05-05-2003, 07:31 PM
[cool]That can be a great rig to fish with downriggers when the stripers are cruising deep in the open water. The most active ones, however, are usually chasing bait back in the coves or off points.
If you don't have downriggers, those "dipsey divers" work okay too. I tried them after moving over from California, where I used to use them for salmon too.
You will also pick up some big walleyes on those, if fished deep near the bottom in 25 to 50 feet of water. I have also seen a few northerns taken on them in the spring.
I don't know if you have seen them, but they now have some plastic lipped rigs that you can put the herring/anchovy head into and they act like crankbaits...with a lot of wiggle. Otherwise, the trap hook setup, with a bend in the bait, works just fine.
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If you don't have downriggers, those "dipsey divers" work okay too. I tried them after moving over from California, where I used to use them for salmon too.
You will also pick up some big walleyes on those, if fished deep near the bottom in 25 to 50 feet of water. I have also seen a few northerns taken on them in the spring.
I don't know if you have seen them, but they now have some plastic lipped rigs that you can put the herring/anchovy head into and they act like crankbaits...with a lot of wiggle. Otherwise, the trap hook setup, with a bend in the bait, works just fine.
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