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05-29-2010, 09:16 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Pencils...easier than live bait?
I've often heard folks say live bait is cheating, but after careful reflection and observation for several seasons I believe a pencil is perhaps the easiest way to catch a fish, particularly a decent one....no catching bait, no mess, no live well, no getting up early, no jumping over fences and poaching herring...just cast the effing thing out, twitch it, and you're on... obviously there have to be fish available, but pencils are becoming the new googan technique of choice..even guys from Jersey can catch big fish with them  ...who's with me? |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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05-29-2010, 09:20 AM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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Other than rubber shads Pencils are a good choice
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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05-29-2010, 12:16 PM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tattoobob
Other than rubber shads Pencils are a good choice
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I've actually seen guys struggle with catching on shads, but never on pencils. I think its pencil-shad-eels in this order for ease of catching... |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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05-29-2010, 09:27 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: N.K.
Posts: 1,330
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I like pencils but the arms get sore after a while.Need an automatic pencil rod.  |
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05-29-2010, 09:31 AM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
Posts: 5,871
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Nah, Darters are easier.
Cast Retrieve
Cast Retrieve
Eben is proof of this.
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Ski Quicks Hole
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05-29-2010, 12:25 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,692
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Quote:
Originally Posted by likwid
Nah, Darters are easier.
Cast Retrieve
Cast Retrieve
Eben is proof of this.
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I give darters little pauses and change speed and also pump the rod. Darters are not easy. Needlefish are another story |
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05-29-2010, 01:31 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
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Pencils are easy on days when all you have to do is hit the water to raise a fish.
They're also easy to hook fish on--landing them is another story. They're second only to darters in giving the hooks a bad purchase in a fish's mouth.
They're also hook-straighteners if a fish gets everything just right.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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05-29-2010, 09:23 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,125
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why did it take you several seasons to figure this out?
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05-29-2010, 09:51 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 21
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we jersey guys have been fishing them for years state your case.
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05-29-2010, 12:16 PM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DENNIS STANK
state your case.
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I'm trying to raise the NIB. |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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05-29-2010, 10:53 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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not sure about easier to catch with, but a hell of a lot more fun. You get anything on those skinny ones yet? I have not.
I think you should be writing this about your rubber shad fishing not pencils  |
"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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05-29-2010, 11:25 AM
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None
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Newton, MA
Posts: 4,464
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I find it more fun and mobile for me to fish on the shore. If I was on the boat, I would prefer to liveline mackerels or anything. Either of them works fine for me, but I stick with lures.
I prefer spooks over pencils  |
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05-29-2010, 11:38 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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I have seen my share of guys who do not know how to properly work a pencil but could live line??? It ain't all that easy for those who do not know how to use them! Me likey pencils!
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Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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05-29-2010, 12:25 PM
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Curmudgeon
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Patchogue & NYC
Posts: 203
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Back Beach
but pencils are becoming the new googan technique of choice..even guys from Jersey can catch big fish with them ...who's with me? |
There's a reason they are called "Jersey Death Machines"  |
I'd rather be fishing! 
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05-30-2010, 05:45 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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nothing I do is ever easy
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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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06-01-2010, 11:41 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 492
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I love it all. I fish for stripers with Chunk bait, live lining, plugs, plastic and, maybe most of all, flies. Same with trout....this past weekend , here in Vermont, was fly fishing a very promising section of a river. An hour later I had tried 4-5 flies and had missed one. Back to the SUV where I grabbed my spin rod and a couple of large spoons and spinners. 10 minutes later WHAM, a 20 " brown hits a spoon as I'm working it through fast water. I missed another hard hit 5 minutes later. I had to go at that point, but if I had stayed and they weren't hitting any more I might have tried a crayfish or crawler. I just like fishing!
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06-01-2010, 12:15 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 1,008
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pencils? I am familiar with the pencil poppers, or when you guys say pencils do you mean these yozuri types i got?
i know how to work the pencil popper/ whats the technique with the yozuri style?
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06-01-2010, 02:19 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,125
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MotoXcowboy
pencils? I am familiar with the pencil poppers, or when you guys say pencils do you mean these yozuri types i got?
i know how to work the pencil popper/ whats the technique with the yozuri style?
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I think those might be more of a spook
fish with rod to side and twitch
Pencils are not that hard to work, get a Gibbs canal special and try that out. Or even one of Mikes and Cape Cod Tackle, his fish well. |
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