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12-17-2006, 12:18 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: south shore , ma
Posts: 669
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squid bars
its that time of year to start buying gear for next year . i need to get some squid bars , due to space limitions (18cc) and and realisticly only being able to fish two lines (fishing alone) i want to get 2-3 bars , i was thinking of getting 1 black (hot color last year) but not sure of other colors , also who has the best squid bars without breaking the bank , any help would be appreacated , thanks
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12-17-2006, 12:26 PM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
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1 black 1 purple 1 pink
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Ski Quicks Hole
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12-17-2006, 03:34 PM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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fishermans outfitters bars. buy one for 75 bucks then copy it.
black bars and orange worked best for us this year.
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12-17-2006, 04:22 PM
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Spot Preserver
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Mansfield
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I have to agree with Freak. Orange is a go to color for my boat.
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Make America Great Again.
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12-17-2006, 05:19 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Landlocked in my own prison
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Me too. Fishermans Outfitters is the place to go. We did well on brown as well as black bars from FO this year. Buy early because they ran out of some colors this summer.
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"Love is like a snowmobile racing across the tundra then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
Matt Groening, Life In Hell
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12-17-2006, 07:51 PM
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Take a Kid Fishing
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 681
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Reeldragingtackle.com has some nice Green Machine bars that I've been stocking up on... Can I wrap them and put them under the tree to me from Santa and get away with it
Merry Christmas to all...
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AMAMC.COM
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12-17-2006, 08:00 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: The Gotofish
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Big Jay here on the site makes mean squid bars.
Last edited by Gotofish; 12-18-2006 at 08:47 AM..
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Ed
"I caught you a delicious Bass."-Napolean Dynamite
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12-18-2006, 12:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
Posts: 5,659
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Best bars I've seen were the Canyon Runner bars or Fred Archer's Bars.
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12-18-2006, 02:43 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Plymouth, Ma
Posts: 1,405
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If your up for it theres some $ to be saved rigging your own.
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12-18-2006, 04:45 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
Posts: 5,659
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Quote:
Originally Posted by stripersnipr
If your up for it theres some $ to be saved rigging your own.
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But you still need some good bars to start with. |
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12-18-2006, 05:32 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: East Prov RI
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I'm gonna buy a black bar and an orange bar, what color stingers would you guys go with?
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12-18-2006, 10:28 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: 14000 / 44031.5
Posts: 932
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gotofish
Big Jay here on the site makes mean squid bars.
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Thanks for the plug, Ed. SaltwaterEdge carries my bars - I use 9" squids on high speed bars as well as 6" jet bars and mini-green machine bars -- I actually get my squid and bars from the same Distributor as Canyon Runner (the guy MMIKe is talking about).
You can't go wrong with the fisherman's outfitter bars - they are very good quality, and catch well. I have about 15 or so of the same ones (same squid, I just buy them wholesale and rig them myself-similiar set-up). I use both the 13's and 18's - Their patterns have been used for years with great results.
If anyone has any of the old school moldcraft still around - those really raise fish. I remember the first year they came out (like '83, I was 11) Frank Johnson was selling them out of the back of his station wagon in the Barnstable Harbor parking lot - they were $100 back then and my dad could only afford 1, but they were the sh*t - those things were deadly, they just get destroyed if a bluefish even looks at them. I've got a bunch of old ones in the basement that I'm going to rig up this winter just for kicks. |
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12-19-2006, 09:13 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
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Jay,
I think I still have some of them around. How you gonna rig them, on a bar or as a daisy chain?
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12-19-2006, 10:40 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: 14000 / 44031.5
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I think I'll do a full bar - that way when the first school of bluefish comes up and absolutely destroys them, I'll remember why technology is a good thing, and I'll put the shell squids back out.
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12-19-2006, 11:31 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
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Quote:
Originally Posted by big jay
I think I'll do a full bar - that way when the first school of bluefish comes up and absolutely destroys them, I'll remember why technology is a good thing, and I'll put the shell squids back out.
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I'd probably go as Bat $hit as the first time it happened to me!  |
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12-22-2006, 08:26 PM
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Southsider
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Bass River, Mass.
Posts: 1,226
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We have a pink 13" Fisherman's Outfitter bar that never swam right all season long, it would swim sideways, roll on itself from time to time, generally marched to the beat of it's own drum.... but with God as my witness, that rig was dealy this season. We called it Retardo Rig and it brought them in for some reason....if it ain't broke, why fix it?! Can't wait for July!
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12-23-2006, 07:30 AM
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Take a Kid Fishing
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 681
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Good looking dog... I just added a second to my pen yesterday...
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AMAMC.COM
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12-23-2006, 04:10 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Landlocked in my own prison
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By the way, I was at Fishermans Outfitters in Gloucester this past week and was speaking with the owner. You should see the new half beek bars they have made. They are rigged like the squid bars but use either 9 or 10 inch rubber ballyhoo. The owner had the kid working there make or invent one this past summer because of all of the half beeks around and the bar did very well. It's new for the 2007 catalog. He also has a new supplier for the wooden birds for 2007.
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"Love is like a snowmobile racing across the tundra then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
Matt Groening, Life In Hell
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12-24-2006, 09:47 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Quincy
Posts: 4,145
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Agreed, buy one then make your own. I've bought 1 and made 4.
Mine work very well and we got fish on all of them.
Just shop around and buy the parts and tools. Even ebay worked well for me.
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12-24-2006, 12:16 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Lakeville MA
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I just went to FO in plymouth yesterday and it is truly a guys candy shop.. cant beat the prices either...plus if you have a special request they can make it up for you in shop
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12-24-2006, 01:18 PM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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i'm not allowed to go in there anymore  |
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