very strong smell, fish can't resist it....some fish like sweet like vanilla, some like strong overwhelming scent like garlic, or fish oil......can't hurt to combine them and increase target range. Stripers love clams naturally and Eels also.....when I use live baitfish, I find they work MUCH better if you don't touch them.....Stripers and other predators are very particular about the slime coat, which is removed by handling baitfish......when I unhook a baitfish I have caught I hold it over the bucket, grasp the hook upside-down w/ pliers and shake it a bit until it unhooks itself into the bucket, perfect untouched slime coat....when you hook them for fishing again, hook them while they are still in the water of your bucket to preserve slimecoat.....Eels are extra-slimy......and remember, anything that catches Stripers will catch Bluefish (they also school together constantly) and most likely sharks and other predators.....flounder, drum, etc:0 im gonna try this! ive been fishing for blackfish recently but sparingly i'll use bunker for stripers. this sounds awesome! but why vanilla extract?
Black Sea Bass = Blackfish? You use them as bait for Stripers?
TBH, you'd probably be better off casting and slow retrieving LIVE American Eels for Striper. Can't let them sit or they go into the rocks and snag you.....gotta pretend it's a finesse bait. Whole Squid is my all-time favorite for Stripers though....2 hooks for the rig tied about 6" apart, top a 5/0 to 8/0 hooked through the point of the top of the squid, and the bottom is a large Double-hook (snags less than Treble-hooks), to keep the tentacles in tact an look natural to the fish. Two of those on a Striper/Bluefish rig, w/ a Pyramid or Sattelite weight at the bottom of the drop, and floats near the single hooks to keep the Squids floating in the current above the bottom to avoid crabs
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