This week we are in Delaware fishing for stripers with bloodworms. [Erin] Ooh.
My first time targeting stripers with bloodworms,
let's see how they work.
*laughing* Uuughhh--ohh! [Gage] Oh, it's a keeper!
Ooooh! [That's a keeper!]
So today, we're using bloodworms
very common in the northeastern area, um
lots of things bite blood worms, I've never caught stripers on 'em
but today I've got a good friend here, Gage, you may remember him from the junkyard fishing rig
he's told us that the stripers will devour this,
big stripers will devour this,
and I'm not sure if that's true or not so we're gonna test that out.
So a blood worm, basically, is a worm that has this thing that comes out of his head, right here,
you see those teeth on there? [Erin] Uugh...
It'll bite ya!
They're called blood worms because--they're filled--they're full of blood now watch this I'm gonna split it in half...
Watch what happens when I pop this right here [Erin] Eww--Ohh!
Right? Full of blood, full of scent.
[Erin] That was really gross.
So now I've got circle hooks on here
and what I'm gonna do is put it on a little bit, maybe an inch, and then rethread it another inch
and just keep doing that so that the worm stays on well.
Basically, it's a-- it's a rig with two hooks on it and a sinker at the bottom.
If you guys want to follow along or adventure today I encourage you guys
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A bigger one. What? A little one. A little one?
I don't think it's a perch, I think it's a stripe.
Yeah, it's moving left and right, it's a stripe. [Yeah]
You can tell it's a striper when it's up on the surface moving left and right...
Little stripe.
This is like the my favorite eating size striper but I never keep this size
because it's under sized, gotta throw these back.
Nice!
Now let me-- let me tell you guys something,
it's really important to let fish go
that are not of regulation, not just because it's against the law but this is--
the regulations are there to keep the fish sustainable, keep the fishing
sustainable, if we were all to take undersized fish it'd make a really big impact
on how many fish are out there, so it's important to follow regulation, don't
just keep one or two small and if it's not a regulation throw back.
It's part of the game!
Oh. Whoah.
You get stuck?
Woah.
Another baby.... Big baby...
Not big enough to eat, huh?
No, but it's the perfect size.
Perfect size to eat but not keepable right now. No.
Not now.
Oh a perch! Oh no, that's a yellow small boy.
I guess the small ones fight harder. You think the small ones fight harder?
That's a live baby one.
Bring it up.
Ha ha.
Winter fishing for stripers -- it's during the spawn these fish like shallow water [Uh huh.]
Okay, nice one. Oh, we're crossed, were crossed, we are crossed with that line.
Okay, let me get mine in, let me get mine in. Be careful.
Nice fish, Erin!
Alright.
Grab it. I'll trade ya. Oh yeaaahhh.
Alright. Good job, babe.In the middle of winter, look at that! Ho hoooo!
Yeah, beautiful. Alright. Yup. What a crazy thing, thank you Gage.
So let me just elaborate on what Brendon said earlier about circle hooks,
um, circle hooks have been researched to actually be better for fishing, um, just because you
won't have the risk of gut hooking a fish, um, [What? They're gone?] you know,
like you do with J- hooks or something else
and so if you use circle hooks, more often than not you'll get them on the river you miss up and that way you're not killing fish
that you're not like you know not intending to kill so we're only killing
fish that were intending to keep and not accidentally killing fish just because
we look at them in the guts circle hooks over Jay hooks
much more environmentally friendly so we're actually joining with this
nonprofit called Ocean Conservancy we're actually going
to begin donating a portion of each of our kits to their nonprofit they believe
and you know conserving the oceans and conserving fisheries so that future
generations can enjoy them we support that and so they actually have this
great sheet on their website about circle hooks versus Jay hooks if you
want more information about the differences between the two and why
circle hooks are a lot more environmentally friendly than Jay hooks
I'm gonna put a link below and you can go check it out this is low tide it
looks really different so during high tide what were you saying gage during
high tide this water lays about even with the energy south bay so what
happens is these fish will cruise this little levee right here five six feet
drop right here probably 20 feet for my rods this right here will fish in this
area only because that high tide especially at hypothesis prime feeding
areas these stripers which is smoothly and even like there's a sod Bank that's
popping out of the water right there things of that nature
give these fish easy feeders so when you're in the area where fish know it's
easy feed you have blood worms sitting on the bottom clam something that needs
or you're more likely to catch a fish especially back out on that
or not these babies cats are going to find a with the whoopin of her
like oh yeah get it like this
you can shout that you believe okay I'm good you know I can't get the shot that
you have what are these ladies gonna grow into
like what you see here come to the baths like when you see flirting bats
these are just a small push system bigger than these sad things into some
clay on this is it Wow baby I think you're Roxy Finn
Smulders wrong mr. Lai Oh
showers is in it oh my
something hit whatever I had on my hook and I think I have a striper those hooks
in its mouth in the same spot talk about a hungry son of a gun
Oh Fred I was enjoying I told you something hit this aisle
I'm gonna leave my thing I like that too I just leave it out there dude
I got it all done you got a fish I'm just kidding
what it was chilly yeah just so relaxing here there's no
one here it's just us and like a lot of fish yeah they stopped biting for a
little bit but got our lines out just waiting around they're gonna come back
out you're gonna come back out and play soon this one will go if anything hits
it because I set the drag to that and this one I have to watch
official army stupid gun on this ride
nice keeper perch
all right ready eat oh shit look at this one here
hold it running you see that there you see about there yeah this year drags
right make sure you're not overlapped good advice see them out there Oh
run it right right right and right oh it spawned me be careful watch your
jag
cage my man putting me on to fish again
come here I want to show you how that how the circle hook works so well if it
was a j-hook you might have swallowed it and I'm buddy I did it that's not good
you want to try and use try and use circle hooks because it'll hook it on
the slip
has to be 28
they can snipe I'm caught in the wild
dude here you didn't even get the tail
that's still that's still got another more inch 2028 yeah sure right on 28
that's right on 28 that's our keeper tonight yeah well I don't know do you
guys want to eat it or shall we just let it go let's eat um noise heck yeah
gage put me on the fish fuck man that's what I'm talking about I just did the
easy word that's what I'm talking about right there
knowing this spot is a really important part knowing how to read the tides very
important part what you see on the show is just us pulling up fish what you
don't see is all the research and the time put into learning about these fish
we all work hard as fishermen we will we all work hard no doubt about that one
let's show Schuster yeah what a great day of fishing call myself keeper
caught a lot of nice perch had a great time on some really basic principles of
fishing this is the way I've been fishing with my dad for ever since I can
remember if you guys want to go in this same adventure we have written the
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guide available for instant download I'm so happy this is like I want to give a
big thank you to a man gage over here for putting us on some fish again we
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take a look at what's inside the fish's stomach
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