How do you catch Striped Bass.

[sailfish4me]

I"ve always been curious about how you catch them little buggers I don't know of any riggs to use for them or anything.
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[daymere]

Food:
Striped bass eat a variety of foods, including fish such as alewives, flounder, sea herring, menhaden, sand lance, silver hake, tomcod, smelt, silversides and eels, as well as lobsters, crabs, soft clams, small mussels, sea worms and squid. They feed most actively at dusk and dawn, although some feeding occurs throughout the day. During the midsummer they tend to become more nocturnal. [li]Angling Tips:
Angling after dusk or dawn provides the greatest success most of the season, but night fishing is often best during the midsummer. Anglers are most successful when fishing the shoreline in areas where tidal rips, strong currents or wave action create turbulent "live" water.
When surf fishing the beaches with swimming plugs and live eels many anglers prefer the 10 to 12 foot surf rod and conventional reel spooled with 30 to 40 pound test monofilament line. However, a medium to heavy spinning rod with 12 to 20 pound test monofilament line is considered ideal by many anglers for plugging, jigging or offering bottom fished baits to bass. Lures are attached directly to the line with a snap swivel. When bait fishing, the preferred rig consists of a pyramid sinker attached to a fish finder and about 2 feet of leader with a brightly colored float attached close to the hook. The float keeps bait away from bottom dwelling crabs, dogfish and skate.
Live lining of herring, pogies or mackerel can be a very productive means of taking large bass. A fairly stiff boat rod with a conventional reel is the preferred rig. Bait fish are hooked through the back or snout using either a single or treble hook.
When trolling for bass adjacent to shoreline areas, the rod should be equipped with a high ratio conventional reel and either carboloy, aluminum oxide or silicon carbide guides to prevent line wear. By choosing among monofilament, lead core or wire lines, depths from the surface to the bottom can be trolled. Many lures, including swimming plugs, jigs, tube and worm and umbrella rigs as well as live herring, pogies and eels lend themselves well to trolling for stripers.
[li]Handling:
Stripers should be bled, gutted and iced immediately after capture. If they are iced in a large cooler the melt water should be drained occasionally so the fish do not soak in warming water. If they are iced in a boat fish box, remove the fish box's drain plug. [/li]
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[tubeN2]

What area are you fishing for them. It will make a big difference if you are fishing fresh or saltwater.

Are you fishing for an anadromous species of striper or is it landlocked??? East Coast or West Coast? North or South of the 33rd Parralel??

There are several different tactics that are particular to zones, type of water, geographic region, water temp, and only partial influence by Moon Phase.[cool]
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[guppyslayer]

i've caught quite a few on a lot of different kinds of jigs fished on the bottom in areas where shad are running.
Most of the folks that go after the bigger ones here in TN use live skipjack tho.

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[Fishhound]

As was mentioned, the method will depend on where you are fishing.

Here in Utah, I have used trolling plugs, spoons and spinners, I've also used jigs and casting the same stuff that I trolled and jigged with, and I've still fished with bait under floats. So as you can see, a variety of tactics can be effective.

It is also common in this area to chum anchovies for them as well.
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[Kraizee_Skot]

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[font "Baskerville Old Face"][#ff4040][size 3]I have never caught striped bass either, but hopefully this year I will make it down to Lake Powell and have a go at them.[/size][/#ff4040][/font]
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[font "Baskerville Old Face"][#ff4040][size 3]Here in Utah I have heard of people catching them with jigs tipped with bait, or even just a piece of anchovy on a hook. I guess it all depends on where you are like everybody says.[/size][/#ff4040][/font]
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[tubeN2]

Lake Powell tends to behave just like the Cali waters. Anchovy plays a starring role in that picture.

In shallow waters, you can dropshot, dropper loop, reverse dropper loop or even flyline a whole anchovy for the stripers.

Deeper waters are best trolled very slooooooooowly.
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[gdn443]

In-Fisherman had some articles on that a couple of months ago, Freshwater that is. Live bait seemed to be the ticket for them.
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