June Striper fishing is fantastic, and most of our time will be spent drifting live-bait or tied up in groups of boats fishing shad. You may see a lot of trolling motors splashing on the water making noise. Yes, these work, and yes, we use a splasher propeller on all of our live-bait trips.
June is excellent Striper fishing, and Lake Texoma gets very crowded. Bring the sun-block and book early. The 4th of July Holiday is the peak of our summer season. Lots of boats, lots of fireworks, lots of people.
If you do not like crowds, July is not your season. July is another tremendous live-bait fishing month on Lake Texoma. We can fish lures, but live-bait puts limits of Striper in the cooler. We will drift live-bait more than anchoring up. Striper are moving fast, chasing the enormous schools of threadfin shad. June and July are very busy, and august Striper fishing gets tough. August is our slow month, and we will take a holiday for a few weeks, but if your only chance to fish the Striper Capital of the World is in August, we can make it happen with live-bait.
We try not to harm Striper, and when the water temperatures reach 80 plus, fish can die. Not every month is excellent on Lake Texoma, and not every day is a five-person limit, but we work very hard each trip to make sure our clients become repeat customers. The dog days of summer start to cool off, and the peak of our Topwater Plug season is near. September can be hit or miss, but when ten pound plus Striper move into three feet of water, the action is heart-stopping!
Six-inch topwater plugs cast into one foot of sandy water, and you can hardly see the lure because the sun is not up over the tree line, then you hear the explosion! Excellent work, fish on! The topwater action only lasts a few hours, then we back off of the sandy beaches into 20 feet of water and fish live-bait. September is extraordinary on Lake Texoma, come and join us. Fall striper fishing Lake Texoma can be easy!
Lake Texoma Fishing Guides welcome back their best friends, the Seagulls. This includes dead discards, which are fish that die after being caught and returned to the water. Maryland has coordinated with the ASMFC to develop regulations in compliance with its coastwide fishery management plan. After a midseason closure was inaugurated during the season, data collected by the department determined that the water quality and temperatures are more potentially harmful to striped bass during the last two weeks of July than proposed closure dates later in the season.
Skip to main navigation. Breadcrumb Home. Chesapeake Bay Striped Bass Regulations Before heading out for some striped bass fishing, be sure to brush up on the regs. Maryland In Maryland's portion of the Chesapeake Bay, it is illegal to: To possess any cut up or filleted striped bass at any time aboard any boat on the tidal waters of Maryland.
Striped bass must be landed whole. To use more than two hooks or two sets of hooks for each rod or line. Artificial lures or plugs with multiple hooks are considered one set of hooks.
To use eels as bait while fishing for striped bass with hook and line from Dec. To cull striped bass. To possess striped bass while fishing in the Chesapeake Bay or its tidal tributaries from midnight to 5 a. Anchovies, sculpins bullheads , and shrimp make up the bulk of the diet in San Pablo Bay. In the Delta and upriver areas, larger bass feed mainly on threadfin shad, young striped bass, and other small fish.
Sublegal striped bass, fish under 18 inches long, are found all year in large numbers above San Francisco Bay. It is not known whether they have a definite migratory pattern or just wander about in response to environmental cues, such as food availability.
Most adult bass, after spawning in the spring in the San Joaquin Delta and upper Sacramento River, move downstream into brackish and salt water for the summer and fall.
Many bass spend this period feeding in the bays, particularly San Francisco Bay. Some fish enter the ocean, but the actual number doing so varies considerably from year to year. Some of the larger bass move up and down the coast and are occasionally caught as far south as Monterey and as far north as Bodega Bay.
During late fall and winter, some fish move back upstream into the fresh water of the Delta and lower Sacramento River. While this general migration pattern applies to most bass, there are always exceptions. For instance, some fish remain in the American and Feather rivers during the summer and good fishing sometimes occurs in San Francisco Bay in the spring.
Therefore, many striped bass anglers have had the experience of catching fish at unexpected times and places. A parasite is an organism that derives its living from another organism.
Most fish are hosts to numerous parasites and the striped bass is no exception. A common pest and an external parasite of stripers is the Pacific lamprey. This parasite fish, eel-like in appearance, with a horny sucking disc surrounding its mouth, attaches itself to the sides of bass and sucks body fluids. When it releases itself, or is rubbed off, it leaves a round, circular wound about an inch in diameter. Two types of internal parasites found in striped bass are of particular concern.
The first of these is a tapeworm larva of the order Trypanorhyncha. Adults live in sharks and rays and the intermediate life stages live in small crustaceans and other fish, such as striped bass. Tapeworm larvae that live in crustaceans eaten by striped bass burrow through the stomach or intestine and form masses in the muscles of the adjacent body wall. The immunological response of the fish to this foreign substance often leads to the death of its own muscle tissue at the site where tapeworm larvae concentrated.
Secondary infection by bacteria may lead to a severe sore on the side of the fish. Hence, tapeworm larvae are likely the cause of most sores seen on stripers.
Most sores occur on the right side of the fish because the stomach and intestines lie closer to the body wall on that side, making it easier for the larval tapeworms to burrow into the muscles. The other internal parasites of concern are roundworm larvae of the genera Anisakis and Phocanema. Although other kinds of roundworm larvae live in bass, these two are important because the adults live in marine mammals, such as sea lions, seals, and porpoises. Because humans are mammals also, these roundworms may infect people who eat raw or undercooked fish containing larval worms.
This can lead to severe digestive problems, including stomach tumors and peritonitis. Roundworms are not restricted to stripers, but are found in many other marine fish.
Infection can be avoided by thoroughly cooking all fish before consumption. There were originally no striped bass in California. They were introduced from the East Coast, where they are found from the Gulf of St.
Lawrence to Alabama. The initial introduction took place in , when small bass were brought successfully to California by rail from the Navesink River in New Jersey and released near Martinez. Fish from this lot were caught within a year near Sausalito, Alameda, and Monterey, and others were caught occasionally at scattered places for several years afterwards.
There was much concern by the Fish and Game Commission that such a small number of bass might fail to establish the species, so a second introduction of about stripers was made in lower Suisun Bay in In a few years, striped bass were being caught in California in large numbers. By , a decade after the first lot of eastern fish had been released, bass were being sold in San Francisco markets. In another 10 years, the commercial net catch alone was averaging well over a million pounds a year.
In , however, all commercial fishing for striped bass was stopped in the belief that this would enhance the sport fishery. Almost any rod and reel heavier than a light spinning outfit is suitable for striped bass fishing. The lighter the tackle, the greater the sport, of course. Under certain conditions, however, fairly heavy tackle is desirable. For example, heavy tackle is generally necessary in charter boat fishing to prevent undue fouling of lines, and in certain types of deep-water fishing involving the use of heavy sinkers.
The novice should consult one of the bait and tackle stores in the striped bass fishing area for information about the types of leaders, hooks, and sinkers used by striped bass anglers.
To avoid catching too many undersized stripers, it is advisable to use hooks at least half an inch between the point and the shank. Fewer small fish will swallow the large hooks, so serious injuries will be reduced. Remember, for successful bait fishing, it is generally necessary to keep the bait near the bottom. Strong tidal currents are usually present on striped bass fishing grounds; therefore, it is particularly important to have a varied assortment of sinkers, so the amount of weight can be adjusted to match the changing strength of the current.
Striped bass may be caught either by bait fishing or trolling.
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