i keep em on the brain too Travis, but i can only target them at certain seasons with my lack of live bait keep-ability. LOL. so i throw artificials and dunk the occasions small bluegill. I know the size bait they are chasing and my experience, as limited as it is, with stripers, if they are feeding on 5" threadfins and your using a 6"-8" bait, artificial or live...your just getting casting practice cause they aint gonna hook up. This is just solely MY experience so far the past few years. Once the summer settles in and skippies and gizzards and all schooled up in the system, then ive found my hook-ups go up.
Juice, i did not keep them. i keep some 80lb braid in the boat and was just about to make a engineered stringer, but thought, if i only catch one (which usually happens to me when im unprepared but try to keep fish) i have to drag this fish all around the river, in the boat, out of the boat, ect, then dirty my knife for 1 fish, find some place to dump the guts so they dont bake in the trash can for a week. just a hassle to me.
Rest assured, i wont be making THAT mistake again. lol
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