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Old 12-08-2000, 10:59 AM   #6
Mike P
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Pat--I've got quite a few sundials on surface plugs. They are extremely agressive predators, even more aggressive than fluke, which I've also taken from time to time on swimmers.

I also occasionally dredge up a spider crab when jigging backwater areas. Pain in the butt to unhook--that pincer, as you saw, is sharp enough to cut a FinS in half. I also had one murder an eel one night that got too deep. In the spring, around the new moon, you'll also occasionally snag two mating horseshoe crabs, you'd swear you hooked an open beach umbrella.

Strangest catch this year was a goosefish (aka anglerfish or monkfish), in shallow water, in May. Second year in a row I've seen one in this particular spot. It ate a jig, it wansn't foul hooked.
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