Magic swimmers were the way to go for me. This year, I'm putting on better split rings and hooks.

This year was quite different for me. I fish eels almost exclusively but they were not working for me for some reason. I ended up fishing 90% needle fish and would switch back and forth with eels almost every night. I caught more bass than I ever have in a season but my largest was 30 lbs and my sons largest was 36 lbs Both on needle fish. I defiantly should have broken 40 a couple of time with the time I put in and the numbers I was putting up in big fish water. They just were not there for me. I still had a great season and did get to hook up quite a few fish in Oct and Nov on eels although the size was not there. My largest fish on eels this year was 28 lbs.

Needles in a lot of different styles, shapes and weights. I built a lot of different sized & oddly shape stuff last year just to experiment with so I fished them more than usual. They are usually a second half of the season plug for me but I started fishing them early last year and did well with them all season.

Most of my fish were taken on a black NB Bottledarter, my bigger fish were taken on the 12 inch black Sluggo fished eel speed with very subtle twitches.
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I get tired of ablies. After you get a bunch I keep asking myself, why I am doing this over and over. I get bored and go home. Has to be the most popular trash fish in the sea. They on fun on a fly rod but even that gets old. Now if they got to 100# then, OK I see where you are coming from but 10# fish after 10# all day long gets old.

The hogy lures work but to be honest they were way over hyped. When they worked so did everything else. There is nothing magic about them. I preferred fishing with home made experiments instead of messing around with that Chinese copied crap. (yes they are copied maria's.) Both suffer from epoxy melting and destruction issues.

Lol I have to agree Albie's are fun for a week or 2 then I have had my fill, for me.
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AL GAG'S WHIP-IT FISH

Vic welcome to the school of magic swimmers, they work well, I've been fruitless with them but during the mid summer blitz I was proficient with naked Yo Zori 8.5"but during night hours eels are my best bet,the last pic I caught close 2 two dozen that night.it was hard to wype my arse the next day.i

BOBBY you're a beast!

My fall was full of bait fishing with Sea Worms lots of fish to 25 pounds

I didn't do well at all this year on plugs But I had my best luck on Salty's and Super Strike needles in parrot

I get tired of ablies. That's never going to happen for me !!! anyway Bass were slow for me all season eels and live pogies May and June. didnt hit the canal 1 time..
for Albies Albie snaxs
and epoxies for me pink was the color when they wouldn't bite

Dead eel

Thanks Buddy but I've gotta be in the worst shape of my life...I need to hit the weights more,thank God for New Years resolution!

I caught all of those on that Loomis you wraped (sex change) for me last winter,and she held up beautifully.Surprisingly she felt better in the fall than in the spring maybe she likes heavier girls.
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