Learn any new

[capesams]

tricks this fishing season..care to share them with us?

[spence]

Would you change your freakin avatar...PLEASE!!!



-spence

[Christian]

dont be afraid of big plugs.

i always used to think, a small bait will allow me to catch the small fish as well as the large fish. well, i never caught anything large.

so this year i fished big wood, and started catching way more fish and way bigger than in the past.

[beachwalker]

yea,

to not waste my time fishing with the local contributor to OTW.

He's useless (seriously)....


also to be nice to good fisherman from the mainland because they are very generous with their plugs and technique.

[Karl F]

Originally Posted by spence

Would you change your freakin avatar...PLEASE!!!



-spence

poor fellah can't help how he looks.


CS, I dunno, improvise, I guess would sum it up best, and the game has changed on the sand over the last 4-5 years. lot more running, can't marry a spot, or a half mile of sand, any more, and have it produce consistently.
Also, lures, custom, or mass produced, are just blank canvas, they can all change for the better, sometime you just have to look hard at them, to see what needs to change.
Also, time... older I get, seems the less I got.

[Diggin Jiggin]

I've learned to think a lot more about what I'm doing and trying to pick up on what's working and what's not. Mostly it's common sense. I also try to think about my failures and why they've happened. Unfortunately I've lost 3 of the biggest 4 fish I've hooked this year, but each taught a lesson.

I fished teasers for the first time this year during June and july, and I bet it doubled my catch rate but you do get a lot of smaller fish. I had one day with 20+ fish on a teaser, none on the plug). I think in a mixed school the small fish get to the teaser before the big boys can get to the plug.

Drifting danny's way out in a rip can be a lot of fun, and if you get it in the right place you can let the current do the work and you only reel when you feel the plug stop working as it drifts thru the backside.

On a beach I'm trying to keep the fish in front of me fighting it side to side walking the beach, instead of trying to keep my spot in the corwd by fighting it up and down. I'm also fishing a looser drag. Which of course has to be 100% opposite of what's working for me in the canal. Plant feet, Clamp down the drag, and fight em up and down. (Side to side they get ya down into the rocks and if you try and walk em you will fall on your butt.)

When fishing in eddy of which there are many in the canal, where the water goes in opposite directions depending on how far from shore the fish is, you have to be ready for that fish to get in the back eddy and come flying by you going the other way... Lost 2 really good ones 10 feet from shore that way...

I've also come up with a bunch of plug building 'tricks' to keep my hands out of the epoxy, but that's for another forum...

[NIB]

A high fiber diet gets me out the door quicker in the mornin
Them sluggo's can be prretty tricky.

[NEXT2NUN]

Yes I did.1. Yellow flash RULES!!!
2. Stripers will swim way up into fresh water to eat Peanut Bunker

[TheRattBoy]

Ealier in the season , fishing when the herring are around in big numbers...I fished one of my homemade swimming pikies and it really weeded out the smaller fish (26" down). Think I only took one or two that weren't keepers on it. Thought that was interesting...

"Parrott" color works day or NIGHT ...

[PNG]

Originally Posted by capesams

tricks this fishing season..care to share them with us?

So yer turning tricks huh?

Thats where I have found the NEW. Its in the turning.... "tricks" so to speak.

[Tagger]

Not really a trick ... just a new love fishing rocks ...10' Lami tri flex ,7500 nautil gv pro and key to this and must have is Berkley 30lb. Iron Silk . I can throw a bomber or 3 ounces with this and horse fish in without braid in rocks break off ..

[Raven]

Originally Posted by spence

Would you change your freakin avatar...PLEASE!!!



-spence

the way back machine........................

[maddog2020]

I learned NOT to ignore a local freshwater river for stripers during the herring run. Went last yr and the banks were PACKED - guess these people knew something I didn't. Heard one guy say he sees more people fishing there than the Canal ..... LOL. Learned a lot this yr and started catching some respectible fish.

Started using pencil poppers in a non standard way for me at least: "walking the dog" works surprizingly well.

Break the mold - use to fish certain times relative to tide in areas. Caught fish when I though I shouldn't - go figure?! Go out and fish - better to be out than watching tv or hanging out online. :P

Lots of fun to trade/barter for fishing gear. Who needs cash?!

I hate Mondays!