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TheSpaniard

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  1. Sad story. I won’t go out in the yak alone and even then there’s a lot you need to have thought out in advance just in case the worst happens.
  2. Since it’s being discussed…. When they determine the levels of contaminated, they take the entire fish and blender it up into goop, which they test. The point here is that the vast majority of the contaminates are found in the skin, red meat along the lateral line, and in the fishes head. If you fillet the fish, cut off the skin and the red meat, what you actually eat is way less contaminated than what the tests show. some people do eat it all and those are the ones taking big risks.
  3. Well I must be crazy. Gonna hit the outgoing tonight…..
  4. If you cut out the red meat, don’t eat the skin, or make fish head soup, you are probably fine. Those are the areas the vast majority of toxins are stored in a fish. I don’t keep that many stripers anymore but I’ve taken my fair share of fish over the last 20 years. I personally never noticed much of a difference between spring, summer, fall or whether the fish were eating different types of bait. That said, I don’t eat the red meat, skin, or head……
  5. Had a friend share some pics of a trip out of Barnegate last week. They were out for some bottom fishing and apparently ran into some feeding stripers on the way in. Fish were 30-36” class. Can’t say I have ever heard of this for Feb in Jersey ocean waters but times are strange…..
  6. Only a few guys 15 years back were building plugs trying to make a living off it. Guys like Hab’s, Tattoo, RM Smith, to name a few. The majority of other guys did it for other reasons outside of a business sense. I used to make plugs a long time back and if guys truly charged what they end up putting into their plugs they would cost even more than what you see today. A lot of the guys 15 years back may have paid with their health and even lives working with solvents, paints, and dangerous epoxies….. many people don’t associate that with the number of guys that passed away during that period. I only say the prices today are unfortunate because it does attract in some not so great behaviors. Guys making plugs that don’t swim for example is rampant again. I saw the same thing 15 years back as we saw a similar demand wave for plugs back then. Is what it is though.
  7. Unf the price of plugs has doubled along with everything you buy out there. 40 is the new 20 and 30 is a bargain price anymore….. it sucks! I do fish with 30-40$ plugs today. 10 years back I would puke at that thought. I collected a lot of plugs from 15 years or so back. The stuff out there today imo is more along the lines to fish with. Most of the stuff being made today is being done in much higher quantities and is more readily available. A lot of the stuff I used to collect you could only get at a single flea market per year……
  8. Do you remember the last year Gary did the show and the chaos that ensued when guys with Lefty tickets went to Gary’s table first that morning. It was a different scene back then. I also remember the year that Twisted showed up with a table full of 50$ plugs and all the other plugmakers were scoffing at the price and by the end of the show they sold every last one. That was the moment they all realized they could sell their plugs for a lot more…..
  9. Im gonna rig them the same way they are shown rigged on his site. Thought I might already have the jig heads needed, but if not it’s another excuse to stop at a shop.
  10. Was my first time to be able to make Surf Day. Seems like I always had something in my way to make the show. Anyway, it was a great show. Lots of excited fishermen wondering from table to table. I was one of those guys who got in line early back in the day for Asbury and Berkley. The quality of plug makers out there is fantastic and walking in around 10 there was plenty of great options. I grabbed a few different plugs from makers I had been following to give a try this year. I’m not sure if it could be done but man I would have loved a 30-60 min session of Bob The Garbage Man talking. Heard rumors he would be there but never saw him.
  11. If you mean the white and olive ones, those are Green Head gliders.
  12. I kinda think it’s funny how many guys seem to think the daytime bite we have experienced in NJ the last 2 falls is even remotely normal. It isn’t and anyone lucky enough to be out there catching fish with the sun over your head and sand under your feet should count the blessings. I guess it really all depends on what type of fishing you like. Night time fishing is clearly off with such great daytime bites. You really have to keep jumping around from town to town at times to hit these bites. I had days where I started at the Hook and hopped all the way down to IBSP and ended up back at the Hook later in the day….. the driving sucked for sure but I’ll be darned if we didn’t find a solid blitz every single time……. It certainly doesn’t feel like “fishing”. When this pattern breaks when the peanuts either leave early or their upswing cycle reverts we will loose all of this daytime fishing from the surf. So enjoy it while you can. The one thing I have learned all these years fishing the surf is that eventually it always changes and you gotta be willing to change too.
  13. I’ll stand corrected as I thought they were part of the YOY survey as I wasn’t aware of any other surveys being conducted in that body of water. This was the NJ side of the Raritan. I have encountered this exact boat with different crews each year the past 4. This was my closest encounter, but I’m normally within 100 yards of them when out yak fishing. This was also by far the worst crew yet. Maybe it is just some Rutgers program that doesn’t actually publish any results.
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