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Hudson River
- Great info at stripers247
- To pinpoint hot spots, get a tidal chart and current chart, such as those available at Haverstraw Marina (914-429-0404)
- Look for structure near moving water. Some spots produce better on incoming tides, others on outgoing.
- Fishing tails off on slack tides. Low-light conditions are best.
- Good midriver shorecasting areas include Hudson Highlands State Park launch in Coxsackie.
- However, if you are shorebound, fish piers, bulkheads, and rocky areas. At night, cast beyond pier-light glare.
- Target areas as shallow as 5 feet on rising tides. Boaters can still-fish or troll. Trollers can flatline or downrig.
- Another advantage to boating is access to "suckholes" behind east bank rail lines. These are tidal basins isolated from the river by the railbed at low tides. During high tide, baitfish and stripers move into these lagoons. Fish these water, as fish drain from them on dropping tides.
- Best baits vary. Early, bloodworms and sandworms, threaded and dangling on hooks, are effective. Later in spring, live eels hooked through the lip and swum freely do better. Fish worms and eels on incoming tides along the bottom. Whole or chunk herring and bunker also catch stripers. Many drift whole or 2-inch chunks of herring on 2-ounce slip sinkers with a swivel, a 3-foot leader, and a 5/0 hook. Lures, such as troll plugs like large Rapalas, are good, especially later in spring. Other good lures include Yo-Zuris, Striper Striper Swipers, and Bombers. Early on, small bucktails often work.
- Spawners are usually in Kingston and Catskill by mid-April, and by month's end, they've arrived at the tip of the Hudson's 152-mile tidal estuary, Federal Dam in Troy. In May, the run peaks riverwide, with anglers catching inbound fish and postspawners from Manhattan's Battery Park to Albany. Now: Name one "normal spring." Betcha can't do it. What: Annual Hudson River striped bass spawn run begins as early as late March, ends as late as mid-June. Usually peaks in May. Anglers occasionally can catch fish over 40 pounds with 25-pounders common.
- How do I...
- How to catch shad
- Shad dart
- Use 9' noodle rods very light action rods because their mouths are extremely delicate. The fish would hit out of reaction, not feeding. The color of the dart was usually white with red hair and a light wire gold hook.
- "Bug eye shad darts seemed to work the best for me. Keep switching colors until you find the one that works the best. I have found that one day to the next the Shad like different colors."
- "Put a ½ to ¾ oz sliding sinker to a barrel swivel then a three-foot leader to the shad dart."
- "Make your cast straight out from the bank and let it drift for a few seconds then start to retrieve slowly. Keep changing your reel retrieve speed until you start to get some hits. Shad travel at different depths, but most of the time they are close to the bottom. Once you find the right reel retrieve and depth, you can catch one after another."
- Shad Darts dare and provoke fish to strike. The bucktail design of the tail is tapered from the front to the back to create lifelike movement. ...try several casts using a variety of jigging or hopping action.
- tie on a single dart (i stick with 1/8oz most of the time (never bigger) and sometimes throw 1/16 oz.) ...
- cast it out and let it sink towards the bottom, then reel slowly while either sweeping or jerking (darting) your rod the opposite direction of the current
when it tightens up just sweep the rod don't set it like you're bass fishing
make sure your drag is set lightly or you'll break off
- How to catch herring (9 inches)
- How to bait stripers
- Whole 9" herring on a circle hook, with a swivel 3 feet or so up the line
- You might want sliding weight to sink it
- Chunk bait
- You might want colorful sliding float to keep it off the bottom. (circle hook, sliding float, swivel, sliding weight)
- Circle hook - just reel, do not set the hook
- ebb tide (outgoing) has produced better results than at any other time on the Hudson, with flood tide (incoming) being the next best time.
- How to catch shad
- How to anchor the canoe in the hudson
- Brush anchor, 20 ft. Log chain (better try it in lakes and small streams first!)
- Catch Stripers, Shad
- From shore
- Canoe down from Troy Dam
- Strategies:
- "The Rennsalaer Launch looked empty at 9am when we cruised by it."
- "I saw 4 caught on crankbaits very close to the bank around hight tide today"
- "frozen cut-bait weekend"
- "I use 3 oz jigs with a trailer 95% of the time and that is what I caught them on last night. If I'm in a boat its big crankbaits and 9-10 inch swimbaits."
- "Good trailers are anything that puts out some thump/vibraton in the water. The trailers also help add bulk to jigs. You can buy 6-8 inch Berkley Power Grub tails, which are the most popular, from Conroy's and on-line."
- "I have my best days down at the damn when the flow is heavy (lol) and the sky is slightly overcast. Things should be great at high tide from shore later this week."
- "I use 3 oz. jigs and even with a single hook it happened all the time." (regarding trying to catch stripers, but accidentally snagging sturgeon)
- http://www.awesomeguideservice.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=53&func=view&catid=4&id=266
- "a lot of people down at troy launch when we poled in got out and got a few herring pretty quick and got started no to much in the start a couple of misses and a few cats then we left for another spot and when we got bait down their we got some we caught two each both on half a herring 8lbs, 10, 13, and a awesome 21 lber so sweet. George was reely happy to get to reel um in...."
- "didnt have any luck jigging the herring but still was marking small schools around a little clearity will help, but we did have some luck a different kind of bait we both got a striper nothing to big a 8 and 6 but still pretty cool it was dereks first striper ever that was awesome the cats were on it to couple nice ones 8 to 10"
- "hoping the herring will begin to hit the jigs soon"
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