Stripers in the White Water

 

A rough, white water surf is about the best condition to fish for stripers from shore. I found some beautiful water yesterday evening along a rocky shoreline here in RI.  The water was white but clean, something you don't often get.  There was also an onshore breeze that was moving the water in a turbulent current that looked like I was fishing a raging river. It was just perfect, conditions that often led to some big catches in past years in this spot.
I'd like to tell you that I killed the fish, but the truth is that I caught two schoolies.  Hey, better than nothing.  I also had two other fish come up and hit my homemade, white needlefish plug.  Before I fished here I drove along a good piece of the oceanfront and did not see one other fisherman, a telling observation about just how ...more