[Mr. Sandman]

Last week I had a 20 lber that had a 8" lobster whole in its belly.
They eat just about anything, but prefer it live to dead. But they will eat cut bait too.

My dad always fished with small blackfish and bergalls for big bass. He liked them better then eels. Take a sissor to the dorsal, get him near the bottom and hold on. This is a very producive method esp around eastern LI where I grew up. Try drifting one thru plum gut, and around the island and chances are very high you don't finish the drift without hooking up.

Bergalls are easy to catch and stay alive great in a live bait well. But get it down at the bottom, forget topwater herring-like surface splashing...getem down deep. I have never used them from shore but you certainly could.

P.S. there are big fish around, dispite what you read on this board that its time to hang up the rods. Take my word on it. Not everyone is mowing them like 1981 but they are here. This is the time of year you want to push yourself for the trophy fish. The water temp is 59 and the fat lady has not even warmed up yet. We nearly a month of fishing left, don't pack it in.


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P.S. Glad to see the personal attack crap cease on this board. I almsot lost hope for this place.