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What size hooks for striper fishing. If you see a big hit and they are not hooked you usually reel up nothing but a shad head due to a short strike.
I think we have touched on most of the ways how to rig for striper fishing.
How to hook shad for striper fishing. How we rig live Gizzard Shad to catch Striped Bass in lakes rivers and all freshwater. How to use a stinger hook several ways to catch Striped Bass with li. What size hooks for striper fishing.
When using worms a short- shank bait-holder type hook in size 2 1 or 10 will work best. If you choose to use clams or cut baits for bait bait-holder hooks in sizes 10 20 and 30 will give you the best results. This video demonstrates how to rig a Berkley style rubber shad lure bait Texas style for striped bass fishing.
The technique can be applied to other kinds. Once you get shad around that light you can go to town with your fishing rig and bring stripers in all night long. You can check out a post I wrote about the hottest Striper fisheries in the southwest here.
I think we have touched on most of the ways how to rig for striper fishing. If you are reading this and you see that we have forgotten. Bunker chunks are one of the best baits to use for striped bass fishing.
Bunker should be cut into chunks as shown in the picture on the right. Use all the chunks except the tail. Do use the head.
Some of the biggest stripers are caught using the head. Fish-finder rig or a three-way-rig. I usually dont use circle hooks when fishing with bunker.
The beginning of the video below will show you how to effectively fish a swim shad lure for striper in a river current. Basically you can either do a relatively steady retrieve and allow the paddle tail to do the work and create the action in the water. Like any other type of fishing you will need to have the necessary tools for striper fishing.
This ranges from the protective gears lures casting rod hooks and other important items. This will help you as an angler get more positive results. For that case here is a detailed list of things you need for striper fishing.
The second anchor keeps the boat from swinging and tangling the fishing lines. Dead baits such as shad or bream are hooked to lines and cast around the boat. Baits are fished on the bottom while others are suspended at various depths.
When available live bait is used in conjunction with the dead bait. Happy Holidays From HeadshakeTV. The Crew Headed Out To Lake Havasu Arizona To Fish For Striper With The Candy Bait Live Shad.
We Were Using Size 10 Mosqui. I then hook the shad upward through both lips peel off from 6 to 12 feet of mono or braid and pinch the release to my line. The split ring keeps the board on the line when a striper hits which doesnt impede a big stripers fight in the least and is a lot more convenient than chasing after a loose board floating downstream in swift current.
When you use a 10 or 20 fishing hook and a suitable fishing rod fishing line and bait your chances of success increase significantly every time you go fishing. In my opinion the best thing about size 10 and size 20 hooks is the fact that they are perfect for presenting live baits such as bluegill and shad. Most Delta style bait fishing is done with an octopus hook tipped sliding sinker rig so grab a leader armed with a 90 or 100 hook and snap it on the swivel at the end of your main line.
Next grab a shad out of the cooler and place it on a cutting board. The swim shad arrived on the fishing scene around 2000. This soft-plastic lure features a realistic profile a lifelike eye an integrated weight and a paddle tail.
The Swim Shad quickly became a favorite lure among striper fishermen both from the boat and from shore. Striper fishing with circle hooks- until now we have been talking about bait hooks. Circle hooks or a similar type of hook used for catching striper with live bait.
Supposedly they are supposed to look in the corner of the lip more easily and help you to have less fish that get away. I want to fish them when we take a break. I can row the boat while she relaxes and still have lines in the water to possibly catch a great fish.
I have the appropriate rodsreelsline just need to know how I rig the live shad up so it is in the strike zone. After the spring spawning run stripers can be caught with shad over flats near the river channel in the main part of the lake. Trolling with deep running lures can also be productive.
Stripers surface frequently in summer fall and winter attracting diving sea gulls who also like to feed on threadfin shad. No hook set. As mentioned above they hit it and they are hooked.
If you see a big hit and they are not hooked you usually reel up nothing but a shad head due to a short strike. The hook does its job if they enhale it. I prefer the larger hooks because Hybrid will engulf a shad.
And the short fish tend to swallow the small hooks more. Another great trick for early spring freshwater striper fishing is trolling. In this tactic you will put the lure down ranging from 15 to 30 ft where the stripers hang around most of the time during colder weather.
Some of the great locations for troll fishing are the humps near bridges steep bluffs river edges and mouths of tributaries. How Does a Circle Hook Work. When a striper takes the bait the circle hook is designed to slide out of the fishs throat and catch in the corner of its jaw.
When a striped bass hits the bait I let the line free-spool as the bass starts its run. While pointing the rod towards the fish the bail is snapped shut and as the fish pulls the line. Gizzard shad are excellent striper baits.
Perhaps second only to alewives these are tremendous summer baits once netted. Fish them exactly as I laid forth above in the alewife section. Threadfin shad are not as popular a bait for big stripers are gizzard shad and alewives but they can be just as effective.