what put most of your fish in the boat or on shore

3/0 VMC trebble !

a-salt bomber or loaded redfin. to close to call.

a red cedar howdy style spook in yellow over white caught not the largest but the most.

my Rolex and Porsche Keys

Rapala Skitter Walk

Needlefish and spooks that I make,,,

my Rolex and Porsche Keys

I sure hope you don't depend on that watch for precise time,,,,,:humpty:

From the boat it was either a sluggo or wire line jigging with a white smiling bill and a red trailer. From shore - maybe sluggo or a guppy pencil in parrot. Fairly boring response but they get the job done.

Depending on where I was fishing....my Canal Pencil was a champion in the Ditch! On the beaches the "Prey" Swimmer and 3 oz. Danny were bass magnets!:kewl:

Early season a Salty danny in Olive....late season one of my Canal pencils.

But either way there were not a lot of fish caught by Moi this season

BeachMaster Danny was my best lure this year.

http://www.finksbaitandtackle.com/catalog/snag%20hook.jpg

Bomber Long A Magnum's have always been very good to me. :)

Used the SS Darter more than ever before and it did the job at night. Fish always seemed to want it.

Daytime was good for the Afterhours Senior.

Mostly pencil poppers and rubber.

A pencil, at daybreak, was the best producer for me this year.:kewl:

BigFish Larry's bigger pencil & canal pencils did the most numbers and produced the largest ....beat out the bomber this year

Cocahoe in april til mid may then rigged eels up until last night. Start day fishing now with the cocahoe again til the end.

powder blue/white /glow tail Hab's tallywacker ... or Black/neon green tattoo diving swimmer.

Cocahoe in april til mid may then rigged eels up until last night. Start day fishing now with the cocahoe again til the end.

IMO it is the best schoolie lure there is. I have also caught some bigger fish on them but not many.

rwilhelm, The cocahoe is THE best I've ever used for schoolies. I hear it works on bigger fish and that the queen size is good also. The 3" pearl is something else though! It is the only thing I use in the spring.

qnty : blurple a-salt

qlty: black / gold bigwater jointed diver

Yellow SS darter had most of my keepers.

K-E-V-I-N- That wild color on the Tattoo - Someone gave me a small surface swimmer in that color and I laughed at it as I put it in my bag. About two weeks later I was fishing and catching pretty good when I tried to find something in my bag that they wouldn"T HIT. Well I put on this tattoo danny with the wild color combo and continued to hawk the fish until the hooks were mangled. I went home , changed the hooks and have been catching fish on it all season. One night I had a 28 pounder on it right at dark before switching to eels.

Crippled Herring and Sluggo's in the "Ditch"

Spring White Smack It popper.

Fall large Bernzy Surf Howdy in copper w/ black around the eyes.

blue head spook, that Biteme and PNG helped me make

Metalic black 6" needle=maker? someone from the site, no clue who anymore

BigFish 3oz Danny in Bunker wrapped up my season nicely-largest and most quality fish

1. Live eel
2. Rigged eel
3. Redfin

rwilhelm, The cocahoe is THE best I've ever used for schoolies. I hear it works on bigger fish and that the queen size is good also. The 3" pearl is something else though! It is the only thing I use in the spring.

Yup pearl is my favorite color too. About 8 years ago I was fishing Middlebridge and not catching anything. An old timer came up to me as I was leaving and handed me a cocahoe. He said try these next time you go. Well sure enough I did and I caught fish after fish. Really nice guy named Ernie, he was the one that introduced the cocahoe to south county. I think he is still fishing, I believe I saw him in Sept fishing the wall in gansett.

1. Live eel :conf:
2. Rigged eel :conf:
3. Redfin

He asked which lures, you heathen...:behead:

1. XXXX XXX
2. Rigged eel
3. Redfin

Better"? :fishslap:

Quantity: White Salty Danny

Quality: EELS

For me:

Honestly it was my slowest year in almost two decades. But spooks and canal pencils did the trick mostly for me this year.

But the lures that fared the best for me this season were spooks - and two particulars ones at that, these always seemed to raise the fish best for me:

The AH fat boy slider in yellow and green - biggest fish of the season and some other decent ones caught ... if you don't have the fat boy slider from AH and enjoy spooks, get them, they work great.

Also, a spook made buy a guy in my club ... it's called the Skunky Joe ... the color that provided for me most consistenly whether I was on Cutty, the North Shore, Rhody or Fisher's Island was yellow and chartreuse green.

If any of you get to the Plum Island Surfcasters fund raiser this year, look for the Skunky Joe plugs on the raffle table - he makes a few for the club's fundraiser and they work really well ... fished really responded well to it for me this season.

lure- Blurple BM danny

most productive- EELS

Day: Surface cruisers
Night: Eelskinned Atom Junior or Tattoo 2oz swimmer

The same old reliable lure as in the past 5 years:
Black or "eel colored" 9" Slug-go on a 1oz. jig.
Although this year was interrupted by a nagging knee problem, I was able (and am still able) to finish out the season.

On a side note, I tried a different line this year. It's a relatively inexpensive braid that I picked up at a Foxborough sporting goods store (;) called P-Line. It's held up fantastically, and hasn't failed me yet. After trying (and regretting it) Spiderwire, as well as Fireline, I graduated to PowerPro, but it can be a little cost prohibitive when spooling multiple reels. The P-Line braid has the best of both worlds:
reliable, durable braid that doesn't breakdown and unwind like the forementioned ones, and is affordable. I'm sure there are quite a few brands that are equal, if not better in quality, but for the type of fishing I'm engaged in, it has been a roaring success.

One of my own,a red head danny. In terms of both quality and quantity.

yellow/white needle fish on the Cape,and nylon hair bucktails on LI

9inch Rigged and weighted sluggos
Jeffery James Custom Plugs- Junior Swimmer

Better"? :fishslap:


No, rigged eels are the same as yo-yo'd pogies.... they're bait, not plugs.......:fishslap:....:fishslap:....:fishslap: ....:fishslap:....:fishslap:


Redfin? OK. :btu:

Tsunamis

White gibbs pencil

Yozuri Mag Darter

Tsunamis

White gibbs pencil

AHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhh! THAAAAAT explains why winter parkas are selling so fast in Hell these days.

bigfish danny...produced the most fun caught fish this year...

rm 2 oz swimmer white with pink and large doc

2nd the mag darter

Quantity of fish is was probably a tie with old AH bone colored spook and a PtJude nautilus. Size it was an AH 10"white needle. Also, a yellowish danny from MikeCC killed em in the canal.

even tie between a BM atom Jr. in yellow and one of my Danny plugs in yellow.

EELS... But I tend to think that whatever lure you have in the water most often is your top producer... I think that if you caught a bass on "X" lure that if you dragged "Y" in front of it the fish would also strike... I think the fish was caught because it was THERE, and it wouldnt care if it was a needle or a redfin... in many cases at least. But how the heck should I know, or quite honestly ANY of us really know... WE"RE NOT BASS!!!

No, rigged eels are the same as yo-yo'd pogies.... they're bait, not plugs.......

Redfin? OK. :btu:


au contraire, mon frere!!

i will respectfully differ,,,,,,,,,,,,

riggies are the best of both BAIT

AND LURE,

a sort of hybrid since

it is bait that can be fished like a lure, or
is it a lure that can be fished like bait???
:bl: :bl: :bl: :bl:

same-same for an eeelskin plug, ne c'est pas?
once you affix hooks to it and "rig" it like a Sluggo
you've made it a lure, imho, and a MOST effective one at that!!
:kewl: :kewl: :kewl:

I always do well with bucktail jigs, 4 ounce mr.pogie usually
I did well on a number of other lures = my own pencil, jigman spook, howdy, leadhead and bubblegum sluggo, ledgerunner rubba. I hope I get to fish more next year.

sluggos

Pencils, bucktails, and Bill Hurley's Striper Magnet-all sizes

Choopy needlefish in eel, worked night and day. Some how this plug will find bass in the middle of blues during early morning and evening blitz.

Redfins & A-Salt Bombers.
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yellow Tattoo's deep diver.

eels and live bunker

bomber

My knockoff of a Musso Surface swimmer.

BigFish Pencil.

My knockoff of a Musso Surface swimmer.

Ditto

Well, this thread proves bass will eat just about anything that moves in the water.

7" Bone Hogy. I caught more fish than ever this year and 90% of them were on the Hogy rigged texas style.

big shads
secret 3oz shad
mack cordell pencil

I have done better with my rubber(got stryper) than anything else all season. At the start of the season I got rid of every other soft plastic on my boat, other than my own and have had my best season to date. From top water bass, tuna, jigging on light tackle in the rip, jigging for tuna, albies.

CC Pencil Popper 5"

Live Bunker - not much beats it :D

7" Bone Hogy. I caught more fish than ever this year and 90% of them were on the Hogy rigged texas style.

Those are going in my bag for next year and will be used in a very particular place. I ran into one of the OTW editors while fishing one morning and he was doing a job on the fish:fishin: with the same rig you mention. I think he had the 9" version though.

So Far :
BM Atom Jr - PINK
Surf Asylum HammerHead - Yellow
Yo-Zuri MagDarter - Ghost now Clear

Still plenty of time and opportunities down here in Jersey for that to change >
Will Update in December.....

Those are going in my bag for next year and will be used in a very particular place. I ran into one of the OTW editors while fishing one morning and he was doing a job on the fish:fishin: with the same rig you mention. I think he had the 9" version though.

He was probably using either the 10" original or the 10" double wide. The double wides cast like crazy and have a huge profile for larger fish. The double wide is my second favorite Hogy. Good Luck

redneck 2oz pencil

Canaaaaal Speciaaaaal in the mornings
salty's needles at night and from the yak

sluggos

I have done better with my rubber(got stryper) than anything else all season. At the start of the season I got rid of every other soft plastic on my boat, other than my own and have had my best season to date. From top water bass, tuna, jigging on light tackle in the rip, jigging for tuna, albies.

Actually I really didn't consider rubber, for some reason I thought it was a "plug" post. Alan's rubber is unbelievable. It killed in the rips off Chatham, in Boston Harbor and was deadly this October for me in the canal. I have witnesses where it just plain crushed other rubber. The bass get pissed off at the mere sight of it. I would seriously consider picking some of his stuff up for a test run at your favorite spot. I don't do as much tuna fishing as a few guys on here, but I know the tuna love it too.

Pt.Jude Po-Jee,Salty's 1.25oz olive/white popper.

BF's pencil I won at the Hab's raffle gets an honorable mention.Just didn't get much time to fish it.

I wish I had more time to fish this year but Dad was obviously a priority.

Superstrike Needlefish

Wonderbread bomber(thanks Milo) - when nothing else worked
2 oz. Choopy needle - killed with this
SS Lttleneck - amazing in the canal, let it sink a bit, the twitch.

rigged sluggos

Salty's needles, 2.5 oz. 1 oz. & the 1.5 tuna tamer Parrot & electric blue

yellow bm danny

black 9 inch sluggo

Alan's rubber is unbelievable.

Any photos of this?

i like sluggos

here is a pic of the rubber from monday

Great fish Alan. Congrats. I got a few of those things from when you first started making them. I think I will hold on to them so I can sell them on e-bay when you get real famous.

Did well on needles but the cake goes to the 9" Slug-go in white,black, hot pink rigged weightless.

White leadhead/skirt/curlytail.
End of season - loved Afterhours 2oz metal lip swimmers when the large bunker were around.

for me it was my humpback pencil and 10" needle.

here is a pic of the rubber from monday

That thing looks massive...12"?
How does it cost compared to sluggos?

It is 9". It is a new one that I have been playing with a longer tail. Walks/ wags a little wider and works even better on a jig. There is another one that is even bigger (11").

http://www.finksbaitandtackle.com/catalog/snag%20hook.jpg


LOL!

That and a #6/0 Gamakatsu Octopus hook.

jig head with soft plastic body

from the boat, sluggo's, atomizers, and chug bugs. from the surf 3oz. dannys

"Canaaaaal Speciaaaaal in the mornings"

Was wating for that response.