John, If I lived near ya I'd be over every day helping myself to your plugs,, er, uh, I mean helping you make plugs:laughs: .

snook
 

very good fighter....
that fish was caught 2 years ago on memorial day morning....
woke up at 6 and thought i was too late for prime time cause the sun was already peeking out....decided to go any way....

made about 6 casts on the south side of an undisclosed structure...nothin...walked to the north side....first cast bang....he started for the structure and fortunately by mistake my drag was set too tight...he turned...he decided to go north and started ripping line out after i losend it slightly...i started running up the beach to make sure that there wasnt to much tension on the line...and he was ripping line out like crazy so i kept running, running, running....when i finally got him in i was about a quarter mile away from where i hooked up....


the meat is pure white if you slit there throats before they die if not its slightly darker...taste just like grouper....the only thing finer is redfish or river flounder (in my opinion)...snook getter

Snook, is it true that the winter months like December, produce bigger snook?

hey snook, why dont you try salty's needles, you wont be dissapointed. :btu: and by the looks of it would love to get my hands on one of big fish needles.:shocked:

redneck, Try a HABS, You wont be DISSAPOINTED............................. :btu:

I've found that neither HABS or Salty's needles produce when sitting in my surfbag. I really need to get out :smash:

-spence

Hi-Jack :gorez:

Habs is the Uber-Needle God , dont forget that:laughs:

dats right;)

a hint
 

already mapped out the spots im hitting....just one piece of advice i want from you all....are the higher tides better then the lows like they are down here?

JHABS,

I just finished reading David DiBenedetto's book "On The Run" and thought I would tell you how great you were in the book !!!!
He told a great story of how generous you were in showing him the ropes at Quonnie.

Now that I have blown smoke up your rear...;)..Is there anyway you could be generous to an old fart in MD that bounces around the Jetty at OC and on the beach at Assategue Island without any decent lures to use :( Plus, my :af: wife wont let me drive up there to find them! She says I would spend all the kids' back to school and Christmas money if I found you!

I know I am not getting married like the Snook but I would gladly marry another woman, it that would help. I cry at night from waiting to find one of your lures at a Fling. Since, you helped out a young Savannah, GA boy on a long Fishing trip,I thought maybe you would be so kind to point me in the proper direction to find some of your needlefish lures.( <---Begging on hands and knees now, as I crawl thru glass to pay homage to your needlefish's beauty and greatness ) ;) :D Any help would be greatly appreciated!

lureless in MD,
Forrest

PS: Anybody got a need for a used wife....:D :smash:

I don't think that was Ho'ing....more like Shoveling...:D

Re: a hint
 

Snook, that all depends where you are fishing... For me, time of day, and how much light there is is more important than tides in most places, and if your only staying in newport, you wont be fishing any estuaries, which are really a tide dependant fishing place.
I know nothing about fishing for snook, but with bass, you want rough water, low light conditions, moving water(ie strong tides) and most importantly some sort of structure in front of where your casting.
I've always fished with the rule of thumb that off the rocks, 1 hour before high tide is the best, as bass like to forage around in the wash picking up crabs, and baitfish in areas that might have been dry at mean low tide..

bring some Korkers as the rocks around Newport can be very slippery especially at low tide...

Good luck finding bass, thats easy. Catching them is another story:happy:

AI4WD, Thanks for the Kind words, P.M me and will steer you in the right Direction..................O 'yah You don't have to Crawl thru glass either...................... :D

Are you sure you do not want me ....to get married again. So I can trade in the wife.....;) :D


Thanks,
Forrest (AI4WD)

hurricane
 

well fella's....it looks like im gonna get hammered in the next few days by francis...

enough of that tho...tonight midnight snook season opens up....i got the last 3 dozen pin/pig fish at the baitshop for tonight and tom morning and already told work im going to be running late tom. morning....

some good comes outa hurricanes tho in these parts....the strong current and waves from the north makes the sand gather up in the narrower inlets...a few years back this happend at an undisclosed inlet and clogged the inlet up to where there was only a passage about 20 feet across....this bottle necked the bait as well as the hungry snook into this area and first light on the low tide was an amazing sight to see when the snook would trigger and there would be masses of mullet in the air and as many as a dozen trophy snook in the air doing cartwheels and thousands of them underneath breaking up the schools....a little flip cast across the channel with that jointed long a olive and bang...everyone left with there limit, every day, morning and afternoon/night tide till they finally dregged it out again.....

now sing along "its the most wonderful time..of the year"

habs....dont forget about the florida boy...that needle would of been a jewel that day i just mentioned....just tell me what ya got and what you want for it....i dont want to be running around new england looking for them in october....


snook getter

hab's is so overrated. every year its a new lure that everyone says they have to have. if you're a good fisherman it wont matter.

ive gotta an arsenal im bringing up for my one night...would like to have some habs tho to see what they are about...try em out...get em wet...show the beach walkers here in fla what the beach walkers in new england are buying up/ catching fish with...ive actually said this before on a different thread...those tiger striped windcheaters i swear by here look exactly like the gibbs tiger striped....you all should give those a try (windcheaters) if you dont already....can fling'em a mile...

i actually found some heavy pencil poppers at my local shop and bought them up...and the proven windcheaters, bombers and others will get there chance as well...snook getter

ps. you all use hawks/feathers at all? or is that a fl. thing...those will get there chance in oct as well....o yah gotta find some of those all black bombers....

mddletown, I can't please everyone nor do I TRY TO, But I will tell you this EVERY YEAR FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS I sell every thing I can make so it s not a NEW LURE. If you feel my PLUGS are over rated than you don't have to buy them..................... If you can't Say Some Thing Good Say Some Thing Bad Atleast your Talking About ME AND THAT IS FREE ADVERTISING :thanks: ...............................You 4 post guys come out of the wood work.......... :rolleyes:

no disrespect from my corner
 

habs...you wouldnt be as popular as you are if they werent proven over and over and over again....dont cancel my order....snook getter

Hey Hab I didnt say I dont own any haha. I loved you in "On the Run" I gotta get you to sign my copy.

francis
 

francis is a strong 4 (winds 140mph) and building still looking like its gonna nail us...im starting to get really nervous...i just bought a new house, redid the floors, got a nice wide screen....in the middle of painting....please francis stay away....

as the day goes on the joy of snook season finally being here is dying...
keep us in your prayers.....snook getter

did you board up the windows yet?

francis
 

its supposed to make landfall friday in the middle of the night...the bosses said that friday is off and most likely thursday will be a half day...if it keeps going on the same path im going to have to take wed and thursday to help my inlaws, my parents, my sister as well as my own house....

FRANCIS
 

GO THE OTHER WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

It seems like you are losing it!!

:drool: :drool: That's one of my favorites. . . ..not the friendliest for casting....but a serious threat to fish-kind:devil:

Have any of you seen these stocked anywhere? PM or post please....I'm not sure if M&D's has this on his wall or not - - - -



...and I have to agree with mddltown, HAB'S are definately over-rated!! .....:laughs: :laughs: :laughs:


Keep up the good work Johnny - :)

bombers
 

they sell the oversized ones down my way....ya can fling'em....
olive of coarse.....

I know since when does two fish over fifty and one of those over sixty say a plug is good:smash: :D :happy:

Habs plugs will go down in history as classics.