Slashing Stripers???

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Very common practice with saltwater fisherman, my friend from Florida would do the same thing here when we caught stripers. It does work the filet's will be much more white.
It works with catfish also.

[HURRICANEBOB]

Very common practice with saltwater fisherman, It does work the filet's will be much more white.
It works with catfish also.

We used to do this while fishing for Stripers in the Cheaspeake Bay. Works in salt or fresh water, but I always felt it worked better in salt water, as salt water tends to leach out the blood.

The down side of doing this in salt water, in the Chesapeake Bay, was that I had some pretty nice Stripers bit in half when the sharks got a scent of the blood trail I was creating. Not a problem around here.......ah.....I think......well maybe like really big gar and stuff...........or like a really big flat head............or like that 95 lb Blue that other guy wrote about on the board.

Oh........gross.......what if ya did this in the Ohio, and a whole bunch of like lamprey eels like came up and attached to your Striper.....ooooooohhhhh. Or just normal river eels decided to follow the blood and start chulmping on your striper........ooooooohhhhhhhh grrrooooosssssssss.