I made the move away from the upper Bay to the cooler waters southward yesterday evening. It paid off with the best evening of fishing I have had in weeks. The score for the night was 13 stripers from 18-26 inches and a lone blue.If you get The Fisherman magazine, you'll see I have an article in this week's issue ( May31) titled Imitating Sand Eels. Those tactics outlined in that article worked like a charm on last night's fish. There was a lot of small bait around so I went with a teaser (Red Gill, see photo on right) rigged ahead of a 6 inch white Hogy. That rig landed 3 double headers (see photo on left). For the night, I got about half the fish on the teaser and half on the Hogy. A teaser rig will be one of your prime offerings in the coming weeks when there will be a combination of small sandeels around as well as other small bait. Right now is prime time to start adding a teaser to your leader.
