| During the early to middle '90s, before I
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| | many color changes, I was fishless and
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| had any thoughts of becoming a striped
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| | befuddled. The alwifes continued to
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| bass guide or professional striped bass
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| | spawn, making swirling sounds against the
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| angler, I used to pursue these tackle
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| | bank, and the stripers continued to blow
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| busting brutes solely at night with
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| | up on them. I tried the Rebels in
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| artificial lures. My all time favorite
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| | assorted colors and the redfins as well,
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| lure of choice was the Rebel 6" Spoonbill
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| | but no luck. As I was digging through my
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| Minnow. My preferred colors where blue
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| | tackle box in desperation I retrieved a
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| back with silver sides, black back and
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| | tangle of lures and noticed a sound
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| yellow back. Another of my favorite lures
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| | coming from the tangle that resembled the
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| for night fishing for stripers was the
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| | sound the alwifes would make when
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| Cotton Cordell Redfin.
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| | spawning on the surface.
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| I would normally start night fishing for
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| | As I untangled the mass of hooks and
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| stripers on my favorite lakes here in
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| | lures I found within a redfin I had
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| Virginia around the first week of March.
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| | forgotten about. It was a black backed
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| The fish at this time of year would start
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| | and silver sided jointed model. I tied it
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| to move up onto shallow points, into
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| | on and tested it beside the boat. As I
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| creeks and along flats to feed
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| | pulled it across the surface slowly I
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| aggressively at night on baitfish.
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| | noticed it made a sound like the spawning
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| During March I would catch a lot of fish
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| | alwifes on the bank. I repositioned the
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| just before to right after dark with the
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| | boat and fired a cast down the bank.
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| bite moving later and later into the
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| | About 4 cranks into the slow retrieve
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| night as the season progressed to the
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| | there was a monstrous blow up at the bait
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| spawn in May. You could always tell if
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| | and I was into the first fish of many I
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| hungry stripers were feeding in an area
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| | would boat in the next hour. It was a
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| at night by the tell tale popping noises
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| | wonderful night and I caught numerous
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| they would make on the surface when
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| | fish over 20 pounds and one pushing
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| engulfing a baitfish. I would cast the
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| | thirty.
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| Rebel to the sound along the bank in the
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| | I stayed in the area until the action
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| dark and use an agonizingly slow retrieve
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| | subsided and at this point I was tired,
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| to entice strikes from these large fish
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| | so I decided to lay down in the boat and
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| that were very wary in the shallow water.
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| | rest my eyes for a while. I awoke to the
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| You would have to real the lure extremely
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| | sound of fish breaking and chasing bait
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| slow, barely moving it. The explosive
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| | on the surface. It was just at daylight
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| strikes would come without warning,
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| | and the stripers were breaking the
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| sometimes right at the boat. This is very
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| | surface all around my boat. I picked up
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| exciting action and anyone who likes to
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| | my fishing rod and cast the redfin into
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| striper fish should try it.
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| | the middle of the frenzy. The stripers
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| During one fishing trip on Virginia's
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| | would blow up on the plug and knock it
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| Smith Mountain Lake, I had left a friends
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| | out of the water, but I could not get a
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| house on the lake in my 20 ft. Winner
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| | hook in one. The fish went down and gave
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| bass boat around 12 A.M. The time of year
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| | me a chance to change lures to a large
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| was May and I proceeded down the lake to
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| | popping plug I had. A few minutes later
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| Cedar Keys cove where at this time the
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| | they surfaced again and I cast the popper
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| stripers would congregate to spawn in
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| | in amongst them. On the second chug of
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| large numbers. As I approached "The
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| | the popper a 20 lb. fish engulfed the
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| Keys", as the cove in Witcher Creek was
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| | bait and I had another fight on my hands.
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| called, I shut down the motor just
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| | The fish went down before I boated and
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| before reaching the mouth of the cove and
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| | released this fish. It was over and they
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| listened. I was in deep water and the
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| | would not return. It had been a very good
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| banks here fell away sharply. As I
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| | night and morning and I headed for the
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| listened into the night I could here the
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| | dock.
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| tell tale popping of some extremely large
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| | Whenever you are amongst fish and can not
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| fish to my right. Apparently they had
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| | make them bite. Try different techniques
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| moved in on the spawning alwifes that
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| | and lures. Sometimes the small changes
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| were swirling right up next to the steep
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| | you make such as color or sound or even
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| banks. The fish were enhaling them right
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| | retrieve speed can be the difference
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| against the banks as they were in there
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| | between getting skunked and having a
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| spawning frenzy
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| | career trip.
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| I moved in slowly with my electric
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| | If you are an avid fisherman, you know
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| trolling motor and positioned the nose of
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| | the importance of having quality
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| the boat toward the bank, enabling me to
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| | electronics on board. Visit for a full
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| cast my Rebel parallel to the bank, up
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| | line of quality GPS and marine
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| close, and slowly retrieve the lure back.
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| | electronics at super savings unmatched
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| The feeding was fast and furious and I
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| | anywhere else.
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| was on pins and needles, expecting a
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