James C. Michaud

After I have ensured that I have remembered to take my fishing equipment and bait, it's finally time to launch the vessel and commence trolling for striped bass.

Finding a great place to troll for striped bass with the tube and worm is the most challenging and vital aspect of tube and worm trolling. The very best gear, most effective tubes and juiciest sandworms will not catch even one striper if there are no bass in the region where you are trolling for striped bass. Therefore it's vital to construct a approach to finding prosperous areas, ahead of setting the lines and trolling for striped bass.

Full guides are actually drafted regarding how to locate striped bass. There is no doubt that moon phases, tides, weather patterns etc. all have some type of impact on where stripers go. The fact is that, where I fish in Cape Cod Bay, in spite of my earnest efforts, I have by no means managed to precisely foresee where the stripers will be based on any sort of variable.

Consider what occurred to me this past week as an example. As I publish this article, it is the middle of September and we've had a full week of continual east winds. This past Saturday the wind died to the point that it turned out dead calm. We went out on the water, located stripers in twenty ft of water within Cape Cod Bay, and reamined with them when they swam up tight to the beach. We had a fantastic night on the water, as we landed around 25 big striped bass close to 42 pounds.

Two days afterwards the same exact weather pattern happened again. An East wind died down as nighttime approached. The weather was literally identical to during the fruitful excursion of two nights ago. The phase of the moon and tides were right, and I had huge hopes for a repeat of the previous trip. We located stripers inside the identical area in 19 feet of water right off a popular swimming beach. Sadly the stripers vanished, and didn't venture in shallow. I explored all-around for three hours while not marking anything. We went home having hooked-up with just one striped bass-totally bewildered as to where the bass chose to go.

My point is that inspite of the finest approach, log book, and technology, I am often totally "bam-boozled" by striped bass. The moment I think I have them worked out, they pitch me for a loop and bring me down again to Earth.

Using a trustworthy, properly mounted, color sonar device is definitely an absolute must for that search strategy that I usually utilize. Usually there are no surface indications (breaking stripers, diving birds etc.) guiding me to the stripers, hence I had to develop a strategy using my electronic devices that helped me to locate the stripers which I believed were out there, somewhere, in Cape Cod Bay.

Furthermore , I needed a strategy that would permit me to handle great expanses of water quickly, so it is extremely important that my fish-finder work effectively at speeds of more than 20 mph.

Keeping this in mind, it is very feasible to produce a strategy that will continually provide a fantastic likelihood of experiencing fast striped bass fishing action. With a sound game plan, you might not definitely locate the fish, but you will definitely put yourself in a terrific place for having a terrific fishing trip.

Even if you fish in areas with structure or current, where bass are not spread out across vast distances, using some of the guidelines described at my fishing blog-myfishingcapecod.com-will certainly increase your odds of consistently catching big fish when trolling for striped bass.