Stripers

As soon as the “Bully of New Bern Avenue” was conversing with the nurse about my reluctance to use the walker, I was plotting mutiny with her congenial candy-stripers on the opposite side of the bed.

That’s why Love asked anglers last year to let him know about catches of hybrid stripers.

I’d caught plenty of stripers, but they were all short.

Now the board may look at narrowing the window even more in the Maine fishery to allow the stripers to rebound.

A Zara Spook, Jumpin’ Minnow, Super Fluke or similar bait will catch boiling stripers.

But the Stripers couldn’t push the winning run across.

Night fishing for stripers on the route 50 bridge has been good the past week or so despite dirty water conditions.

Nob Wimmer was using his homemade 1.5-ounce spoon and consistently tossing stripers in the cooler.

Try casting a fly to the slurping fish and do not be surprised to catch some very nice, healthy stripers in the process.

We also tried trolling early along the east wall of Padre Bay and found stripers willing to hit Live Target Shad (Silver-Bronze) crankbait.

Walleye are caught periodically while trolling for stripers or dragging a bass bait along the bottom.