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View Poll Results: what is your favorite striper baits
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bunker
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155 |
22.66% |
herring
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83 |
12.13% |
mullet
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25 |
3.65% |
eels
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142 |
20.76% |
clams
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148 |
21.64% |
bloodworms / sandworms / pileworms/ worms
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74 |
10.82% |
squid
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23 |
3.36% |
crabs
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8 |
1.17% |
spot
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22 |
3.22% |
Mackeral
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43 |
6.29% |
chicken liver
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7 |
1.02% |
wood plugs
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188 |
27.49% |
other lures
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124 |
18.13% |

11-10-2008, 09:26 PM
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Striper Hunter
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favorite striper bait
what is your favorite striper bait
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11-10-2008, 10:41 PM
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Re: favorite striper bait
Crap
I clicked bunker
Didn't realize that plugs would be included as an option in a bait question
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11-11-2008, 03:36 PM
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Re: favorite striper bait
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Originally Posted by Sudsy
Crap
I clicked bunker
Didn't realize that plugs would be included as an option in a bait question
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Through the magical power of editing you have now picked plugs suds.
although bunker noggins would be my bait choice as well.
At least near the raritan bay anyway.
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11-14-2008, 07:44 PM
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Re: favorite striper bait
Eeels because I like to look for the fish instead of sitting around waiting for them to find me. Plugs work fine too but I never thought of them as "bait".
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11-15-2008, 02:28 AM
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Grouchy old Bassturd
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Re: favorite striper bait
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Originally Posted by bubba105
Eeels because I like to look for the fish instead of sitting around waiting for them to find me. Plugs work fine too but I never thought of them as "bait".
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Me too! 
Bait is bait,
Lures are lures.
You can lure your bait,
or bait your lures.
Which one depends on time of day / year, where, and how. 
Too many choices, can't decide!  
Like picking only one Dallas Cheerleader for a night.
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11-15-2008, 02:14 PM
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Re: favorite striper bait
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Like picking only one Dallas Cheerleader for a night
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Now were talking.
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11-15-2008, 08:36 PM
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Re: favorite striper bait
I HAVE WENT BY WAY OF THE CLAM. AS MOST OF MY BASS FISHING IS IN EARLY SPRING AND AS I READ LIKE SUDS I WILL VOTE (BAIT) AND EELS MAY BE KING AND I WOULDA FELT OBLIGATED TO VOTE THE LONELY CRAB BUT BECAUSE OF THE PROXIMITY TO THE LARGEST CLAM BED ON THE EASTERN SEABOARD WHERE I FISH, I WILL MAKE THE CHOICE EASY.
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11-19-2008, 12:58 PM
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Re: favorite striper bait
mind telling me how u found the biggest clam bed on the east coast? so i can find the second biggest near cape cod? Just saw a special on history channel bout the BIG RED 1. amazing stuff, we're all in ur dept zimno!!!!!! now tell me where to find fish
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12-07-2008, 09:07 PM
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Re: favorite striper bait
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Originally Posted by jxa
mind telling me how u found the biggest clam bed on the east coast?
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He watches the diggers come and go every day smokin a stogie.

Re: favorite striper bait
The free kind.
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12-19-2008, 09:48 AM
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Striper Hunter
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Re: favorite striper bait
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Originally Posted by Sudsy
Crap
I clicked bunker
Didn't realize that plugs would be included as an option in a bait question
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You're not alone I did the same thing Sudsy....
LIve bunker artificals plugs for me.
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12-19-2008, 06:34 PM
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Re: favorite striper bait
I arrived at a spot on a good tide in the wee hours this spring just as a car load of guys were leaving. I made the mistake of small talk by asking if they had seen any bait and this moron stared me down and says "I dont fish bait".
So I says good for you but thats not the question I asked.
You moron.
Whatever it takes. Is my motto. There was spearing everywhere.
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12-19-2008, 08:55 PM
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Re: favorite striper bait
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Originally Posted by striperjim
I arrived at a spot on a good tide in the wee hours this spring just as a car load of guys were leaving. I made the mistake of small talk by asking if they had seen any bait and this moron stared me down and says "I dont fish bait".
So I says good for you but thats not the question I asked.
You moron.
Whatever it takes. Is my motto. There was spearing everywhere.
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Or how about the guys lookin for bunker, you're chillin out there and they come rollin up with the headlights on. They get out for 3 secs, say "hey man you seen any bait round here?", look around for another 3 secs, don't see bunker, and split. Meanwhile, the bunker are there, you just have to close your eyes and listen.
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12-20-2008, 08:06 AM
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Re: favorite striper bait
Most experiences are fun and positive. I wish they all were - but that wouldnt be too much fun now would it?
The thing that was remarkable to me was the arrogance. This guy felt superior because he was a purist and apparantly this makes him feel better than the next guy.
There was a time i would have simply told him to __ off. J/O.
I guess just calling him moron shows some personal growth. 
I have nothing against the purists I actually admire the tenacity and stubborness to go fishless when the fish are taking nothing but bait. It really is a challenge to hunt fish this way and holds a special charm unto itself.
Eels are somehow not considered as bait. But i digress.
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12-20-2008, 11:29 AM
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Re: favorite striper bait
I call it a transition, without the purest pretentious attitude.
It's not that I hate bait, It bores me. Waiting for a fish to swim by, and find a hunk of meat.
I love the challenge, especially in new places, of hunting for Bass. Reading the water, interpreting the rips and structure. Fooling a fish into thinking that a piece of wood is real.
The anticipation of the hit, right up to when the plug comes out of the water. Watching the boil as it crushes a top water, or the slam of a subsurface strike. eels bring a level of excitement almost on par with plugs, because they are fished in almost identical circumstances. On occasion a bunker head can be used in almost the same manner, drifted in a rip, or tossed into the wash of a reef. I don't even own a sinker anymore.
I have fished Bass in any and all method known for my area. Caught boatloads, literally.
trolled, drifted, and anchored a chum slick.
My life has brought me to a point that I desire the challenge of hunting for Stripers, it's no longer fishing to me. I would rather go fishless on a plug in the surf, than to land 50 from a boat using a chunk of fish meat.
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12-31-2008, 07:32 PM
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Re: favorite striper bait
I agree 100%, Gunny. It ain't fishing anymore. It's hunting and targeting.
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