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    Rudow's e-Guide to Chesapeake and Delmarva Striper Fishing
    Rudow's e-Guide to Chesapeake and Delmarva Striper Fishing
    Rudow's e-Guide to Chesapeake and Delmarva Striper Fishing
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    Rudow's e-Guide to Chesapeake and Delmarva Striper Fishing

    By Lenny Rudow

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    This book is a collection of how-to/where-to striped bass fishing articles by noted fisherman/outdoors writer Lenny Rudow. In it, he covers detailed tackle, tactics, and locations for targeting rockfish while angling in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, and off the Delmarva coast. Chumming, trolling,light-tackle casting, night fishing, eeling, jigging, and more are all explained.
    The book includes 16 distinct chapters which address specific tactics and places striper anglers will be interested in. Chapter one covers how to fish tributaries and the shallows, when strong winds make accessing the Chesapeake or larger waters impossible. Chapter two covers how to bottom bounce (a trolling technique). Fishing at warm water discharges such as Calvert Cliffs is covered in chapter three. Next, Rudow addresses tactics for locating larger fish, when lots of throw-backs are around. In chapter five, the do's and dont's of shallow water light tackle casting are covered. Then in chapter six, basic and advanced fall chumming techniques are addressed. Chapter seven focuses on night fishing, and chapter eight, on how to target trophy spring stripers on light tackle. Then in chapter nine, the topic is live-lining for stripers. Chapter ten is a where-to article on Poplar Island. Chapter eleven deals with locating and catching late-fall sea-run trophy fish. And in chapter twelve, Rudow covers how to fish the Chesapeake Bay Bridges, the rockpiles, and the sewer pipe. In thirteen, he addresses the specifics of fishing Thomas Point. In chapter fourteen, the topic is how to eel for stripers. Fifteen covers both the basics and advanced tactics for spring chumming, and finally, in chapter sixteen we learn low-light tactics that will help anglers fill their fishboxes.
    Anglers up and down the coast have been reading Lenny Rudow's how-to/where-to fishing articles for decades. This e-guide is the first in a series meant to collect his writings into a species-specific work which will allow anglers and fishermen to get the exact knowledge they need to catch more fish. The information is detailed, and specific.
    "I don't believe in writing about generalities," Rudow says. "You can find a million articles and books that are a little helpfull, but it's hard to fish fishing books which really do give away the "secret" tips and tricks that make the difference between catching a fish or two, and having a full fishbox. Rudow's e-Guide to Chesapeake and Delmarva Striper Fishing will include that information. You have my word on it," he said.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLenny Rudow
    Release dateOct 7, 2012
    ISBN9781301666553
    Rudow's e-Guide to Chesapeake and Delmarva Striper Fishing
    Author

    Lenny Rudow

    I'm Senior Editor for Boats.com and Yachtworld.com, and have been a full-time writer for over 20 years. I write mostly about fishing and boats, and have six books in print plus the e-books you'll see here.

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      Rudow's e-Guide to Chesapeake and Delmarva Striper Fishing - Lenny Rudow

      Rudow’s e-Guide to Chesapeake & DelMarVa Striper Fishing

      Lenny Rudow

      Copyright 2012 by Lenny Rudow

      Published by Lenny Rudow at Smashwords

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment, only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Introduction

      In the years since The Fisherman magazine ceased publication of the Maryland/Mid-Atlantic edition, I’ve had countless anglers come up to me at fishing shows and seminars, and express how much they wish they could get all of those how-to/where-to articles I used to write for the magazine. I’ve also heard a lot of folks say that they really miss the publication, and how they used to look forward to it coming in the mail every week. With this new series of e-books I’m hoping to at least partially fill that void. Organizing those older articles by target species of fish and tactics, I put together the best of them, updated the information, and added several new articles so there would be fresh and interesting information no matter how good your memory is. I’ve started here with stripers – it seems to be the natural move – and will do the same for all the species of fish we target here in the Chesapeake and along the Atlantic coast.

      I’ve priced this e-books at just $6.99 (those with fewer articles will cost less), or about the cost of a few editions of The Fisherman before they shut it down. The Fisherman used to have four or five features per edition and you’re getting 16 articles here – that’s less than 50 cents an article – which I hope you’ll feel is more than fair. And remember, if you enjoy one or more and want to get some of my other books which are printed in hard-copy, you can always visit Schifferbooks.com or Amazon. Enjoy – and catch ‘em up!!!

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      Table of Contents

      1. Blown Away – How to fish the shallows & tributaries, if winds make the bay inaccessible

      2. Bottom Bouncing for Bass – This classic technique puts fish in the boat

      3. Calvert Cliffs & Fishing Warm-water Discharges – The heat is ON!

      4. Culling the Catch – How to find keeper stripers when little fish abound

      5. Do’s & Don’ts of Shallow Water Striper Fishing

      6. Fall Chumming – Basic & advanced tactics

      7. Hot Night Bites – 5 Chesapeake hotspots for night fishing, plus how-to info

      8. Light Fight – How to catch trophy spring stripers on light tackle

      9. Live Lining – Basic & advanced tactics

      10. Poplar Island Primer – How & where to find & catch fish near Poplar Island

      11. Chesapeake Thanksgiving – Late season tactics & hotspots for catching sea-run stripers

      12. Fishing the Bay Bridges, the rockpiles, and the sewer pipe for rockfish

      13. Thomas Point Stripers – How-to/Where-to

      14. Snake Oil – Eeling for stripers

      15. Spring Chumming – Basic & advanced tactics

      16. Sunrise & Sunset – Low-light shallow-water fishing tactics

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      Blown Away

      How to fish the shallows & tributaries, if winds make the bay inaccessible.

      Your boat is fueled, the bait’s in the cooler, and the fishing reports are hot—too bad the weatherman predicts howling winds all weekend. Wait a sec, don’t throw in the towel so fast. On the Chesapeake Bay and similar bodies of water there are options aplenty when you’ll get blown away on the open bay. The many tributaries and an uneven shoreline mean you can find shelter from those winds, and catch stripers until your arms ache. Here’s how to make the most of your blow-out.

      PRE-DAWN is when you should get your start, because this is when fish will be hitting best in the shallows. Tie on a surface plug like a Zara Spook or a Rebel Pop-R in the four to seven inch range, for your initial casts. These plugs have rattles and make a surface disturbance that helps predators locate them even when light levels are extremely low. Cast them along the shoreline, concentrating on areas with rip-rap and bulkheads; in the mid bay on a west wind look for places like Dutchman and Thomas Points at the South River, the wall at the Naval Academy and the yard boat basin directly across the river in the Severn, and Kent Narrows (hint: look for the notch in the seawall along the south-western side of the narrows, where a large rock fell out of place). On an east wind, stick with the opposite shore and head for the east side of Eastern Bay, or tuck in behind Poplar Island.

      Give those surface plugs a steady retrieve, because fish homing in on the sounds and vibrations will have a tough time locating your lure if you move it along erratically. And remember that calmer waters are better, for fishing surface lures. If one side of a tributary is being beaten by the wind-generated waves, concentrate your efforts on the other side.

      When you have a blow-up, resist the temptation to instantly set the hook. Stripers will miss a surface plug quite often, and instantaneous hook-sets usually jerk the lure out of the water and send it flying. When that happens, the fish doesn’t have a good chance of re-acquiring its target. Instead, watch your lure constantly and when a fish misses, continue your steady pace—only set the hook when you’re sure the fish has the plug in its mouth.

      SUNRISE signals it’s time to switch up to a jig or a shallow-running crankbait. Top choices for jigs are five-inch GULP! Jerk Shad, Fin-S, or BKD’s. Chartreuse is usually the best producing color though white is also a winner at times, and go to purple or root-beer in stained water. Fish these jigs with varying retrieves until you discover exactly how the stripers want it: fast, slow, constant, erratic, etcetera. Remember that plastics with long, slender tails don’t have too much life-like motion on their own, and you need to add it to the lure by twitching the rod tip as you retrieve. Beginners and lazy anglers may be better off choosing paddle-tail plastics or crankbaits instead, since they have plenty of motion of their own when retrieved.

      Use these lures in the same types of areas you cast your plug, and work your way down the leeward shoreline of the tributary. Any rip-rapped shoreline or point can be productive, especially if it’s within 100 yards

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