How to fish an inlet jetty for striped bass
Read the current edge, choose an upstream cast and control the lure through it. A practical guide to inlet jetties, close rock edges and changing flow.
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Structure
6 posts on structure.
The river taught you how to fish the ocean
Wild brown trout spend 86% of their foraging time sitting still beside fast water, and the lab has measured what that buys them — including the finding that at high flow the cheapest place to hold was in front of the rock, not behind it. Here is what that teaches about holding water on the coast.
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You probably cannot spook a school of bass the way you think you can
The idea that a hooked fish releases something that shuts down the rest comes from carp and minnows. Striped bass are not in that lineage and have no known equivalent. That is not permission to be sloppy: fish watch each other, and in carp, fish that saw a catch-and-release stayed hook-shy for hours.
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Is Saturday's fish still there on Tuesday?
Tagged striped bass stayed in one Massachusetts bay for 6 to 75 days. On a migration corridor off Maryland the same species averaged about two. Your spot is not holding a population of residents — it is holding a flow, and that changes what a good spot even means.
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The most underfished window on the coast is the morning after
Two of New England's most experienced surfcasters, working different water and never citing each other, describe the same storm sequence in three phases — and both say the same phase is the one nobody fishes.
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How to read a rip — where striped bass actually hold in moving water
A rip is the most readable piece of striper water on the coast. What makes one form, where the fish hold in it, how to find rips on a chart from Maine to Connecticut, and the one wind condition that should send you home.
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