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HESH2 · 11-13-2009, 08:20 AM

i target alot of schoolies during spring and fall.i use 1/2 bucktails with 4'' or 6'' curly tails barbs are always crushed on all my stuff.hooks are never deep and always released unharmed.on the other hand tried using the 4'' storms and stripers would suck them down pretty good.they have bigger hookss and sometimes were problems unhooking,i stopped using them completly.cocohoes and bass assisins with 1'2 lead heads easy to release.sometimes if a schoolie was hooked deeper would unclip lead head and work out of fishes gills to release safely.out of many fish would get an occisonal bleeder from gill nick and feel bad about it,a bleeder bass is a dead bass.then a few years ago john r poster up about ocean herring boats taking thousands of bass in nets as bycatch and throwing them dead back.so if i catch quite a few maybe 2 killed.all other bigger bass strickly c&r by me.

11-13-2009, 08:20 AM	#14
HESH2 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: CONNECTICUT Posts: 851	i target alot of schoolies during spring and fall.i use 1/2 bucktails with 4'' or 6'' curly tails barbs are always crushed on all my stuff.hooks are never deep and always released unharmed.on the other hand tried using the 4'' storms and stripers would suck them down pretty good.they have bigger hookss and sometimes were problems unhooking,i stopped using them completly.cocohoes and bass assisins with 1'2 lead heads easy to release.sometimes if a schoolie was hooked deeper would unclip lead head and work out of fishes gills to release safely.out of many fish would get an occisonal bleeder from gill nick and feel bad about it,a bleeder bass is a dead bass.then a few years ago john r poster up about ocean herring boats taking thousands of bass in nets as bycatch and throwing them dead back.so if i catch quite a few maybe 2 killed.all other bigger bass strickly c&r by me.