Bay fishing for strikers

[steelydan]

I'm heading down to Virginia for turkey day, with wife, kids and boat in tow. Gonna try my luck for some stripers but never fished for them. Anyone have any tips or info on catching them in the bay? Not Chesapeake bay but close. I don't want to spot burn the bay's by naming them. Any info on where to start or what to look for would be great

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Edited November 22, 2016 by steelydan

[moonfish]

Just watched a Roland Martin episode on stripers. They found schools and hand casted top water walkers with good success. They also trolled and handcasted large swimbaits as well as umbrella rigs with two chasers (trailing swimbaits). Caught more than they could handle, sometimes 6 on at once. Try searching utube including body of water & striper.

[lrg355]

Just remember, the limit is 3

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[steelydan]

Actually it's 1. 28" minimum size

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[steelydan]

Live eels around the bridges is working well but still need to find the 28"ers

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Edited November 24, 2016 by steelydan

[ontherise]

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[Sk8man]

Eels on a slip rig or sand worms will get them when the artificials don't. My best luck has always been with the live bait for big ones. Fish around riptides or swirls around eddys if you can find them.

Edited November 25, 2016 by Sk8man

[steelydan]

Thanks everyone for the input. Looks like I'm a week or 2 early, they mostly are still I little north of here yet. I did get about a dozen or so 21"ers but no keepers. Mostly on live eels around bridges and white buck tail jigs tipped with Berkeley gulp.

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[Sk8man]

On the plus side of things is that those 21 inchers probably represent a strong year class and in a couple years they will be very nice keepers