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Going Finesse in Skinny Water

 | By Seamus on 5/11/2025 12:30:00 PM | Views (4)

 
The Albie Snax mounted on a BKK
Titan Rider hook was a hot
lure last evening.

My son Jon and I went out last evening in an off the beaten path location in Narragansett Bay.  This was a quiet skinny water cove where we have had success in the past with decent sized stripers. This is one of those spots where big plugs have little to no chance of scoring. If you want to catch in places like these where stripers are generally super fussy, you need to take a finesse approach.

We immediately snapped on weightless plastics.  Jon used a 7 1/2 inch white Slug-go while I put on a white Albie Snax.  These were weightless offerings with just a BKK Titan Rider hook up front. I've written a lot about how to fish these....slow retrieve, twitches of the rod tip, stop every once in a while.  I've also written that you will get a lot of hits on the stop. That happened last evening many times.

Jon and I came away with five decent fish landed, and they were all slots.  We also had a lot of other hits and swirls, a sure sign that good numbers of stripers were around. I would bet that if we were using large plugs here, we would have gotten nothing.


A finesse approach works well in quiet, skinny
water spots. It got us many good size fish
last evening.


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Catch Information

Species:
Little Tunny
Little Tunny

Roach
Roach

Striped Bass
Striped Bass

This Fishing Report was submitted on 5/11/2025 12:30:00 PM by Seamus and last updated on 5/17/2025 4:42:25 AM.


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2000 Sailfish Point
Manteo, NC US

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