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| It was an epic week for very large stripers. There was phenomenal numbers of slots and over slots as my son and I caught and released over 100 stripers this week. |
In the last week my son Jon and I landed over 100 stripers. The majority of those fish have been slots and over slots. In fact, the over slots have outnumbered the slots with many of those overs going over 40 inches. In the past those real large fish were pretty non-existent in RI waters until mid to late May. This year they were as abundant as schoolies.
We got a lot of our fish from shore, but we also found good numbers from the kayak when shore conditions were not favorable.
Most of our fish this week were caught on skinny plastic. From shore the 9 inch Slug-go was a hot lure. A variety of colors were working. From the kayak it was more of a finesse game as the white Albie Snax and 7 1/2 inch Slug-gos were our most effective lures.
Towards the end of this phenomenal run of big fish which brought out more and more fishermen thanks to social media, I saw a lot of fish being caught on a number of different lures. Docs, Yo-Zuri Hydro pencils, swimmers and even standard poppers were getting them.
I sense the big push of large fish has gone downhill in the places my son and I were fishing. But, no problem, since I'm sure they are still around somewhere, and I have a few good ideas about where I will be looking this week.
