V21 Enclosure

[csvencer]

That sounds just like my night. We hit the HRBT for about an hour or two right around 8pm, the current was ripping, birds were working here and there but no hits. There were a ton of boats out there and I didn't see anyone hooking up. We then swung in to the West Norfolk Bridge and had a couple of hits but nothing back to the boat. Skunked night...sucks. Hope to see something more productive this week.

-Svence

[reelapeelin]

Originally Posted by csvencer

That sounds just like my night. We hit the HRBT for about an hour or two right around 8pm, the current was ripping, birds were working here and there but no hits. There were a ton of boats out there and I didn't see anyone hooking up. We then swung in to the West Norfolk Bridge and had a couple of hits but nothing back to the boat. Skunked night...sucks. Hope to see something more productive this week.

-Svence

Birds workin' at NIGHT?...COOL, COOL...didn't know they did that...

[Stillrunning]

Originally Posted by reelapeelin

Birds workin' at NIGHT?...COOL, COOL...didn't know they did that...

Around this area the birds work the light lines of the bridges.

[Stillrunning]

Originally Posted by csvencer

That sounds just like my night. We hit the HRBT for about an hour or two right around 8pm, the current was ripping, birds were working here and there but no hits. There were a ton of boats out there and I didn't see anyone hooking up. We then swung in to the West Norfolk Bridge and had a couple of hits but nothing back to the boat. Skunked night...sucks. Hope to see something more productive this week.

-Svence

If the fish are not hitting at the HRBT you guys need to head to the MMBT and try it there. The WNB is very hit ans miss and if you catch anything its more luck than anything. I'm guessing you left from Portsmouth City Park if you hit the WNB. You can also try casting into the lighted areas around some of the loading docks around that area. Chunking works great around the bend at the MMBT but you need a good amount of menhaden to attract the fish. The biggest problem this time of year is that there is still alot of small fish that the stripers feed on and its hard to get them to hit your baits. Thats why chunking works this time of year.

Evilgli

Like CSVENCER your better of hitting the MMBT rather then the JRB. The JRB does hold strippers but its usually not very productive. The best bet this time of year is towing down to Va. Beach and hitting the CBBT as the small stripers should be all over the place at night. We have had nights out there this time of year when we would catch a striper on almost every cast and would have contest to see who could not catch a striper. You can still get skunked but your odd's go way up at the CBBT.

[Stillrunning]

Originally Posted by Stillrunning

If the fish are not hitting at the HRBT you guys need to head to the MMBT and try it there. The WNB is very hit ans miss and if you catch anything its more luck than anything. I'm guessing you left from Portsmouth City Park if you hit the WNB. You can also try casting into the lighted areas around some of the loading docks around that area. Chunking works great around the bend at the MMBT but you need a good amount of menhaden to attract the fish. The biggest problem this time of year is that there is still alot of small fish that the stripers feed on and its hard to get them to hit your baits. Thats why chunking works this time of year.

Evilgli

Like CSVENCER your better of hitting the MMBT rather then the JRB. The JRB does hold strippers but its usually not very productive. The best bet this time of year is towing down to Va. Beach and hitting the CBBT as the small stripers should be all over the place at night. We have had nights out there this time of year when we would catch a striper on almost every cast and would have contest to see who could not catch a striper. You can still get skunked but your odd's go way up at the CBBT.

As a follow up I see that people are starting to catch some bigger stripers eeling around the high rise of the CBBT and some citations were caught this past weekend. It should only get better in the next couple of weeks and provide some great fishing. I caught my biggest striper last year while eeling at the high rise and pulled in a 43" striper. Also people caught some nice striper chunking this weekend at the MMBT at the bend.

[csvencer]

Still-

Sounds like eels and chunking are the big winners lately. I haven't heard anything about artificials lately. So I think I am off to get some menhaden if I go out this weekend. If I go out I will give you a call, we need to hook up, this is getting ridiculous!

-Svence

[evilgli]

going to try after work tonight for a couple of hours or so. think i will try chunking at the mmbt and see how i do, considering this will be my first time doing this.

[Stillrunning]

Originally Posted by evilgli

going to try after work tonight for a couple of hours or so. think i will try chunking at the mmbt and see how i do, considering this will be my first time doing this.

I wanted to go tonight but I have a meeting. Get plenty of menhaden and get a good slick running by chuncking them up and tossing them out. I like to toss them off the front of the boat so they sink down under the boat as they float back toward the bridge. I also like to have a bag of chopped up menhade sunk down beside the boat to cover more depth. Then try to cover several depths by using more weight to get some down and some higher up. I just use a a chunk of menhaden on a hook and different size weights. The bend in the bridge seems to produce best but don't feel limited to that area. Some others have had good luck over the tube in around 25' of water. We also try just riding down the bridge looking for stripers hitting the top around the pilings then we anchor up. Good luck if you get out. What ramp are you going to put out at tonight?

[garagenc]

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[evilgli]

Originally Posted by Stillrunning

I wanted to go tonight but I have a meeting. Get plenty of menhaden and get a good slick running by chuncking them up and tossing them out. I like to toss them off the front of the boat so they sink down under the boat as they float back toward the bridge. I also like to have a bag of chopped up menhade sunk down beside the boat to cover more depth. Then try to cover several depths by using more weight to get some down and some higher up. I just use a a chunk of menhaden on a hook and different size weights. The bend in the bridge seems to produce best but don't feel limited to that area. Some others have had good luck over the tube in around 25' of water. We also try just riding down the bridge looking for stripers hitting the top around the pilings then we anchor up. Good luck if you get out. What ramp are you going to put out at tonight?

went out of huntington park tonight at 7, hit the mmbt with eels over the tube and had a stretch 25 out. nothing for more than a hour. picked up and wwnt over to the hrbt. got in between all the boats at about the 3rd light pole back. lots of birds in this area. put eels out, casted to pilings with jigs and had the stretch 25 out. fished for about a hour and a half. not one hit. didn't see anybody else catching anything either. so packed it up and ran back, because i got to work and need some sleep.

so skunked again. man this sucks. so if any of you guys that are close to me and know where to go and what to do, i could use some help. so maybe i can talk you experts into going out with me or maybe you guys would let me and my father ride with you and get some experience. hope somebody did better than me tonight if they got out.