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A buddy of mine was plugging the surf on Nantucket one fall when I guy walks up fishing a big Atom popper -with a 15" live eel impaled on the rear treble. He says Hi to Bob, and asks him,"Do you think this will work? The guy at the tackle shop said this plug was good for blues and live eels are the best bait for stripers so I thought I'd put 'em both together..." Bob managed to keep a straight face long enough to say, "Are you kidding me, that's a killer setup!- I wish I had some of those, I'd fish that. Even though it was mid-morning and the only action was on blues taken at the end of his cast with his 11' Ron Arra and a heavy Roberts plug, my buddy called it a day because he knew he'd bum out and lose it if the guy whacked anything on that combo.... Because thats exactly what happened while fishing 'tog at the canal one day when he went fishless for two hours and a couple of guys show up with a Bud Tall wound with blue 60 lb mono and a sparkplug weight, bolo it out and slid out about a 10lber in 5 min...
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