Here's a short video I call "Tautog Gone Wild - Togarama"
Yesterday I kayaked my way out to a favorite tog and striper area; the visibility was mixed (some clear pockets but a lot of snot in the water that only got worst as the tide started to ebb) but there were lots of leather lips in all the usual places. This is but a fraction of the footage I'm putting together for my winter seminar series.
Let me know what your thoughts are on the footage.
John, is it possible to embed a Facebook video...the HD quality is whole lot better?
When you see the big school of white chinners I would estimate that most of the fish were over five-pounds with a few in the six to seven-pound range. The one in the still picture was all of seven and perhaps eight pounds. I have larger ones on video that I'm saving for the winter.
It won't be long before old Crafty sniffs this post out and Bloocrab shouldn't be far behind.
Shame on you, Mike...putting Portagee porno on this website...
Oh man...that is awesome, great footage....:
So, the big tog...how much would it cost a guy to get a 2x3' poster for his tackle room...
Well, at least a screensaver, anyway
Peixe belo y gordo, man...
"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.
Schoolies...
wake me up when you find some 10-12's
Joking. nice video!
Bryan
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Not trying to spot burn ,but was this in buzzards bay, north shore, south shore, CCbay? Awsome clip. Didnt know you could even see that far around hear
Those tog were swimming somewhere off the rock islands on Sakonnet Point. To get that kind of visibility and that many fish in one spot you have to be on the water just after first light with an incoming tide near high and several days without big waves or rain...it doesn't happen all that often.
Crafty,
I'll work up a tog poster/screensaver you can put right next to Farrah's.
Yesterday, I tried kayaking Brentons, but due to the high wind I had to settle for Price's Neck and the Goosberry Island area. Tog and bass everywhere you would expect them...think suds or think deep.
RI Rockhound,
Those were far from 'schoolies' (wide angle lens) but certainly not the double digit pigs we all seek...to see those you'll have to attend a seminar These peep shows I put up never feature the A++ talent -- any old farts out there remember Busty Rusty?
I'll work up a tog poster/screensaver you can put right next to Farrah's.
Muito obrigado, Miguel
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any old farts out there remember Busty Rusty?
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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.
That's very cool footage. I've only recently been introduced to your films. I just ordered Secrets of the Striper Pros and I'm very much looking forward to it.
When and where are the winter seminars?
How deep would you say you were...<10 ft? I usually don't start tog fishing until late Sept..early Oct... but then again there's lots to be learned.
For the last few years I have really appreciated closing out the fishing season toggin. Wonderful fish, great fight, and tasty to boot. There is something about the simplicity of putting a crab you caught on a hook in the rocks and pulling one of these bruisers out on a cool fall morning. Nothing complicated...no spreader bars, chunking mess, wrestling with eels at night....just a crab, a hook and a sinker on the rocks. I am already looking forward to the end of the derby and going toggin now!
Just checked out his website, AWSOME i a deff buying his dvds.
I'll tell ya what, if you didn't see Mike's presentation last winter at the East Bay Angler's Show, you really missed it
Big bass in the wild, up close and personal and footage of the Reef carpeted in blackfish - for middle-aged fish-heads it was like being in one of those old XXX theaters in the Combat Zone, the audience was mesmerized...thank God I had my jacket over my lap during the show...
"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.
These peep shows I put up never feature the A++ talent -- any old farts out there remember Busty Rusty?
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...it finally happened, there are no more secret spots
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