What is...........

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Your favorite method of Striper fishing and why? I love to plug fish from the beach. I know I pissed a lot of people off lately with my views on certain methods of yanking bass from the suds but if you think that was bad you didn't know me while I spent the better part of a decade just flyfishing for them. I was obnoxious ( hard to beleive I could be more obnoxious than I am now I know). Rod and reelers were Neanderthals too me. Now I have gone back to the same but I think with a bit of more finesse. Certainly my flyfishing (which I have taken up again but in moderation) taught me things that can be applied to my rod and reel fishing, adding to my being able to reach back and find a certain something that enables me to be succesful on nights when most aren't as lucky ( and luck does play a role, to what degree is left up for debate).

I am currently in the mode of thought that being able to get a bass to eat a piece of wood of hunk of plastic takes more ability than heaving a chunk of bait, dead or alive, into the brine. Who knows, next year I could be the chosen disciple of live bait again. But for right now it's plugs, this year being the year of the needle. I am enjoying success far beyond my wildest dreams this season ( DZ would be proud) they aren't all monsters but there have been a fair share. Mostly it's the catching most every time I go out no matter where or when this year. Is it just being confident in what I am using. Certainly I have stopped carrying 30 pounds of plugs that 99% of will never taste salt each night. Also, I have been fishing with a couple of guys who have renewed my faith that there are people just as whacky as I am about it. Numbskull being one and Alan Cordts being the other. These two guys are some of the best there are and I think a little is being rubbed off on me, luckily for me.

So, whatever blows yer skirt up let's hear it and I promise to be more open minded, no comments just curiosity.