You can call me Got Stripers, GS, Bob, A**hole or the Big Jerk, because of my love of the big plastic jerkbaits. I fish out of Scituate Harbor most of the time, unless the weather is snotty, in which case I will pop my Lund into the North River or Boston Haba. I love rock and fish the ledges between Scituate and Boston up close an personal under the power of my bow mounted 101 # thrust Minn Kota RipTide trolling motor. Sometimes too close, because as anyone familiar with ledge and rollers will know, those rollers break differently at different stages of the tide. Going vertical, sometimes has a whole different meaning if you fish with me
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My favorite bait is my own 5-1/2 inch split tail plastic jerkbait, fished in what I consider a unique presentation, one not often duplicated by most I see. More detailed information on both are on my webpage, along with a couple jerkbait articles I've written on the subject. Suffice it to say it's a completely different approach to the norm, which is to slap a piece of plastic behind a jighead. Anyone interested in either my baits, the hooks or that approach should look me up at the upcoming MSBA show. I like to tinker with plastic design and various approaches to fishing them, because I don't think anything comes as close to the real thing as a well presented piece of plastic. I'd post the link to my site, but I'm not sure that's fair to the other paid sponsors, so I guess I will have to work out a deal with the boss man
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I've got 3 teenage boys, so it's a wonder I'm not in a corner rocking back and forth, in my stylish white wrap around dinner jacket
. Between those 3 clowns, the 4 golden retievers (we breed them, that better John lol) and my wife, who after 21 year of marrage still doesn't get my addiction to fishing, well let's just say I REALLY ENJOY my days out on the water. I've met some great people on this board and every one of them is a class act, well not all but let's not use the "P" word, in fact I had a good time fishing today with yet another freshman to my world.
I look forward to another season and meeting some of the new members on the board. I hope that we all have a banner year and let's all hope the stocks are better than the last couple seasons, tight lines.