Once I have made sure that I have remembered to take my fishing equipment and bait, it's finally time to splash the boat and begin trolling for striped bass.

Selecting a great place to troll for striped bass with the tube and worm is easily the most tough and important aspect of tube and worm trolling. The very best gear, most effective tubes and juiciest seaworm won't catch even one striper if there are not any fish in the area where you are trolling for striped bass. Consequently it's vital to create a approach to finding prosperous waters, prior to setting the lines and trolling for striped bass.

Entire guides have already been published on how to find striped bass. There is not any question that moon phases, tides, weather patterns etc. all have some kind of affect on where stripers go. Regrettably, where I spend my time in Cape Cod Bay, despite my best efforts, I've never been able to accurately foresee the spot that the stripers will be based on any type of variable.

Consider what occurred to me earlier this week as an example. As I publish this article, it is the middle of Sept. and we have had a full 7 days of maintained easterly breezes. This past Sunday the breeze died right down to the point that that it was dead calm. We went out on the water, found striped bass in 23 ft of water inside Cape Cod Bay, and stuck with the bass as they swam right up to beachfront. It was a fantastic night on the water, while we captured around 30 keepers up to forty two pounds.

Two days later an identical weather pattern developed once again. An onshore wind died down as evening approached. The weather was literally exactly like during the prosperous trip of two nights prior. The phase of the moon and stage of the tide were right, and I had substantial hopes for a repeat of the past trip. We found bass inside the exact same place in 22 feet of water off a well-liked swimming beach. Unfortunately the stripers vanished, and didn't swim up shallow. I explored around for three hours without marking a thing. We all headed back to the dock having landed 1 striped bass-totally puzzled regarding the place that the bass chose to go.

My point is that in spite of the very best strategy, log book, and electronics, I am often completely "bam-boozled" by striped bass. The moment I think I've them figured out, they throw me on a loop and bring me down again to Earth.

Having a trusted, properly mounted, color sonar system is an absolute must for your search strategy which I usually utilize. Generally there aren't any surface indications (breaking stripers, diving birds etc.) leading me to the stripers, therefore I was required to establish a technique making use of my electronics to help me discover the striped bass which I suspected were out there, somewhere, in Cape Cod Bay.

I also needed a method that could permit me to handle great expanses of the Bay quickly, so it is essential that my sonar work well at speeds above 20 miles per hour.

Trying to keep this in mind, it is very possible to formulate a method which will routinely offer you a fantastic probability at locating striped bass. Using a reliable game plan, you might not definitely find the bass, however, you will definitely put yourself in a terrific position for producing a productive fishing trip.

Even if you fish in areas with structure or current, where bass are not spread out across vast distances, using some of the guidelines described at my fishing blog-myfishingcapecod.com-will certainly increase your odds of consistently catching big fish when trolling for striped bass.

Captain Ryan Collins fishes for striped bass and Bluefin tuna off Cape Cod, MA. Visit his blog, myfishingcapecod.com for insider tips about trolling for bass.

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