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03-13-2010, 10:38 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,692
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Bobbers?!?
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03-13-2010, 11:16 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 2,939
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When I was a kid and the state pier in Fall River was open we would float large sand-worms with a bobber into the bow of the big battleship. It was on every time. We would catch tons of fish up to 20lbs. The chunks on the bobber were also a big hit there. Incoming to slack was the best. HUGE Tog on the connecting pier also. But those days are way over. But thanks to this bobber post I have a great simple idea that may produce some good fish this year. K-I-S-S. We'll see. BTW it was nice to hear those drags bragging in the video.
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03-14-2010, 06:00 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Routine for swimming herring from a shallow beach. Guys put lights in them.
Works with eels, too.
Bait is bait.
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03-14-2010, 06:18 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
Routine for swimming herring from a shallow beach. Guys put lights in them.
Works with eels, too.
Bait is bait.
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WHAAAAAAATT??? How would you know this stuff? |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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03-14-2010, 06:50 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: cape cod when my meds r workin right
Posts: 1,412
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Back Beach
WHAAAAAAATT??? How would you know this stuff?
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he would hide in the woods at the canal and watch the ladyfisherguys sling live herrin into the canal , while repeating wood is good...  thats what flap told me.  ... |
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03-14-2010, 07:15 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: RockVegas
Posts: 3,228
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I've seen this video before. Nice to watch it again to get the juices flowing. We used to use balloons on live bait. Same thing though.
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The future ain't what it used to be. --Yogi Berra
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03-14-2010, 08:55 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Boy, that's an interesting concept....I wonder if you could catch blackfish that way...  |
"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.
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03-14-2010, 09:14 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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i bought several from the people from down south at MSBA, gonna sling me some shad or macks under them
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03-14-2010, 09:35 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 5,705
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Crafty Angler
Boy, that's an interesting concept....I wonder if you could catch blackfish that way... |
Of course not,that would be absurd. |
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03-14-2010, 09:36 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 5,705
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WESTPORTMAFIA
When I was a kid and the state pier in Fall River was open we would float large sand-worms with a bobber into the bow of the big battleship. It was on every time. We would catch tons of fish up to 20lbs. The chunks on the bobber were also a big hit there. Incoming to slack was the best. HUGE Tog on the connecting pier also. But those days are way over. But thanks to this bobber post I have a great simple idea that may produce some good fish this year. K-I-S-S. We'll see. BTW it was nice to hear those drags bragging in the video.
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Used to do the same thing at the Melville pier. |
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03-14-2010, 09:40 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Quote:
Originally Posted by basswipe
Of course not,that would be absurd.
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Yeah, you're probably right, Norm... 
Hey, how ya doin'...  |
"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.
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03-14-2010, 10:06 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 5,705
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Crafty Angler
Yeah, you're probably right, Norm...
Hey, how ya doin'... |
Living.
Really need some outdoor time that requires me to have a fishing rod in my hands. |
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03-14-2010, 10:44 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 2,939
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Quote:
Originally Posted by basswipe
Used to do the same thing at the Melville pier.
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Melville was a blast as a kid. |
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03-14-2010, 10:44 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: To close to water for my insanity
Posts: 884
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I use to do real well floating green crabs under a bobber in both nauset inlet and the back river in weymouth. I've caught many mid 20 to 30lb fish this way back in my bait days
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offthehookfishing.com
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03-14-2010, 12:21 PM
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Too old to give a....
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,505
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One of the biggest bass I have ever seen was caught by a guy who spiked a rod in the front of his truck with a bobber the size of an apple, and an eel.
He just sat inside drinking and listening to C & W till the rod went off.
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May fortune favor the foolish....
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03-14-2010, 01:53 PM
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Eels
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cape Cod,MA.
Posts: 3,333
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WESTPORTMAFIA
When I was a kid and the state pier in Fall River was open we would float large sand-worms with a bobber into the bow of the big battleship. It was on every time. We would catch tons of fish up to 20lbs. The chunks on the bobber were also a big hit there. Incoming to slack was the best. HUGE Tog on the connecting pier also. But those days are way over. But thanks to this bobber post I have a great simple idea that may produce some good fish this year. K-I-S-S. We'll see. BTW it was nice to hear those drags bragging in the video.
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He thinks the same rule applies to plugs  |
Live bait sharp hooks and timing is all you need
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03-14-2010, 03:27 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 2,939
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 5/0
He thinks the same rule applies to plugs |
I hope you don't ask me to use one of my bobbers |
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03-15-2010, 03:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 5,705
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WESTPORTMAFIA
Melville was a blast as a kid.
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You ain't kidding.My love of fishing was born there. |
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03-15-2010, 07:30 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Union,NJ
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Down south we use spreads of 8 to 12 rods, half with eels on bobbers at various depths. What you have to understand is these are transitory fish traveling at various depths. Eels naturally swim down. We fish depths of 100 plus feet, suspending eels at 5,10,15,20,30 ft... The bass might be traveling in the top 10,20,30 ft of the water column... You must keep an open mind and understand what the fish are doing. I have caught many 30,40 lb class fishing eels on bobbers..... It's a different game down south.
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03-15-2010, 07:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Union,NJ
Posts: 989
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By the way I in no way enjoy fishing this way, but it does put trophy bass in the boat... I do enjoy drifting egg sacs with bobbers for steelhead. The bobber changes the presentation of the egg sac, it is deadly and produces...
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03-16-2010, 08:06 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 2,038
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Bait for Stripers...
It's for old farts and little kids. 
Real men plug.  |
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03-16-2010, 01:14 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 352
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CowHunter
Down south we use spreads of 8 to 12 rods, half with eels on bobbers at various depths. What you have to understand is these are transitory fish traveling at various depths. Eels naturally swim down. We fish depths of 100 plus feet, suspending eels at 5,10,15,20,30 ft... The bass might be traveling in the top 10,20,30 ft of the water column... You must keep an open mind and understand what the fish are doing. I have caught many 30,40 lb class fishing eels on bobbers..... It's a different game down south.
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how do ya "fix" or "set" the bobber on the line 20 feet up? and still reel in the line? ok, so i'm dumb! |
"never met a bluefish i wouldn't sell"
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03-16-2010, 03:05 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Lincoln, RI
Posts: 621
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Quote:
Originally Posted by maddmatt
how do ya "fix" or "set" the bobber on the line 20 feet up? and still reel in the line? ok, so i'm dumb!
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Use a breakaway bobber. There are a few different designs but they basically work like a shark float. I use pool noodle sections and rubber bands. |
Best regards,
Roger
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03-16-2010, 10:01 PM
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Too old to give a....
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,505
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Bobbers are for girlie men.
When no one is watching saltys egg bobbers are a cool way to drift off the beach with an offshore wind. |
May fortune favor the foolish....
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