Preseason Discussion #3: New Tactics / New Strategy

[Crafty Angler]

Hmmm....gonna try a new variation on the standard riggie involving a Pt Jude Wobblehead with a boneless breast of eel attached on a free-swinging hook

Talking to DZ over the winter and and watching him and Riggin' Rudy from the Edge do a couple of demos made me think......it's got potential, both shore and boat

Picked up a bunch more of the canal-style pencils over the winter and two new rods to fish them with...plan to fish metal-lips more this season, try a different rigging technique with Sluggos I saw Jim White do...

That and physical conditioning...last couple of years I'm starting to notice that the old carcass doesn't come back from the winter hiatus like it used to...

[Sea Flat]

I always find it tough to drive the boat pass a school of blues or dinky stripers crashing bait on top. Just too hard to pass up catching fish I know are there. But, let's face it, not going to catch a trophy in those conditions, at least not usually. I am going to attempt some better self discipline and head to where I plan/hope the bigguns will be.

gonna fish eels and BIG Hogy's for the trophys this year.

[MikeToole]

After years of fishing live eels, at the end of last year I started just fishing dead ones much of the time. This is fishing in water less than 10' with little current. Drown them when I first get them and put them in freezer bags and freeze them. Hook them in the normal live eel way and fish them slow but adding some movement. Had a very good fall season so I going to continue with this. Makes carrying and hooking easier and faster, especially when standing in rough water. Just re-freeze the ones you don't use.

[DZ]

Originally Posted by MikeToole

After years of fishing live eels, at the end of last year I started just fishing dead ones much of the time. This is fishing in water less than 10' with little current. Drown them when I first get them and put them in freezer bags and freeze them. Hook them in the normal live eel way and fish them slow but adding some movement. Had a very good fall season so I going to continue with this. Makes carrying and hooking easier and faster, especially when standing in rough water. Just re-freeze the ones you don't use.

Mike,
You stumbled upon the secret of Morto Anguilla! Good for you to figure it out.

DZ

[wader-dad]

I am going to try to fish more with Pikies this year. Sort of a Pikie revival going on.

[Back Beach]

I have a basement full of about 50 new plugs that need some abuse...pray for me, St. Numbskull...

[t.orlando]

Originally Posted by Back Beach

I have a basement full of about 50 new plugs that need some abuse...pray for me, St. Numbskull...

3-1 odds that most of them don't make it out of your basement

[sully12rng]

I get the dinks and Blues out of my system early when they first show up then just concentrate on big fish. I put away the light tackle all together and dont even bring it with me when I head south. BIG GUNS+BIG PLUGS+VAMPIRE MODE=BIG BASS.
SLEEP ALL DAY.......... FISH ALL NIGHT.