What are you going to use in place of river herring ?
 

I need some alewife and blueback lures.

Why minks of course :smokin: :vamp:

dannies, sluggos, fins, redfins, bombers, big pencils, houdinis, surfsters etc etc :huh:

Why dont you mass guys use a black salty?

Bassassassins, pencils, and big storms

Bombers mega baits fin-s and the like

9 inch storms shads, Eels,

I think they are illegal in MA

Mombo Minnows and FinS Fish.

Piping Plovers.

Live Kittens

cow left overs

EXACTLY what I was planning on doing UNTIL....

polish shad, darters, dannies, epoxy smiling bills and M-80's:devil2:

you haven't looked in my bag yet :hidin:

sea herring.
mackeral.
pogies.
pollak.
cunners.
eels.
crabs.

don't matter, long as it's alive and kickin'

I'll be using Grand Slams...

YES :D

WOrms

ohh man,,,, i can't wait.
i have a feeling you won't be the only one using them don :D

Big New Wood Baits....................... Coming Soon.

I would think with the moratorium on herring and possibly eels, that (commercial) plug builders would do well selling imitations of these 2 bait fish. Thanks for all the replys

white perch

Slugo's 9 and 7". Rigged for the circumstances your fishing.
Salty's Danny's are great too.

Gonna use the same stuff I been using

I may have spoke too soon . . . I went to the Black Salty website and they are illegal in freshwater in CA and FL . . . but no indication about MA/RI, etc.

I was not able to find anything in the MA DMF site about BS's (although it does have a section on bait).

The larger of the two sizes are $75 for 5 pounds which is about 80 baits.

blue and silver pikes seem to work awsome in spring along with other colors and dannys with a tan back and shades of olive.
It depends on cloudy or sunny.
blue and silver dannys yellow ,olive and yellow,
pearl white with hues on side.
if the fish are hitting on top then its time to swim these lures.
in june at sun up the killer plug is a pike in yellow or a danny, worked on top.
many big bass for me.
remeber also
it depends where you are, have 1 place that the bass are down in am and up in pm and on the flood tide.
yet down the beaches you can whomp the piss out of them in am and in the inlets and P bay

BIG dannys,finsfish,pencil poppers and blue back white belly buck tail jigs. bait-mack,pogy chunks,clams and worms

For me the spring is more about schoolie harrasing as i dont care for livelining herring.

the big fish aren't in yet and the schoolies are packed into corners and rips all down our coast.


This is what i used the past 2 springs and i kept it a heavily guarded secret until now.. Its not rocket science, but not many guys were able to outfish me when i was using this little puppy.

happy holidays everyone and i hope someone gives this a try next spring.

Nebe, Is that the 4.5 or the 7 inch?

...and...
2 oz... 3...?

4.5 inch. and for that photo i used a 3/8's head, but the head size should be determed by where you are fishing. 3/8's for calm.. 1- 1.5 oz for some current.

play around with it..Also, i always crush the barbs. Always.

Joe lyons even wrote about my sucess with this last spring in OTW...

Have you ever used those Crazy Joe Rigs?

yes. They are deadly.

pearl cocohoes are really the staple schoolie lure. you wont catch a southcounty sharpie with out at least 10 in his pocket in april/may. Joe knew this and whalaa

Black Saltys
 

If goldfish are legal in MA, than so are these fish. You can drive to RI, buy some and stop at a pet shop to get a few smaller goldfish to mix in. There aint a cop Iknow gonna take a second look. If you were to show them to a game warden, im pretty sure he wouldnt bat an eye either. Koi are legal in MA are they not? Anyone know if Koi are ok? Just tell them your tired of your pets and decided to try and catch dinner with them......:huh:

Introducing fish that are foreign to our waters may cause damage to the streams and ponds where the herring spawn. Imagine goldfish (carp) or black salty's eating the all the eggs of herring.

thats what she said

That is awesome Nebe, I will try it this year along with the cocochoes, I was just on Joe's site today drooling over his cocochoe rigs dreaming of catching that first schoolie of the year with them. I remember getting so frustrated last year that I wasn't catching a lot of schoolies in the spring, hopefully those days will be over come April/May!

your welcome. In the spring, think small. I mean really small. I have also put a grass shrimp teaser above that and have had many many double hookups. What usually happens is you hook one bass and as your reeling it in, another bass thinks its chasing the teaser The trick is not to winch them in quick, that way they have time to hit the 'unoccupied' offering. .. 2 teasers usually means tripple hookups, but thats cruel IMO.