Yesterday I went out in my brother's boat to fish Boston Harbor for stripers. This is a place that has fascinated me for a long time, and a place I have been exploring this year. The structure, currents and nooks and crannies here are phenomenal, and there always seems to be some moving water. We found a good number of schoolies in several locations. We also had a number of big fish follows. All of our fish were taken today casting skinny plastic, and fishing them in a variety of ways. Here are a few ways that are working:1. We landed several fish in the traditional way. Rig either a curvy worm hook or swimbait hook (screw type device up front) to the head of the skinny plastic. Cast and reel in slowly while twitching the rod tip. Lately, the white or rainbow trout, 7 1/2 inch Slug-Gos have been hot (see photo at right).
2. Use a small skinny plastic body like a 6 inch Hogy. Thread it onto a small jighead (1/2 oz. or less). Cast and work it in like a jig with pumps of the rod tip. We found a worm hatch going on yesterday and the white Hogy on a jighead worked well (see photo at left).
3. Use a small skinny plastic body on a swimbait hook and attach this to a float that has about 3 feet or trailing mono. This is a hot producer in rough water and wind in your face. Work it by reeling slowly and twitching the rod tip as you come in. It was a great producer in the spring for me.
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| Here are two effective ways to rig skinny plastic. The top bait is hooked with a curvy wide gap worm hook. The bottom bait is rigged with a swimbait hook. Both ways produce well. |
