dust off your striper flies...

[Alex Binsted]

Over the past week an unusual amount of early season striped bass have been hitting shad darts and flies.  This, of course, is common late in the season when the herring start thinning out but is very rare early on when the bigger stripers are around.  This is indicating that there are very few herring in the river.  In short, these big stripers are hitting lures which gives us a rare opportunity to target some of these larger fish without stooping to cut bait.

So after hearing about several of these stripers today I decided to take a quick foray after work to see what I could troll up from the depths.  After about 20 seconds of rowing with my Redfin in the the water I had one on... (see photo)

Oh, and the shad bite was pretty good today also.

See you in the morning.

-Alex

[Charlie Church]

nice fish man! sounds like an awesome way to end the day

[Sam Hauser]

Earlier You were complaining about having to hear stories about fish all day. I told you you always end up with he best fish in the end. Nice striper!

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On Apr 6, 2013, at 8:55 PM, Charlie Church <charlie...@gmail.com> wrote:

nice fish man! sounds like an awesome way to end the day

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[Lane Smith]

What size shoe do you wear Alex?

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[Alex Binsted]

I wear a 10. The fish was in the 29" inch range.

[Lane Smith]

Dang!

[Barnett Williams]

What were you using to fish here and how were you rigged? Nice catch!