popular fishing theories

[Pete_G]

For example, does the bait really get pushed around by the wind?

Seems like for the past few days the bait (predominantly baby bunker) off RI has been on a steady march to the East, into the wind. I'm much more a believer that the bait goes where the bait goes and not much more. It probably moves to eat more then anything else, like most other fish in the sea.

How about black at night? While it's always a good bet, it's definitely not something I live and die by.

[basswipe]

Originally Posted by Pete_G

How about black at night? While it's always a good bet, it's definitely not something I live and die by.

Black or dark colors are one of the first things I try once its dark.But then again I've caught fish on just about every color at night.

[Tony G]

Most bait fish or all fish for that matter swim nose into the current.
The current could be could be tidal or windblown.
Some of the best Peanut blitzes here in NJ come when we have hard off shore winds.The sawtooth surf line on the horizon is a good sign as I don't think small bait fish like it where it's too rough.With there noses pinned into the current they would end up right at Ur feet in the first curl.There could be situations where the a wind picks up an pins bait in a pocket,trough or hole an the bass gang up on em like a diner bell has been rung.The best scenario is in the changing winds from a on coming front.thats the five alarm diner bell.I have had awesome fishing throwing a bomber type lure into a 25 mph wind.it goes about 20 ft.Fish on every cast.
In the spring here in NJ we have had these huge pods of adult Bunker.They would act like a vacuum an basically suck all the fish in the direction they where going.I would plan my next mornings outing on the direction I thought the bait was moving.For example south wind,bait moves south.It was a good plan for the most part.
Soon our shores will be filled with migrating pods of juvenile Mullet an Bunker.These 4" striper candies My guess, would be happy hugging the shoreline where they can find cover in the form of grass,rocks an troughs on there treks to warmer water.Storms an onshore winds will put em off shore as they know the washer machine action of a crashing surf makes em easy prey for larger fish with better ability to swim in rougher water.They will ball in effort to appear like a whale or something large as it is there only defense.
There might be situations like when a onshore wind brings water temps to the liking of baitfish that will keep em close the shore.Nothing is garuanteed.Thats for sure, thats why we go when we can an try to stockpile as much info so we can map a gameplan that might be more productive.When u stop thinkin fishing stops being fun.

[Tony G]

If a black plug appears better in a dark night does a big white plug appear smaller to a bass??
I have often done well throwing a big A-40 in white on the darkest of nights.
Places like montauk where the baitfish of the day can be the size of Ur pinkie nail.Why use a Big plug like that when the bait is so tiny? One reason it cast further than smaller offerings.But that would not have mattered if i wasn't scoring.Perhaps the big plug looks like a small school of bait as the profile might appear more vague in the fishes eye.Something I have often thought of.How many times have u been out an 90 percent of the fish Ur catching are hooked everywhere in the head but the mouth.I think the bass are just crashing the pile in effort to suck in all the little bait they think they see in a mad dash.In one of my travels I had a ten day trip in Nantucket around a dark moon.It's darker than whoopy goldberg out there.A pearl bomber was the hot plug as we tonged bass 15-35 lbs every cast.The bait was squid...
A pearl bomber has been my one of my #1 lures for yrs.first bomber out of the bag no matter what the spotlight in the night is doing.
Plain black to me is boring.I almost always throw black n purple instead.My second favorite color.
What baitfish is black an purple???
Most fish are 2-tone in color.If a bait is olive an white why is black so important.it might not look right to the bass as they might not see what they eat so clearly.I think thats why most plugs are multi colored.Go to the SWE an look at the range of color that the Super Strike dude paints his needles in.They must have been the hot color at some time.Bright nights can be tricky as i have have had productive light lures turned off by midnight cloud cover.It's hard to cover all the bases in a ten tube space..As a rule i will go with darker plugs on dark nights an lighter plugs on brighter nights. I also like to live on the edge an give this philosophy a twist.I throw em the change-up.Works for me..

[Tony G]

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