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Striperbum:
I find that a teaser increases the chances of getting a hit either on it or the jig. Doubles are actually a pain in the neck and are sort of the price you pay for using a teaser. I'm starting to think that a hookless teaser might be a better idea.
I was one of those "locals" you referred to last Tuesday. I was using a very light Fenwick with a little Prion reel. Getting two flopping striper babies up the rocks to turn them loose was a problem, so I switched to my larger Fenwick. At around 4:30 I took the teaser off because the doubles were coming hot and heavy.
My experience has been that a teaser gives me more singles. Two units must make them more excited or something than one does, so they attack one or the other. Once hooked, a friend will sometimes go after the remaining lure and, voila, you end up with a double and also the problems associated with getting rid of them without falling off the rocks. The conservationist in me is guilty about getting doubles (and therefore about using a teaser) because it means they'll both be out of the water longer and more subject to injury. Also, one is inevitably bouncing around the rocks while you're wrestling with the other one.
As for jig color, I've had the best luck so far this year at the WW with white, with a cream colored grub attached to it. Last year green/yellow was better than white; the year before that it also was white that I found best. The green seems to emulate sand eels; the white, herring (or whatever you want to call them). There were guys using every possible color on Tuesday, though, and they all seemed to work. But white seemed most popular and most productive. Do you agree, John?
It'll get better as it warms up--the tourists at the beach serve as chum!!! ;-)
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