Good Breachway lures? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Skip N · 09-12-2005, 10:43 PM

I'm curious what some of you guys use for plugs when fishing the ends of breachways. I want to fish SoCo alot more this fall but i'm not sure what some of the better plugs would be for the deeper breachway type water. I've got my plug selection down for normal beach/ bay water but this deep water is all new to me! any suggestions and help is appreciated as always!

cheferson · 09-13-2005, 04:55 AM

Bucktails

bart · 09-13-2005, 06:52 AM

darters, metal-lips, jointed bombers, bucktails.

Joe · 09-13-2005, 07:07 AM

Depends if you going to fish the rotation at night, fish the insides, use it as jetty to fish the corners, fish the back pond, etc......There are many approaches to breachway fishing.
Drifting live eels on the outgoing tide is the most cost effective method for those who are new to it. Try to get a feel for the breachway culture: i.e: sharing space, letting others drift, helping people, keeping your light off the water, doing your best not to foul others, etc. If you can hook up with a breachway veteran you can shave off a lot of the learning cure.

NIB · 09-13-2005, 07:18 AM

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I by no means am a breachway expert but there is a certain M.O. that goes on there.cast out at a 2 o'clock angle letting line out for specific count.then a slow retrieve In the sweeping current.Any plugs that will not pop out in a good current will work.Sometimes u can tune a metal lip to swim in a good current by bendin the eyelet up.an if u haveto bending the lip up will pull it down.it helps to be on the same page as the other guys fishin there.5 guys pluggin an one guy eelin is not good math.i suggest a daytime run to get the feel.then when u go at night pay close attention to what is goin on before u get in the rotation.

ThrowingTimber · 09-13-2005, 07:20 AM

Eels, yellow superstrike darter, black super strikes darters, 15 pounds of white bucktails, 25 pounds of black bucktails and their appropriate trailers, metal lips that will hold well in a ripping current, oh yeah and bucktails.

Tattoo · 09-13-2005, 08:02 AM

Metal lips that hang in the current, like these.........

About the plug - "Heavy seas and a rising tide can produce some excellent fishing. The problem is choosing a lure that can handle large surf. Tattoo's Tackle has the answer. The new Diving Swimmer is meant to do just that, dive and stay down. The sloped-head design causes the water to pass over the body rather than around it like traditional metal lip swimmers. Diving down to an average of two feet depending on conditions, you can now keep your offering in the strike zone rather than rolling down the front of a breaking wave. With the ability to bend the eye of the lure up, the Diving Swimmer has the ability to really go deep with depths of over 5 feet have been measured during testing. Whether your looking for a plug that can hang in the current while drifting a breachway, a plug to cast to feeding fish in 3 foot rollers, or a plug that can go deep along the ledge cliffs of Newport and Narragansett, Tattoo's new Diving Swimmer is the plug of choice"

Visit www.tattoostackle.com for more info about this one and all the other plugs.

JohnR · 09-13-2005, 08:10 AM

Plugs that will wiggle and stay down...

Quote:

Originally Posted by NIB

5 guys pluggin an one guy eelin is not good math.

What happens is 5 guys catching teen fish and the eel guy is getting the biggers

Seriously - there are a lot of drift issues form the tip:

how far across current you cast (hooking up with thr freindly other side)

Braid or mono

plugs:

light plugs, bombers et all can catch up to the lure before (give addequate time)

One thing to keep in mind about the breachways, once you get over 6-7-8 people, it becomes a charlie foxtrot. Too long between casts, sneaker people breaking their buttocks, hacks, line foul ups, a fish swimming up the breach and people still casting

, 40+ minutes between casts, oh yeh, and 2-3 pound bluefish stacked up in the gauntlet to intercept every offering...

The breachway experience, more often than not these days, is a gaggle-puke of people unprepared and crossing others up and not showing courtesy. People going down with 7 foot rods, people with sinkers and chunk bait, no regard for the rotation, especially on weekends.

People peesin' off the local landowners leaving trash, making noise, korker clanking up people's driveways (not that all L.O.s there are nice, most if not all should be respected), animate talking at 2 in the morning. Just a general disregard for anyone else...

The Iceman 6 · 09-13-2005, 08:18 AM

Ahhhhh the Breachways.......

NIB · 09-13-2005, 08:20 AM

[QUOTE=JohnR]Plugs that will wiggle and stay down...

What happens is 5 guys catching teen fish and the eel guy is getting the biggers

Thats easy U push him in an take his eels....
like johnny says...Its not a user friendly place.the few times I was there it was not to crowded the fishin wasn't spectacular either.
I can see where more tha 4 can really stink i don't like to wait.Line foulups.stink.If really crowded i would just foul everyone up till they all left..
One more serios note U gotta be respectfull of the rightofway there.I can see them shutting it down in a heartbeat.An theat would really stink.

Nebe · 09-13-2005, 08:42 AM

cant go wrong with a yozuri mag darter- i also like the schooolbus a-salt bomber
and all the other plugs mentioned.

bring a newspaper too. you will need something to do while waiting to cast.

dickmont · 09-13-2005, 01:16 PM

very good eben, i really liked the newspaper bit

TheRattBoy · 09-13-2005, 07:19 PM

No rotation this morning

Picked up one of Tattoo's diving swimmers today , thing is pissa in the current , of course with all the blues around, I didn't let it swim for to long

RLC100 · 09-13-2005, 08:51 PM

About two years ago I was lucky enough to share the end of the Wekpg Breachway with a family of tourists. They were going for snappers and I ended up gettin into a good size Blue Devil, it crossed all but one of ther lines (about five). Needless to say, they called me every name in the book, I think.
( Asian is not my specialty) So, to smooz things over I offerd my catch to them.
The dad came over to help me unhook this demon of the deep (one hand on his bucket, the other fist deep inside It's maw)
EEOWWWWWWWWCH muct be a universal word
We all had a good chuckle, especially his kids.
Hell of a nice guy, shared a couple of beers and a good lesson learned.
(Dont mess with the needles)