what would use from the shore or boat? I'm talking what you'd use on the end of your line.
me..
1 ...it'll have to be live bait.
2....jig's
3...plug's
in just that order from both boat and beach.

boat/live herring

Only Cows?

1) Live bait=Eels
2) Fresh Chunks/Chumming,squid,etc..
3)All inlets with 3 or 4 ounce bucktails

WELL! by today's standard's I guess most would consider a cow anything beyond a 30lber.

WELL! by today's standard's I guess most would consider a cow anything beyond a 30lber.

I'm talking thru my hat.. personal best is 33# but if i'd have to guess, I'd say #1, probably a herring, or bunker, let him swim near an inlet...

will the 50 pound club guys give us a clue?? :hee:

1. Live bait
2. Live bait
3. Live bait

1. Live bait (1.Herrin 2. Macks. 3. EELS)
2. EELS Live
3. EELS Dead

I have fished live herring alot, staying up all night to get them, then babysitting them and running to the shore, its alot of work for a shore guy, I have to admit one fact with all the fish I have caught, herring never produced a bass for me over 25lbs and most were in the 12 to 15lb range yes, there was constant action but no big ones, it always seemed to me that the smaller fish would get to the herring first, in a boat I am sure its different but from shore I would stay with the eels at night. The biggest bass I ever caught on a herring was a 32lb fish that took a fresh Chunk! You can do just as well sometimes with a Blue and white Danny Swimmer, especially at daybreak. So for me it was loads of work for bassically the same fish I caught at night on the eels or Dannys.

1. eels
2. jig
3. plugs

EELS,
we had a 45lber suck down mine and a buddy's :)
We thought we both had a monster on,lol just him pulling and me pulling .
On a boat


Hey CS ><> ><> ><> ><> ><>

Boat - Tube and worm, Bunker Spoon, Live eels
Beach-Live eels, Sand eels, Plugs

eels
Livelining Hickory shad
Livelining Bunker

If targeting cows only ....for me it would be.........EELS :hihi:

Boat:
Live herring, shad, pogies, eels
eels
poppers if theyre thick
and eels

For real fishing:
Live eels, herring (too much work) or shad (lil easier, but not very resilient)
plugs
chunk bait

*thats strictly for COWS 50's or better*

For fun: Poppers hands down! I love it when they sneak up behind the popper and CRUSH IT

late night eels :lasso:

1. eels
2. live finfish (Pogey, Mackeral,Pollock)
3. chunk of above

Live eels
Jigs
or large plugs

large net :D

eels

or if i found myself out chuncking , bunker heads

Surf: Eels

Boat: Bunker, Shad, Herring, Scup, Seabass, Eels

no herring/most runs are closed near by. :(
scup have to b 10 1/2 by law :(
no pogies,,haven't seen one in 3 years :(
eel's maybe on the way out soon :(

that leave's lead :hee: and plug's or follow the offshore dragger's around and pick up their discard's.[bass]

what about LOBSTERS

too yummy to eat....nabor dropped 5 off 2 nite's ago...burp!

If your talking stricly Striper fishing from boat

1st Live bait: (eels, herring, pogie, etc)
2nd Trolling Tube & worm or plastic worm
3rd Plugs

To catch a cow I would use grass.
A udderlerly ridiculous question.

Surf...eels, pencils/needles in a building surf with approaching low, (they got the feed bag on I think in that condition especially.)

herring chunks off bold structure, but gotta float it down to them.

Fall run, Storms to get down through the blues and smaller bass (hopefully) to the big girls......

What do I know,...I suck this season...

EELS, wire line jigs.

My best fish have all been caught in your area and always on eels. A few ok ones on wire also.

Its Kinda area related u guys tro eels cause u ain't seen a live pogie in yrs.IMHO there is no better big fish bait than live or fresh dead pogie's/ bunker.I'm no chunker though there is a great big fish bite that happens down here on the heads right around this time o yr.
Middle of the day bright sun blue sky's they will pound a bunker.try that wit a eel. It was stated in this thread how her's are good for a bite but not much on big fish.i aslo believe that to be true.i think its part due to the fact that herring aren't as strong a swimmer as the bunker.tough to get em out in more of a big fish type water.now bunker will plow thru the big waves no problem.I know someone who got a 59 on a herring. there are no absolute's in fishing..its certainly a different type of fishin.where as wit eels u can whip em out in the nasty stuff an fish em like a lure.A live bait u gotta swim em out where they don't wanna go.

NIB, the hacienda is open for the season now, and Melissa said to tell you you are welcome to come anytime for some grub.

Some day the big pogies will return up here, but as soon as they do, I am afraid they will get fished out right away just like what goes on in RI :(

I'm with you this season Nightfighter, can't get a keeper from shore yet :( , got some from a boat though. I suck. Too much work but I'm not complaining, the time for fishing will come, but once a week or so doesn't make it easy to consistently find fish.

Pogy heads

Eels are a great cow bait, but they won't cull the cows. I've had 16" bass take a 20" eel more times than I'd care to remember. Even shorts can't resist a wriggling eel.

Down here, the best way to cull a cow is to go to a shop that sells fresh bunker, just netted within an hour or so, and choose some about 12 or 14" long. Then head for the beach, find some good structure, cut that bunker in half, hook the head half, dripping blood, guts and slime, on a strong 8/0 hook, and using a rod that can throw 8 oz and half a pogie, cast it to the structure, and hold the rod in your hands. Every few minutes, move the bait a tad. That's fishing, not dead-sticking. It's a great method for when you only want to target 20-40 pound bass. And of course, the key to it is absolutely fresh bait.

9" Storms and Tsunamis are another good cow method, but you just can't risk them at 7 clams a pop when blues are around.

Slip.Thanks for the invite will be up for sure.workin in a shore community i swore off yrs ago got alot of work to get done by 6-30 then i'm gone.I been in the same boat only one 16 lber this yr can't get anything wired all my usual spots are broke.I broke down a bought a boat a 19 ft. steury wit a 115 yamaha.Its a nice hull for a little boat.i plan on terrorizin surf fisherman.I'll only be out the cape for a visit as the ditch is 30 miles south.I like rockfish. my first guess would be around the 4 th of july I know thats a bad time but i like the tides an it worked for me before.