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To many rods
Mr. Sandman,
Watched a guy at Quansoo several years ago try to tend to five baited rods. It was hillarious. Every little twitch and he was off and running. The rods at the far end of the stretch had to be two hundred feet apart. After he checked the rod that twitched he would settle back in in the middle sitting up against the dune. He wouldn't be there for two minutes before he was off and running again. I'll fish two if I don't feel like plugging or fly fishing, but any more than that takes the relaxation out of why your there to begin with.
I also remember a charter boat captain that used to park his jeep wagoneer as close as he could to the jetty at Tashmoo. He then would throw out four boat baited rods that had heavily weighted fish finders at the terminal tackle. He then would hold onto the lines while he sat in his old wagoneer and probably doze off. He clearly took up 150' of ujetty in his endeavour. I asked around about him at the time and a couple of people said he was a nice guy but a bit of a flake. I'll mention no names.
You should have used their bait as chum like beetle suggested or just fished in the middle of their gear. after all Metcalfs is bigger than six rods.
By the way leave some fish around for next years derby......
Flies made in blurple work really well!
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