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01-31-2009, 08:35 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 29
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favorite top water plug
There is nothing like a bass hitting a top water plug. Just woundering whats your vote for top water?? for me its the zara spook the new big wooden ones  |
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01-31-2009, 08:38 AM
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eh! What do you mean?
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Tiverton
Posts: 763
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Pencil all the way...
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01-31-2009, 08:43 AM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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Blitzseeker (Zara type plug), pencil (canal type).........
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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01-31-2009, 08:49 AM
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Steve "Van Staal"
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Cranston
Posts: 544
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Zara spook type lure,danny boy with or with out skin, or canal special.
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01-31-2009, 09:01 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: West Sayville. NY
Posts: 37
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This past year I tried an Al Gag's "It's Alive" and it has become a favorite. You can fish it a bunch of ways.
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01-31-2009, 09:23 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Toss up......pencil/"Blitzseeker"!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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01-31-2009, 09:26 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Narragansett
Posts: 903
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I like the "walk the dog" action of spooks, particularly the Tattoo 2 oz Sea Pup, and the lures a friend makes, Fishdoc's "John's Fatty", which gives a broad silhouette in darkness. At dawn the pencil popper prevails.
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01-31-2009, 10:25 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Easton, MA
Posts: 5,737
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Pencil popper for sure. I started fishing the Jigsmith at the end of last year and it was definitely a fish finder. I'll be using it more this coming season based on the limited experience I had with it.
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Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them tools at their disposal that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. - Marco Rubio
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01-31-2009, 10:33 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Location: South of Boston
Posts: 2,605
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If I am throwing plugs, and not eels, it would be a Bernzy Surf Howdy all day long.........
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan
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01-31-2009, 10:52 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Southern Maine
Posts: 178
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Akespook Ultraglide
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01-31-2009, 11:15 AM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,425
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Surf Howdy
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Frasier: Niles, I’ve just had the most marvelous idea for a website! People will post their opinions, cheeky bon mots, and insights, and others will reply in kind!
Niles: You have met “people”, haven’t you?
Lets Go Darwin
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01-31-2009, 11:41 AM
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Red Eye Jedi
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: East Facing
Posts: 4,374
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loaded cordell pencil
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01-31-2009, 11:50 AM
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Also known as OAK
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Westlery, RI
Posts: 10,408
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Needle on top leaving a wake
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Bryan
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
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01-31-2009, 12:09 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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the small jigman//jigsmith spook ... pearl white is all you need ..
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01-31-2009, 12:35 PM
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Great White Scup Hunter
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In the Corner...
Posts: 2,251
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Spook,,,
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01-31-2009, 03:25 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 29
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"gotta fish" spooook amen
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01-31-2009, 04:11 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Melrose MA
Posts: 587
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Superstrike popper or a Guppy pencil, or a Salty Sheriff
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01-31-2009, 04:17 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Melrose MA
Posts: 587
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and the yozuri pencils are great as well
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01-31-2009, 04:29 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: west of the canal; but not that far:)
Posts: 89
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surf howdy absolutely
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"Wanna' be beach bum"
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01-31-2009, 04:32 PM
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GrandBob
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 3,547
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BigFish Blitzseekers and Gibbs pencils, but just starting to get into the Yo-Zuri Surface Cruisers.
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01-31-2009, 09:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sturbridge MA
Posts: 3,127
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Ah spooks are great. CCT polaris, its old and beat up but still #1 for polaris style.
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Everything is better on the rocks.
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01-31-2009, 09:10 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Howdy, yellow white , is my favorite wooden and Youzuri hydro pencil is fine too
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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01-31-2009, 09:20 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,125
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Jigman spook
or a howdy close second
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01-31-2009, 09:31 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: NY
Posts: 254
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howdy blue/gold
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01-31-2009, 10:02 PM
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Calling Jon The Fisherman
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: The Sack Of Mass
Posts: 2,357
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Any big 9-inch spook. Did well with my leadfoot this year, after watching capt. Corey from the Edge work a spook, it changed the way I worked them forever
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01-31-2009, 10:33 PM
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Night Stalker
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: ............
Posts: 3,605
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can't choose one but always in my day bag:
super strike popper 2 3/8 oz.
surf asylum sleepwalker spook
yozuri pencil 2 oz.
mac pencil 3 oz.?
tattoo sea pup
surf howdy large and small
hab's 1 oz. squid popper
1.5 oz. troublemaker surfster
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01-31-2009, 10:34 PM
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Night Stalker
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: ............
Posts: 3,605
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Canalman
Any big 9-inch spook. Did well with my leadfoot this year, after watching capt. Corey from the Edge work a spook, it changed the way I worked them forever
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do tell.  |
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02-01-2009, 08:09 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Favorite is different than best
The best (easily) is on the top: Gibbs 2.75 pencil
My favorites (and the most fun to fish) below: Prof M version of Lido Flaptail/ Frech Banana copy
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02-01-2009, 10:10 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 369
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Prob. a CCC tackle pencil or polaris. God i love those. Yes Canalman please tell.
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02-01-2009, 11:05 AM
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Calling Jon The Fisherman
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: The Sack Of Mass
Posts: 2,357
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It was a rare sight to see a guy who spends 99% of the season on his boat telling his clients where to cast standing in the surf on a perfect late-May morning, but for anyone who knows Capt. Corey Pietreszek, he has proven himself as a master of the artificial bait. He was casting a yellow Tattoo Sea Spook, the big one, and looking over at his bait while working my own, I began to see that my lure looked incredibly fake.
He worked the bait in bursts that varied in intensity and length. His first few feet of the retrieve were erratic, drawing attention to the bait and from there he worked it with long pauses interrupted by slow swims and erratic, frantic bursts.
We didn't catch much that morning. But the next day, was rainy and I had the day off. I went down there with my leadfoot spook, (the only big spook I had handy at the time) and began working it with the image of a dying bunker in my head. I caught fish until my arms hurt, nothing huge mostly 14-17 pounds with a few 18-20.
There were two eye opening experiences that day, #1 probably 80% of the fish hit the plug while it was standing motionless, and I believe that your spook should sit flat on the water, nose slightly above the tail, not up and down like a pencil. #2 that when a bass nudged the bait or swirled on it, whipping the rod down toward the water while zipping a fast crank on the reel would make the plug leap, 1-3 leaps in succession followed by a short pause... BAM! I was able to recreate this scenario many times during the season, in the canal and all along the south coast. I never broke 30 on a spook this year, but I had my share of 15-25 pounders.
I always worked my spooks to look alive, never in a rehearsed pattern, but the chages in intensity, pauses and leaps, took it to the next level for me.
Why'd you have to make me tell that story, that was like writing a Penthouse Letter for fishermen, now I'll be staring at my rods all day frustrated! 
Is it spring yet?
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