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CANAL RAT · 06-03-2006, 02:53 PM

i fish bait on the beaches mostly clams,sea worms,pogy and mackeral and only plug the canal so i need to be schooled on baitfishing the canal,so i used a drift rig with a 2oz egg sinker and i could not keep the mackeral on the hook and i could not keep the weeds off of it, what range of sinker weights should i use?,is there any particular type of bait that works in the canal best? and what pieces of the baitfish the stay on the hook best?. funny thing is when i swiched over to jigging a 2oz hopkins i caught fish!!!

06-03-2006, 02:53 PM	#1
CANAL RAT EVERY FISH COUNTS!! iTrader: (0) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: south plymouth, MA Posts: 727	fishing the canal with bait i fish bait on the beaches mostly clams,sea worms,pogy and mackeral and only plug the canal so i need to be schooled on baitfishing the canal,so i used a drift rig with a 2oz egg sinker and i could not keep the mackeral on the hook and i could not keep the weeds off of it, what range of sinker weights should i use?,is there any particular type of bait that works in the canal best? and what pieces of the baitfish the stay on the hook best?. funny thing is when i swiched over to jigging a 2oz hopkins i caught fish!!!
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