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Trolling for stripers near Rappahanock, advice rockfish trolling

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Posted 26 October 2005 - 08:05 PM

Hello, I just put my boat in Deltaville and hope to head out this Friday to troll for Rockfish. I would like to know if there is advice re trolling spread for this time of year. I was planning on running umbrellas with 6 in sassy shads. Advice would be appreciated, I have not fished the Chesapeake for 5 years (was out of state) and am a bit rusty.

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Posted 27 October 2005 - 04:37 AM

I'm not sure where you'll be fishing, but if you're going to fish open waters of the bay then I think running an umbrella wouldn't be a bad idea. If you're going to troll around the spans/rocks of the bridges, then I would go with three-way swivel set up with a heavy cannonball sinker on about three feet of 30-40 pound mono on the bottom swivel and then use about 15-20' of 80lb mono off the other swivel and tie a small bucktail, storm lure(Wild Eye Shad in your choice of color), or spoon to it. Bounce this along the bottm as you slow troll over the tunnels or close to the rocks/pilings. The heavier mono allows you to hand leader in the fish and the lighter allows you to pop off if you get hung up on the bottom with out loosing your entire rig. I'd save the umbrella for open bay/ocean trolling.
You can also use an in-line sinker tied to about 10' of heavy mono with your choice of lure at then end for mid depth fish. Then there are always the Streches that you can run, too. Trolling an umbrella or a mojo in these areas is a lot of stuff($$$) to loose if you get hung up.
If you don't want to troll you can always cast to the rocks using topwater baits or storm lures or live bait on the rougher side of the structure where the wave action is. Plus you can jig over the tubes or by the pilings using bucktails or live bait on a bottom rig.
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Posted 27 October 2005 - 05:47 AM

Thankyou for the information, it looks like Friday is going to be too rough for my little boat (17 mako).

It is too far to run from Deltaville to the CBBT, I will probably stick to the edges of the shipping channel in 30-40 feet of water and try a few single bucktail/sassy shads like you describe in addition to a few umbrellas. I will let you know how it turns out once the weather clears enough.

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