (primarily largemouth bass) on Kentucky Lake with this setup. I believe that one is the Magnum (8") spoon. They make a “super magnum” too. I use the 8" and 9" spoons. You’d be surprised just how “small” of a fish will eat a spoon of that size.
God bless the “ignore” function.
I used to run the 2 stingers up top… Bowhunter actually made me some instead of paying that crazy store price… Using them over 2 years I hooked 1 fish on the top hooks. As far as hook ups go (in my experience) I haven’t seen a need for the stinger hooks…
It also helps when boating the fish not to have those top hooks. When the bite is red hot on the spoon, you don’t want to have to dig that treble (the one if you look at it wrong will stick you) out of a bet…lol…unless the fish is barely hooked I reach down and grab the spoon to throw the fish in the boat. I have done this with fish up to 9-10#…anything over that is getting netted anyway.
As far as doing damage to the smaller fish, I only use the big spoons in the summer when it doesn’t matter anyway.
“All fisherman lie. And if they say otherwise, then they’re lying”
“Sea~N~Stripes”
21’ Hewes Craft Custom
140 Suzuki
No issues, just saying that many of the Chesapeake guys switch out trebles in favor of single hooks. I use trebles on some lures, mostly casting lures but change them if I don’t feel they’re strong enough or sharp enough. On the big spoons I prefer the single hooks. I was simply wondering if any of you were switching to singles for Striper fishing.
Some of the guys in MD use those stinger hooks added to the top end of a spoon too, and many switch the trebles to singles on the other end.
Something like these. Top is 7/0, bottom is 6/0:
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Originally posted by bigjim5589We trolled the big 17, 18 or 21 size Tony spoons a lot in the Chesapeake Bay, and cast or jigged the flutter spoons.
How do you guys feel about the trebles on those Nichols spoons for Stripers? Most of the MD guys changed out the trebles to single dressed hooks. Made releasing under size fish easier with less damage, plus seems to get more solid hook ups.
Hey bigjim, NO ONE cares how you did it back home. If you don’t like using treble hooks on your spoons, move the hell back! 
I didn’t striper fish near as much growing up (NYC/LI area) as I do now, but I remember the bunker spoons being pretty popular. I see now, they all seem to have the hook attached with a split ring with either a single or treble hook. The ones I remember had a single hook screwed into the spoon itself similar to how they do on a drone spoon. I’ve considered going to a single hook on the BP’s just for ease of unhooking fish, but they work so well as is I hate to mess with it.
Do they troll them on steel line in MD?
'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
DF90 Suzuki
I’m not moving back! I like it here!
I’m just trying to learn & can only ask & compare to what I did in MD!
Striperskiff, my mom used to tell me if I couldn’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all! So, if you don’t like what I post, don’t read it! 
Used to be some used wire line, particularly in the lower bay but not so much now with braids I don’t think. Never used wire myself, only some leadcore line occasionally.
Heck, I still have dacron on a few reels. [:I]