I have never caught a tog until yesterday. While boat fishing:huh:, figuring i would killem with some eels i tried drifting an eel theu watch hill reef. Not a lot of fish were caught until i pulled a 5 pound tog up. 14" eel with a 5/0 gami. Never thought it would be a tog coming up. And i didnt catch a striper all day, so maybe boat fishing isnt as easy as i though, conditions were way to nice for fishing but i figured it couldnt be that hard.

Caught one on a small piece of pogie trying to get scup to live-line 18" or so (released)
Hear of em on T&W and bucktail jigs as well.
they are aggressive when they are hungry!

Anything's possible.Caught a fluke on a 3.5oz pencil 2yrs ago.

Got a friend who used to catch them pretty often blind casting for bass with a flyrod, a sinking line, and a long (6-8") slender clouser type fly. He used a pretty fast strip retrieve and they obviously must have chased it down. I used to try to target them sight casting with a fly rod in the spring when they're grubbing on sand flats. Would see a lot of them but never caught one. Sometimes I would find medium sized bass following right on their tails scrounging up whatever they stirred up. You can also get them pretty regularly vertical jigging with small metal (particularly under peanut bunker schools).

got an 8 pound fluke trolling a magnum bomber in front of mount view in north kingstown

I got an 8lb tog on a slug two years ago. It looked like it swallowed a softball, my thought full of eggs. Never try to make rule in fishing, there is always a story to contradict it.:kewl:

6 " sluggo's on a 1/2 oz jig head at Beavertail in the spring. Many, many 5-6 lb togs would inhale that thing. Lots of fun and surprising

Years ago I would catch a bunch of small one ,s f/fishing for schoolies with shrimp flies >><><<><

Never try to make rule in fishing, there is always a story to contradict it.:kewl:



How true !!

Lobster on an eel.
He was well attached to the eel.

I've got some big fluke trolling tubes from a 12" skiff at the Block. Also caught them on big eels. My biggest black sea bass came on an eel too. All intended for stripers. Best I've seen was my uncle getting an 8lb fluke on a Spoffords Needlefish intended for bonito. I actually enjoy the occasional surprise.

I took DZ to my favorite spring UDL to sight fish for blackfish - and you could see them actively mating in he early AM :humpty:

My primary bait was always sandworms so I suppose an eel might seem like a larger version to them.

Caught one on a small piece of pogie trying to get scup to live-line 18" or so (released)
Hear of em on T&W and bucktail jigs as well.
they are aggressive when they are hungry!

Haven't experience a frienzied tog blitz yet - but I'm ready...