EP 538 Experiencing the Striped Bass Run with Justin Ritchey

Salt Strong Fishing

Joe Simonds

Bassfishing, Wilderness, Saltstrong, Sports, Fishingtips, Fishing, Fishstrong, Redfish, Saltwaterfishing

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever truly experienced the amazing fishing during the spring striped bass run in the mid-Atlantic?

In this episode Salt Strong's head of tackle talks through his recent trip targeting spring migration bass in the Connecticut River, Long Island Sound, and Block Island.

We'll hear Justin's perspective on this species and what he learned on the trip.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Salt Strong Podcast. Disrupting Fishing Entertainment as you know it. Prepare
0:11.4	to laugh. Prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way. And
0:16.9	on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing. Here's your host, Joe
0:22.1	Simon's, Like Diamonds. Hello and welcome to the Salt Strong Podcast. My name is Rich
0:28.8	Natalia. I'm hosting this show today and it's going to be a cool one. I am joined by Salt
0:33.9	Strong, ex fishing coach, head of tackle, Justin Richie. And we are going to talk about his
0:39.2	trip north to get away from this other species and target one of the biggest targets in the
0:45.6	mid-Atlantic and Northeast striped bass. So with that, Justin, welcome to the podcast. Good to
0:51.2	talk to you. What's going on, my man? How are you? I'm, I'm jealous. I saw your video and I
0:58.4	target these striped bass, but, but you decided as a Southern bass fisherman, you were going to come
1:04.4	up and partake of the absolute mayhem and fun of the striped bass spring migration up in the
1:12.9	mid-Atlantic. So I can't wait to hear all about that. Dude, it's, it's underrated. You know,
1:19.7	there's a lot of, there's a lot, I mean admit it, Rich, like I'm sure a big part of you wants to
1:24.4	come down and target giant 40-inch snook and big bull redfish and a hundred pound tarp and
1:30.2	and that's cool. I've, I've been fortunate enough to have that most of my life here in Florida.
1:35.7	I've been targeting those species for 15, 20 years and you know, I never really stop to think what
1:44.1	goes into targeting giant striped bass. Like I see that they're huge. I know you can get them on
1:48.6	lures and and topwater and all kinds of stuff and and it always looked cool, but I have a close friend
1:54.2	of mine that grew up in New Haven, Connecticut and he plans an annual trip back for a couple days
2:02.2	every summer or really like let's say you got your spring and our summer and our our our seasons
2:07.2	are a little different north and south, but he planned to trip up and he invited me said come,
2:12.1	come hang out with me. Crash with the buddy we're going to go and and poke around Long Island
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