The stripers have changed

[ecduzitgood]

The smaller fish look the same it's when you get around 36ish and above that seem to be lean with huge heads that seem out of proportion. I haven't been fortunate enough this year to get above 32ish yet, in fact the season thus far has been the worst that I have ever had. The last 3 trips down to fish the ditch I got skunked, 2 trips without even a hit and I started using live eels again after my plugging and jigging were not producing like usual. And although I didn't have a line in the water the whole time, the last 3 trips totaled 46hrs with 2 hits and no fish. And to add insult to injury one trip I couldn't find my eel bag and saw my old one which unbeknownst to me had a hole in it and 10 out of 18 eels got out.