Dam straight,,, either that or miss him.... basically don’t know what to do with those freaking hooks,,, tight drag too early lose um,,, wait and gut hook um...
that bloo missed the stinger! Geeesh

Changed things up today…. Forgot how much I enjoyed the sweet water…Striper Bob got one that dwarfed this one…. :-)

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Getting some nice ones in the bay. pic right side up on my pc. i flip it around and reupload, same way lol i dunno i miss photobucket for this site.

Nice going out in am to see if I can find some slow start this season
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Yup uploading pics on this site is bizarre. If I preview a pic and it’s rotated wrong, I have to delete it, open it in paint. There I rotate it, save it, then open it again to rotate back to the way it looked to start and by the way the exact way I uploaded it to start. I upload it to my post again and miraculously it’s correct, when nothing changed other than a back and forth in paint to change nothing, bizzarro world on here.

It's just because John uses 1960's encoding :hihi:

Boat fish….
 

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I know, picked him up wrong… dah
Slapped me in the face when he took off..

After one of the slowest Starts of a season in recent memory Finally got this nice 35in 20lber , he was kept and given to My neighbor As i do every year .. Seems the pogie boats have moved out and some pogies with bass escorts have started to be easier to find .. next week should get better if you can beat the wind

Spot burn! I know those rocks over your left shoulder…. :cheers2:

Latest start to target stripers for me, just a lot going on, putting in locally early am in Plymouth.

I started... now stopped. Plovers... eesh.

On Dangles sled…..
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Remember…. No bashing

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Gup! Very NICE ; )

Thanks John

Left mid cape at 4 PM and got home at 4 AM…
I think they call that an half day trip…. LOL

Those are really nice fish. Reminds me of 05 and 06 when I got the Sea Hunt and "He who cannot be mentioned" and I were crushing large on a daily basis. Problem was, we killed everything we caught.

When I saw the tide and sea forecast yesterday am, I knew it would be a good tog bite in the skinny water on the incoming. I love fishing freshwater bass spinning tackle for tog with plastic. It was a fish on every cast for a while, my usual 3/8 oz. kalin ultimate jig head and my olive or smoke 4” split tail. It’s amazing how aggressive tog are when those conditions line up, good running tide, some good swell to generate lots of white water, they are opportunistic and will readily hit plastic. Not sure I’d take a tippy kayak as close as I got today, but my PA14 is like a big surfboard, just rides right up and over them.

Was met at the dirt ramp by an EP officer, he measured my one keeper tog and then insisted on seeing my license. I’m sweating bullets in the midday sun and trying to find the picture I always take of the license, pain in the ass. Go harass the poachers on the bridge, no you have to find the only guy nuts enough to peddle out to fish the slop on Hens and Chickens ledge really?

the poachers and litterers are too much trouble....because I have spin and fly gear, shore and paddle board stuff I print a bunch of copies of my license at the beginning of the season, put them in little zip lock bags and shove them in all of my gear, can't always remember where I put them but I figure my odds are good for finding one if I need to present one:rotf2:

I always have my phone and picture of the license off my computer every season I purchase it, it just a little much in light of what I see every year for the guy to bust me for one legal tog.

I run a few copies & have them coated

1 i n the boat , 1 in the truck , 1 in the bag I take 95% of the time & one in my wallet

commercial in my pocket

WRT licenses its always a pain to show. Sometimes in your wallet or you left it on the boat and your on your buds boat that day

But

Alls it takes for the epo is to radio your name on and verify. Takes less than a minute. So as long as you got it. No need to have on your person as far as I see it. Big they don’t like that answer
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Thru the the anchor next to an EP boat yesterday and fillet these,,, didn’t say boo…

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Nice job on fluke. BSB have been relatively easy, decent fluke are harder to find locally....

Ya, I was pleasantly surprised with the fluke,,, been meaning to try that area and it paid off,,,
That BSB in the pic is a wopper… :-)

In this day and age, a Statie that pulls you over knows the status of your license, registration, insurance, and inspection before leaving the cruiser. All MSP cruisers, and indeed, most town police cruisers have a MDT on board, linked to a central data base. I suspect that the formality of "license and registration, please" is just to keep you there while they run a warrant check.

Changed things up today,,, plus a bonus found some wild high blues,,, going back for the blues this weekend,,

https://youtu.be/EWyb4FBtKJU

https://youtu.be/bU2y8IXd-6I


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I get the blues EVERY weekend when I think of what the striper fishing is like these days!
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Seem to be plenty boat fish up this way only very few over 24.. :-(

Matt hammered them today
 

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I should have taken pictures of the School of Jacks 20-40lb jacks I found in hilton head! with 9 other people on a pontoon Boat with me driving and trying to cast wasn't fun . what was worse I could see them ignore plug after plug I threw at them.. then with my albie rod I had one take a white albie snack he was on for like a Min and broke the leader . by the time I got my heavier set up rigged with an albie snax I couldnt find them and time was up with the rental :realmad: