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Originally Posted by Karl F
carry a 3 ounce or better hopikins, w/out hooks... for "casting practise" for these occasions... warning:... you will piss them off, if you connect.......
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NIB's on the money as far as great point goes. Bass fishing in the rip is close to impossible. You might land a small fish if you can haul it in quick but you won't have time to fight a good fish.
I've had one of the big seals come all the way in, past the rut and right up to the beach after a hooked fish. It had to wait for the next wave to get back in...
I was fishing with my dad and a friend of ours a couple years ago and we were down under the lighthouse chasing albies, and with three of us fishing when one of us hooked up the other 2 reeled in & went on guard duty on either side of the hooked up guy ala Karl' s hopkins method. It kind of works but you can't do it when the 'seal watchers' are anywhere near ya. And last year on the weekends there were more range rover driving seal watchers, than fisherman. I guess you kind of have to expect that with what the islands turned into.
I did have one day last year when the seals just stayed on the beach and let you bring blues by them all afternoon and did not bother them. I was talking with some guys there trying to figure out what was going on, apparently they had taken so many fish that morning that they actually stopped eating.