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09-23-2004, 04:17 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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Proper Retrieve For A Surf Howdy?
Having never fished one and since I just ordered one from Joe Lyons, do any of you have some insight into the technique for using them properly?  I am guessing you twitch them with a moderate retrieve speed?  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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09-23-2004, 04:21 PM
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Registered User
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Get them to walk to dog and they are pissah.Short twitches and only real up the slack line. Kinda like twitch, twitch,maybe two turns of the real, twitch twitch, etc...There are a ton of ways to fish them though but this is what I have had best luck with.
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09-23-2004, 04:36 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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Thats what I thought....  thanks RR2!  |
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09-23-2004, 04:51 PM
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Registered Grandpa
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BF you could also ask Bernzy or BM,he has trashed more then a few  |
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09-23-2004, 04:53 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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I tried pm'ing a couple of folks but their boxes were full!  Good idea though, maybe Bernzy or BM will instruct further. |
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09-23-2004, 05:01 PM
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Registered Grandpa
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Add Flaptail to your list.
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09-23-2004, 05:09 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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Flaptail was the one with the full pm box! |
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09-23-2004, 06:36 PM
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Dave's Guide Service
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just reel the thing in and shut up
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Pro Tool Club....
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09-23-2004, 07:22 PM
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09-23-2004, 08:43 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by bassmaster
just reel the thing in and shut up
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but, do you reel in and THEN shut up, or do you first shut up and THEN reel. or is it both at same time ?
please elaborate .
They look & dance real nice even in a heavy current, cant wait to try them out . |
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09-23-2004, 08:46 PM
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viva the plug-o-lution
Join Date: May 2002
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like a pencil popper!
you can work em subsurface too!! they walk the dog under the water if you hold the tip real low |
live to fish. fish to live. rod tips high.
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09-23-2004, 08:57 PM
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Fish "one of God's gifts to us"
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Quote:
Originally posted by bassmaster
just reel the thing in and shut up
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A M E N !! Try every conceivable thing you can. and when you figure out what works, just forget about it because it never will work again |
"Fish, just one of God's gifts to us."
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09-24-2004, 05:42 AM
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The best retreive is like RiverRat says just walk the dog. ZIG-ZAG, ZiG-Zag. I found the prefect combo for them was an 8 foot medium action St. Croix Tidemaster conventional trigger stick and a Shimano GT-100 Conventional reel. I loaded the reel with Stealth 30 pound braid and using a ball bearing swivel with a 3 foot hunk of 40 lb. Fluorocarbon and a breakaway 50 pound clip. Don't listen to BASSMASTER! All he caught on them was bluefish and that is not a good test of what this plug can do. I have taken near a 100 bass this past two weeks on that plug and some of them were very large. ( Ask the guy who owns the Orvis Shop in Mashpee he was a witness) It has even outfished my beloved Beachmaster Dannys. My friend George, who fished with me this week, and is a vetran Elizabeth Islands fisherman, a doctor at Falmouth Hospital, and a surface plug nut, ordered 6 from Joe Lyons the day after our trip to the islands after seeing what that plug can do. I give it the Plug of the year award! |
Why even try......... 
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09-24-2004, 08:21 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
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If you fish the Howdy with your rod tip down with short twitches on the retrieve it will dart for ya too - but I mostly fish it topwater walking it back and forth and like Flap said, it works real well - walking the blurple crackleback was working on bass at false dawn a coupla mornings ago -
As of yesterday, Bernzy is here in RI for a little fishing R&R -
I'll probably hear from him in the next few days - I don't know if he's near a computer yet but I'll pass this along to him -
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"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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09-24-2004, 10:03 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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Thanks guys! |
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09-24-2004, 03:56 PM
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Dave's Guide Service
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shut up flap all u get is blue fish
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Pro Tool Club....
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09-25-2004, 04:01 AM
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Registered User
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Could someone kindly post info for ordering from Joe Lyons.
Thanks
Bob
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09-25-2004, 07:09 AM
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Dave's Guide Service
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The plug works great there are many ways to work it and You can bend the eye horizontal to tune the lure to do other pop diving actions.
I work mine with alot of commotion like a pencil and then I will work it with short controlled jerks with a minute pause and then cycle through till I get fishon the lure.........
Flaptail woke Me out of My beauty sleep |
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09-25-2004, 07:15 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Glassguy
Could someone kindly post info for ordering from Joe Lyons.
Thanks
Bob
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http://www.surfcasting-rhodeisland.com/ |
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1984 was a warning, not a guidebook!
It's time more people spoke up with the truth. Every time we let a leftist lie go uncorrected, the commies get stronger.
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09-25-2004, 12:29 PM
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Keep The Change
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Order them quick.
Joe has got a beautiful tackle stash  better than most shops........ |
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09-26-2004, 06:12 AM
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Registered User
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Why even try.........
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09-26-2004, 07:22 AM
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Super Moderator
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steve i just got in |
The United States Constitution does not exist to grant you rights; those rights are inherent within you. Rather it exists to frame a limited government so that those natural rights can be exercised freely.
1984 was a warning, not a guidebook!
It's time more people spoke up with the truth. Every time we let a leftist lie go uncorrected, the commies get stronger.
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09-26-2004, 07:28 AM
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Dave's Guide Service
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Quote:
Originally posted by Slipknot
steve i just got in
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no I just got in |
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09-26-2004, 01:24 PM
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surfcasting is NOT a crime
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Fish ARE here, last night was PISSAH, ALL on wood too johnny |
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