I'll tell ya Chuck it's slow. Midnight to 6:30 AM yesterday All I could scare up was 2 high teen fish.....on eels. I absolutely refuse to go to Prov anymore.

high teen inches? or lbs?

I never used pencils much/ with all the buzz on the net here I picked up a yozuri hydro pencil. didnt catch squat/ the bait was there too as I saw several comorants picking up a late lunch.

don't know if i was doing something wrong or the fish just weren't interested in my offerings yesterday.

tied the yozuri pencil on direct with a palomar knot.

it didnt really do much action wise/ maybe I was doing something wrong? id bring it in slow and twitch it like a sluggo or topwater popper..

should I have used something more like a perfection or surgeons loop (for more action?)

the lure sat in the water with its tail down and the head sticking up/ it was a floater. call me a googan/ but, how do you work guys work these in effectively?

I think most great fisherman should be able to adapt to any condition. Its always been my goal to learn and try any form of fishing weather bait or artificial. But theres nothing wrong with catching fish how ever you prefer....there is just no wrong way. I could care less if herring are ever allowed, for me does day were a lot of work. A plug bag full of lures is all I need and the days with fish out number the skunked ones so I dont mind one or two every now and then. Its good for a reality check. Pencil do catch fish and lots of fish. I haver always been a polaris man when it came to poppers, but i fished the beaches a lot then. Now that most of my time is spent in the ditch a pencil is more eficiant in the current tho polaris do work great while tide is crawling......By far my favorite way of all is the danny or swimmer...this has always been my thing and will continue no matter where I fish..I find it to be my easier then bait plug

I love it all. I fish for stripers with Chunk bait, live lining, plugs, plastic and, maybe most of all, flies. Same with trout....this past weekend , here in Vermont, was fly fishing a very promising section of a river. An hour later I had tried 4-5 flies and had missed one. Back to the SUV where I grabbed my spin rod and a couple of large spoons and spinners. 10 minutes later WHAM, a 20 " brown hits a spoon as I'm working it through fast water. I missed another hard hit 5 minutes later. I had to go at that point, but if I had stayed and they weren't hitting any more I might have tried a crayfish or crawler. I just like fishing!

pencils? I am familiar with the pencil poppers, or when you guys say pencils do you mean these yozuri types i got?

i know how to work the pencil popper/ whats the technique with the yozuri style?

INCHES????

I'm an old timer. We never talked inches. They were 17 to 20 POUNDS. I consider them schoolies at this time of year. We should be banging 30's by now.

atleast a lot more of them. plenty of teen to 20lb schoolies around agreed

I think those might be more of a spook
fish with rod to side and twitch

Pencils are not that hard to work, get a Gibbs canal special and try that out. Or even one of Mikes and Cape Cod Tackle, his fish well.