Monday, February 18, 2013

Just what is "The Cabbage Patch"?

So, I went to cabbage patch and found that it consists of 36 double "T" beams that are 60 feet long.  These are stacked to for a waffle structure 2 beams  high.  then, there are 28 concrete slabs and 187 tons of concrete sinkers along with 1000 tons  of concrete block.  The location is given as 37-10.344 N and 76-03.006W.  Hmmm, to this novice, what does this mean.  Can I locate the location with my Lowrance GPS?

It's my opinion that ya can drift the area around beach channel buoy 18 to above the Northern concrete ship at Kiptopeke and boat stripers at about the same frequency as if ya travel long distances.  Yet, the area right off Cape Charles (Plantation Light) can be pretty productive.  The water column can range from 30 to 110 feet.  Personally, I find the area just beyond the top of the gut (trench) groin, or what ever it is called is productive and holds big stripers.  Sort of like the current moving mostly South washes feed up the slope to the fish waiting at the top for an easy meal?

Even small humps on the flat can serve as a hiding place for big stripers and also push bait up toward the suface as the water passes over the hump.  Really hard to understand what's going on as the tide passes from high to low that is normally associated with a direction.  But near the mouth of the Cheasapeake, it seems the current is always very strong and the tide .  .  .?  Yet, the stripers don't feed much if the tide isn't moving (full high and low).  Got to be moving!  Also, while fish are caught all day long (usually infrequent take downs), the early morning and late afternoon seem to be great.

Some fishermen do great during the day near buoy 36 and the yellow can.  The best depth seems to be about 45-50 feet of water and the stripers can be caught throughout the water column.  Yet, I find this area to be filled with schoolie/male stripers that are likely about 15 pounds.  They aren't large enough to take a large eel and there are frequent break offs that are typical of a small striper clamped on an eel.  Ha, ha, I'd rather the fish be much larger and has the capability of inhaling the largest eel.  Yep, my goal is to catch the largest striper I can.  I don't fish for numbers.  Rather a smaller striper ignore my huge eel presentation.

Oh, what's all this got to do with Chesapeake Bay structure similar or identical to "The Cabbage Patch"?

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