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.

THANKS GUYS....................

they must be rare!
 

There is currently a Hab's eel colored needle on ebay and someone is willing to pay $42.99 plus shipping. :rolleyes:
Pete

I love these guys who say Habs are overrated. If you don't like them, don't buy them. It serves no useful purpose to disparage John and his work. I know, I know, you are entitled to your opinion. I just don't see the purpose is dissing a guys who works hard for his money and has, for the most part, brought the needlefish plug to the forefront of surf fishing. My 2 cent....John, keep doin' what ya doin'.

I agree there is no need to speak out against HABS. I support habs because of the fact that his lures are produced by a surf guy like myself not some factory over in Japan. He puts a lot of time into each plug and it shows in the final product. Not to mention they catch fish!

Not dissing
 

I hope that you don't think I was dissing anyone. It amazes me that someone is willing to pay almost $50 for a fishing lure. I've lost too many lures to bluefish and have too many kids to do that.:)
Pete

I was wrong
 

It's now over $50:D

:btu: :humpty:

Hey, among the Habs that I fish I've also got 3 that are hanging on the wall of fame in my tackle room - they're from the first run of needlefish John did years back -

Hell, I knew a long time ago Habs was more than just another pretty face....:btu:

I also have some first run Habs needles and jointed swimmers, of which these were prototypes. I would never fish them

frances sucks
 

hey you all....
we'll we made it through frances....it was scarry and i still dont have power...

the house is fine but my nieghborhood looks like a bomb went off in it....we've had to have the windows open cause of the heat so the humidity may cause a problem with the drywall if they dont hook up power soon...

get this...yesterday part of my nieghborhood gets hooked up with power and my house doesnt have power...i go looking for the power truck and the guy is in one of my neighbors garage drinking beer....that was last night and today still no power....

right now im at the mac store in the mall enjoying the ac....just bought a nice computer and im excited...

i fished opening day of snook season and my partner got a nice twenty pounder...he had no choice but to take it cause it got wedged in the rocks and by the time we got it out he was too weak to make it....thats the only day i got to fish...after that frances wouldnt let anyone go fishing....

still looking forward too my honeymoon and getting my shot at my first striper....talk to you all in a day or so when i get back to work....and finally habs....dont forget about the kid from sflorida who is waiting patiently...and for the player haters out there disrespecting people....dont hate the player...hate the game.....SHUT UP AND FISH......SNOOK GETTER

SNOOK
 

Whats a snook?:D



Is that the singular version of getting snookered?:D




Blurple flys wrok greatt, too!

there was a pic of one couple pages back.....glad u made it through the storm snook getter gl on your honeymoon and gettin urself a nice cow hope u get some LARGE!

still no power
 

back in the mall cause power is still off....funny the mall gets electricity...the zoo gets electricity....most of my neighbors get electricity....but not me

ol' lady is getting her nails done so here i am in the mac store saying hey...

i just got a mail order of some needles for my trip....1.5 oz.ers....i forget who makes them but they got a black and yellow label....i want to use them for snook'n but curfews from francis are thro'n a wrench in my september season...they are olive and white and another that is more of a green been green.....my ole lady has to work tomorrow so ill have time to catch bait and try for some hogs off the beach tom. afternoon.....i wanna get on the islands for the prime spots in the sunrise hours but national guard says "cant fish here, go home now or go to jail for breaking curfew"....how has the action been in you alls part of the woods....any big stripers to be taken? any bloooooooooooofish? i wanna fish so bad but there has been so many problems with the hurricane......

habs....you making any progress with the new batch? cant wait to see them...

snook getter

snookgetter, Working like a DOG......................

If u don't have nothin nice to say, then say nothin at all.Can't tell ya how many times i heard this as a kid.It sorta worked.

i got the power
 

lights back on.....finally

im at work right now un-wrapping from frances....i work up in stuart and they got the direct hit....truthfully we got it worse down in west palm cause there was no 4 hour lul when the eye passed....we also got the southern wall which is always stronger....

i did get to fish 2 days ago with some live pins and pigs off juno pier....missed a nice one and my partner who came up here from dania caught a beast at 42inches...right around 33lbs....he caught it on a mullet skin of all things which he tells me is a prime bait for big lazy snook down miami way....they are lazy till there hooked up....we thought it was a big stingray when it first hooked up....my brother called me also on my way to work this morning and told me that big ones are being taken from the surf down boca raton way and saw a nice oversized get released at the pavillion....i hopefully will get another chance tonight if i am lucky....

my buddy from ri called me yesterday and said that stripers have been everywhere on the beach in you alls parts....alot of bait everywhere and that people have been killing it....can i belive him? you guys tell me....

any way bak to waork....snook getter

Your buddy must be fishing where no one else is. We have been s#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g wind for a week. I got 1, 23lb fish in 7 nights of crawlin rocks and throwing eels. I am not alone.

I picked a good week to get sick.... effin got strepp...:mad:

You got little kids? I would get strep every Fall when the kids went back to school.

my buddy....
 

thanks pie....he's been a good buddy of mine for years, but lately ive caught him telling some tall tails....now that i look back over the years, it kinda explains alot of things....thanks for calling his bs....

fished this weekend and landed several shorts on chartruese and white hawks...a beast was caught on the beach juno way on a live mullet, to big had to be thrown back....still recovering from francis so fishing time has been scarce....cant wait for october...hope i get to meet some of you all, ill be up there in early to mid october and from what i hear will be prime time....snook getter