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I picked up my first big striper today! I was in my little home made boat testing my new firmware on its joystick controller and decided to do a little fishing while I was at it. All said and done I ended up pulling in a 34” 14lb striped bass on a slow trolled modified AC Plug.
I caught him around one of the trout plant areas. I can’t believe it, for the last two years I thought everyone was stretching the truth about big stripers in these waters!
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Here he is on my garage floor pre-op...
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Stomach contents... Looks like this one was hungry. A couple 9"-11" trout and a sunfish?
I always wondered if those $$$ 8" swim baits were too big. I guess not!
He's now wrapped in plastic and foil waiting for my grill. I know they say that the big ones aren't that great for eating, but I can't let him go to waste.
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I hooked into him around 10:30. I just kept telling myself to stick to the AC plug and used my second pole to satisfy my need to keep changing things every 30 seconds.
I am not sure how fast I was moving. My rigg is powered by two Endura 30 trolling motors but I've got a homebrew joystick controlled PWM skidsteer controller. My LCD display isn't working yet so I just set my speed by feel, just fast enough that my line was tugging about two to four times a second. By the boat the lure was running just fast enough to roll and wobble. I tried to keep in close to the swallows.
The mods are small. I changed out the rear treble for a red, smaller, sharper one. I also have an E-Chip rigged on there, I don't know if this REALLY helps at all. Also, my AC plug is quite banged up, the finish just started peeling off the first time I used it.
Has anyone here caught anything on those really $$$ huddleston deluxe?
I just bought one of those Casitas Swimbaits, I'll have to try it out next time...
BTW: It was a 9" AC Plug Minnow Rainbow Trout.
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Thanks for more info. Sounds like your hooked on big stripers now! Hope you get another one.
Every year I pledge to put the time in to catch a big striper....... and every year I end up fishing for quantity instead. Maybe this year will be different.
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E chips work well on trolled lures.
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Congrats on the great fish!! That was a hungry SOB. Two trout a bluegill and he wanted a third trout, thats my kind of fish.
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Good job man! That picture gives us all hope!!!
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[cool]Way to go Demolitron! Nice to see someone got a double digit from the plants. They do like to fill up on the trout. I got a big one years ago that had three 9" trout in his belly. This is the begining with more biguns to follow.
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Hey Demolitron,
Fantastic job on a great fish. How deep were you trolling? How did it end up tasting?
Best regards,
Paul
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Thanks! I'll surely be spending my days on the lake this fall/winter with my big tackle.
The AC Plug runs right on the surface kicking up one heck of a wake and making a clacking noise with its jointed body. I am going to try out one of the Castias baits next time around, in addition to the AC plug.
I haven't cooked it up yet, maybe it will be a Striper day instead of turkey day...
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