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 .