Doc is a lot like Daignault. His experience is in a very closed universe. Frank says no great fish are ever taken on poppers, and that bottle plugs are only worthwhile as casting weights for teasers.. Doc believes that the bucktailing techniques used in the shallow Long Island inlets are universally adaptable. Cast and bring in a bucktail on a slow steady retrieve in the Canal, and the biggest bass you'll ever catch is about 18".
The funniest thing that Doc ever wrote was that an angler would be undergunned using a Penn 750 SS
And by the way--swinging hooks hang up more than fixed hook, based on my experience fishing the Canal. I can hang a Crippled Herring a lot easier than I can hang a fixed hook bucktail.
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