DZ

what line and leader specs do you use for such areas?

Thank you,
Mike

Favorite would be topwater, like seeing the smash. But I like catching better, so jigs and eels are what I'm throwing 95% of the time

I enjoy wading in moderate surf and fishing rocky bars and holes. I really like to be in the water when I fish. Like most, I enjoy the "hit" when using plugs, but there is always a voice in me that says I should be using eels if I want to get bigger fish. I get bored using eels when there is no action.

Dennis looking forward to the next week.

All good stuff, diversity not only is good for the family of man but the family of Striper nutz too.

Everyone has thier fav methodology but all connected to the same goal. There are more ways than one to screw in a lightbulb.

As for the canal, I always loved jigging there but even more so since going to 50lb. braid several years back. Wow, the hit nearly tears the rod out of your hand and you can detect the slightest take no matter how hard the tide is running.

Topwater plugging is great too. When the bass comes up and hits the thing and then proceeds to slap it's tail several times before sounding and the fight is on, way coool.

Needles at night on a lonely sand beach looking to the eastern horizon and Spain ( or is it Portugal?) I hear you Karl.

And I must admit, even though it's not on the top of my list, seeing a pogie with it's head out of the water doing the shimmy of death and you can see the terrified look of hopelessness. And then the "pop" sound and the water hissing as the bubbles come to the surface is pretty neat.

Keep them coming!:btu:

Whatever is working...
 

I never met a fishing method I didn't like. If ALL ways were equally as productive I'd take throwing my own wood hands down.

Mike - another excerpt.

When fishing in this environment it is wise to use heavy duty tackle. A nine to ten foot rod with lots of back bone is ideal. A matched reel loaded with at least 20 pound line will allow you to put the screws to large bass that want to run into the various rock and weed snags prevalent in these areas. This is not finesse fishing – there is no room for light tackle unless you want to lose plugs. Bass are in these areas to feed and will readily hit your offering if presented properly. You have to be ready to yank them out of the structure.

I personally use Big Game 20 lb mono. Heavy mono leader 50-60 lb.

DZ

top water on pencil poppers:jump:

Early spring.. High noon... glass calm water and metal liped swimmers..... the explosions are like god dropped a cinderblock from the heavens.

Love fishing my eels, but they swim sub surface so i miss the hit- I am topwater junky.

Dynamite.

#1 working a spook ,, I like when they miss it and just keep getting more and more pissed. I know stop and let them hit it ,, too much fun watching the explosions .

#2 a needle .. big fish like them ..

When I fished bait, for a challenge,, I use to like to go with nothing ,, some 1 1/4 ounce jiggs,,sabita fly rigs ,, Forage your own bait from shore then fish for bass . At worst dig some sea clams at the low water line .

I try to remember the old dry fly /wet fly snobbery.. At one time all fishers fished a dry fly on top . When the wet fly came out people who fished it were looked down upon by the purist . To each his own,,, I like what I'm doing now ,, who knows what I'll be doing in a couple of years .. I only look down my nose at" poachers and pigs "

1/4, 1/2 or full stick?

Wood! Its all I have thrown all year is my handmades! There is nothing like it....swimmers, poppers, needles, jointeds.....its the best!:kewl:

5 gal bucket , 12 pack of beer , 6 bunker to be chunked into small pieces catchem bigum fish sticks

Thank you sir! I have a few setups that will do.

Mike

:buds: :skulz:

i hope clammer reads this :smokin:

I'm with the catching crowd so it's whatever they happen to be on. Location and conditions will usually dictate this. I love hooking up and the hookset and nothing beats a screaming drag. I enjoy fishing most anything but it's hard not to get a little extra riled up seeing a nice fish rise up to tail slap or breach the surface like a trident to inhale a topwater.

Bringing back a loaded Redfin or Gold Chrome Bomber so slow that my hand is hardly moving. These plugs do work pretty well in my conditions. When I fish- I try to minimize what can go wrong so as not to spoil the Karma or the inner peace I get. These plugs are pretty fool proof and if I lose one its $6. I get to load them and switch out the hooks so I kind of feel I am plug building a little.

BUT---I am going to Cuttyhunk next weekend and I am will be throwing some beastly wood including some Bassmaster dannys and needles that I have have been saving for a few years because the karma I want is the karma of catching an fu***in moose - Lets go.

flip..... i think i,m going gay for you... my favorite sound is the sound of the cash reg. at the fish market, as i drop my catch on the concrete floor.....the thrill is in the sell not the catch....WOW

I say it everytime I'm asked; a beer, a chair, and a chunk of mackerel at the canal.:gu:

it's all good.....
it is the hit and set for me.......eels, plugs, sluggos, storms.....whatever they want...I like catchin'
nite time is the right time:devil:

90% of the time it is eels the rest is plugs even thou I throw eels I would never use any other bait for stripers dosent make sense but that is the way it is plugs or eels thats it and I love them both equally.

Livelining scup/pogie is a blast. I think a pogie is proably the best bait but not as hardy to keep alive,, and come summer pogies are very hard to find. Theres nothing like feeling of vibration through braid... of a nervous fish being chased. I think the bass nails the bait to disorient it before she takes it down, you can tell evrything thats going on down there before the fish is hooked.
Another big reason I luv this style fishing is because its middle of the day, the sun is high and when that bass comes up you get to see it in its natural state still swimming and all those awsome colors. It just never gets old.

5 oz jig. 300 ft of 60lb wire. no leader.

jig by hand, and get my shoulder ripped by a good fish.

Wire is an art unto itself (and I seem to suck at surf fishing).

1)Paddling my kayak 10' (or less) from the crashing waves on my local rocky ledges and tossing my homemade Akespook into the whitewater.

Worked great this AM!

2) Standing in the surf .