what was your top lure for 2008

[rwilhelm]

Originally Posted by steve

Cocahoe in april til mid may then rigged eels up until last night. Start day fishing now with the cocahoe again til the end.

IMO it is the best schoolie lure there is. I have also caught some bigger fish on them but not many.

[steve]

rwilhelm, The cocahoe is THE best I've ever used for schoolies. I hear it works on bigger fish and that the queen size is good also. The 3" pearl is something else though! It is the only thing I use in the spring.

[Clogston29]

qnty : blurple a-salt

qlty: black / gold bigwater jointed diver

[steve]

K-E-V-I-N- That wild color on the Tattoo - Someone gave me a small surface swimmer in that color and I laughed at it as I put it in my bag. About two weeks later I was fishing and catching pretty good when I tried to find something in my bag that they wouldn"T HIT. Well I put on this tattoo danny with the wild color combo and continued to hawk the fish until the hooks were mangled. I went home , changed the hooks and have been catching fish on it all season. One night I had a 28 pounder on it right at dark before switching to eels.

[rwilhelm]

Originally Posted by steve

rwilhelm, The cocahoe is THE best I've ever used for schoolies. I hear it works on bigger fish and that the queen size is good also. The 3" pearl is something else though! It is the only thing I use in the spring.

Yup pearl is my favorite color too. About 8 years ago I was fishing Middlebridge and not catching anything. An old timer came up to me as I was leaving and handed me a cocahoe. He said try these next time you go. Well sure enough I did and I caught fish after fish. Really nice guy named Ernie, he was the one that introduced the cocahoe to south county. I think he is still fishing, I believe I saw him in Sept fishing the wall in gansett.

[FishermanTim]

The same old reliable lure as in the past 5 years:
Black or "eel colored" 9" Slug-go on a 1oz. jig.
Although this year was interrupted by a nagging knee problem, I was able (and am still able) to finish out the season.

On a side note, I tried a different line this year. It's a relatively inexpensive braid that I picked up at a Foxborough sporting goods store ( called P-Line. It's held up fantastically, and hasn't failed me yet. After trying (and regretting it) Spiderwire, as well as Fireline, I graduated to PowerPro, but it can be a little cost prohibitive when spooling multiple reels. The P-Line braid has the best of both worlds:
reliable, durable braid that doesn't breakdown and unwind like the forementioned ones, and is affordable. I'm sure there are quite a few brands that are equal, if not better in quality, but for the type of fishing I'm engaged in, it has been a roaring success.

[Nocturnal 1]

One of my own,a red head danny. In terms of both quality and quantity.

[l.i.fish.in.vt]

yellow/white needle fish on the Cape,and nylon hair bucktails on LI

[Sea Flat]

7" Bone Hogy. I caught more fish than ever this year and 90% of them were on the Hogy rigged texas style.

[bart]

big shads
secret 3oz shad
mack cordell pencil

[Little Round]

I have done better with my rubber(got stryper) than anything else all season. At the start of the season I got rid of every other soft plastic on my boat, other than my own and have had my best season to date. From top water bass, tuna, jigging on light tackle in the rip, jigging for tuna, albies.

[Bronko]

Originally Posted by Little Round

I have done better with my rubber(got stryper) than anything else all season. At the start of the season I got rid of every other soft plastic on my boat, other than my own and have had my best season to date. From top water bass, tuna, jigging on light tackle in the rip, jigging for tuna, albies.

Actually I really didn't consider rubber, for some reason I thought it was a "plug" post. Alan's rubber is unbelievable. It killed in the rips off Chatham, in Boston Harbor and was deadly this October for me in the canal. I have witnesses where it just plain crushed other rubber. The bass get pissed off at the mere sight of it. I would seriously consider picking some of his stuff up for a test run at your favorite spot. I don't do as much tuna fishing as a few guys on here, but I know the tuna love it too.

[Back Beach]

Originally Posted by Sea Flat

7" Bone Hogy. I caught more fish than ever this year and 90% of them were on the Hogy rigged texas style.

Those are going in my bag for next year and will be used in a very particular place. I ran into one of the OTW editors while fishing one morning and he was doing a job on the fish with the same rig you mention. I think he had the 9" version though.

[Sea Flat]

Originally Posted by Back Beach

Those are going in my bag for next year and will be used in a very particular place. I ran into one of the OTW editors while fishing one morning and he was doing a job on the fish with the same rig you mention. I think he had the 9" version though.

He was probably using either the 10" original or the 10" double wide. The double wides cast like crazy and have a huge profile for larger fish. The double wide is my second favorite Hogy. Good Luck

[hcraig]

redneck 2oz pencil

[makomania]

CC Pencil Popper 5"

Live Bunker - not much beats it

[rickhern]

Wonderbread bomber(thanks Milo) - when nothing else worked
2 oz. Choopy needle - killed with this
SS Lttleneck - amazing in the canal, let it sink a bit, the twitch.