Fished roundout last two days yesterday seen a lot of herring caught scaping and few caught jigging today real muddy fast and jigged three hrs one herring didn't see them catching many with stoolie either
Threw stoolie for 20 min before work in Wappingers on outgoing. Water was calm and glassy. So far had no followers as this is my first year using the scap. I know they're out there I just have to put in the time.
I don't notice a difference with the alewives. This gets mentioned every year. Unfortunately, the majority of people don't know how to properly identify them. Not that it matters bait is bait, but it's surprising to me how many people post pictures saying "bluebacks are here" and couldn't be more wrong.
Dispite the name, you cannot always distinguish them by color..
Alewives have big eyes and the diameter of the eye will be greater than the distance from the edge of the eye to the tip of the snout. Their body is deeper. Their inner cavity is light in color.
Bluebacks have significantly smaller eyes that are equal to the distance between the eye and snout. The majority of the time their bodies are more streamlined and shallow. Their inner cavity is blackish.
Sorry for the rant. Hopefully this information will be useful to someone on here.
I was told by someone, I guess was wrong, that Bluebacks have the dot behind their gill, and are generally smaller. This is only my third year so there is a lot I don't know. I had this discussion yesterday while fishing too..lol
I was told by someone, I guess was wrong, that Bluebacks have the dot behind there gill, and are generally smaller. This is only my third year so there is a lot I don't know. I had this discussion yesterday while fishing to..lol
This is a topic even seasoned vets seem to screw up.
You can't even distinguish them accurately with the dot. Follow the eye rule that I mentioned or if your using chunk you'll notice the cavity color difference is night and day. You'll never second guess yourself.
To me very easy to distinguish because they look like completely different fish. One looks just like a sawbellie on steroids the bluebacks look entirely different and do come much later than giant sawbellie and I think what striper prefer.........
Before the last slug of rain a few were reported (check back a few pages) ... I think most guys out there right now north of Catskill have been shore guys. So scapping is the way to go.
I haven't been able to fish the past couple days but, before the colder weather I was getting some followers on a stoolie near coxsackie. I was wondering, has this colder weather slowed anything down? Hopefully I can get out this weekend.
Tried the Poestenkill today at the falls and at the mouth, nothing. Did see a guy get one at the falls. Windy, cold, flurries. Came home and lit a fire in the woodstove. Try from the boat on Sunday.
Quick question... When the point in the season arrives that you can jig them in the main river, how deep are you guys anchored? It sounds like you jig up bait right from your striper fishing spots? Please correct me if I'm wrong
Herring are showing up now, scapping is definitely getting easier..
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