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Date: August 27, 2006 at 12:31:10
From: Joe Shea, [pool-72-93-24-147.bstnma.east.verizon.net]
Subject: Re: Night fishing is a big part of striper fishing


I've been using the Zipka light by Petzle all season and love it. It has four settings, Arc-welder, just right, too dim, and human-lighthouse(flashes). Everyone who fishes at night should have these hands free lights. I like the idea of a night fishing board. If all techniques are welcome then I'm in. Let's start with a theory I've developed over the last four nights fishng Steep Hill in Ipswitch. Steep Hill is sort of a sloping rockpile/point on Cranes Beach. Simply stated the fish position themselves amongst the rocks based on depth of water. As the current flows strongly over this point and the tide rises and floods more of the bar I think the fish are adjusting their position to maintain a certain depth rather than choosing their location based deflection of current or concentration of bait. I've fished Steep Hill most nights this week. Using a 9 inch rigged Sluggo I caught alot of fish. By adding and subtracting weight I could dead-drift and swing(yes! Dead-drifting a 9in. Sluggo) the lure through the rocks shallow and deep. Each night as the tide rose the band of productive water rose up the bar. The fish seemed to stay at lets say 5ft. The differnces in structure and current didn't seem to matter. That 5ft depth would be extra productive for several hours of tide. These were all very dark nights. Maybe on those backside-of -the-moon type of nights, they need a certain amount of light to hunt well. They adjust their position shoreward to stay on the bottom and 5ft deep. I tried adding weight and casting long to fish previously(in that tide) hotspots. I tried weightless and worked shallow. No go. It was 5ft or bust. Night after night. I know, I know, the bait may have been traveling in that depth. For the bulk of a tide? Going from sand beach to sloped rock pile with current? Don't know about you, but these are the kind of thoughts night fishing generates with me. The solitude that is so much a part of night fishing can allow your mind to relax and wander down some odd, even fanciful paths. The sloitude can also allow for intense, razor-sharp concentration. I'm not sure which type of thinking my depth-is-all theory falls under.


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