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

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

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

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!!!

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.