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  1. I haven’t had any issues with 12, 15, or 20 lb seagar blue label. But I fish a pretty light drag when I’m using 12 or 15. If I’m using 20, I buckle down a bit more. 


    I hate knot tying knots with flouro  though

  2. Last time out was Friday in Rhody. Sunrise produced lots of stripers schoolies to low 20 lbs.

     

    Late morning the albies showed up. I chased down the first good pod for nearly 3/4 of a mile before I finally caught up. Never a good idea to chase like I did. Likely would’ve done better hanging in one of a few different spots. Ended up casting into about 20 good feeds, had 7 or 8 bites, hooked 5, landed 4. All good size 27”+.   Bait was bay anchovies from snot size to decent 3 inchers.
     

    Feeds were only getting better as I got off the water at noon to make it home for daddy duty. Wife had a long distance wedding to attend. Won’t be able to make it out for the next 8 days. Hopefully the seasons still going strong.

  3. 7 hours ago, DEM Parking Lot said:

    Heard a 16lber was weighed in for the new RI record.

    I believe it will be considered a notable catch and not a state record. For whatever reason there is no such thing as a RI state record for false albacore. The powers that be do not consider it an eligible species

  4. Did very well with cape Albies in yesterday’s wind. 
     

    Change of scenery today, tried outfront RI in today’s glass calm conditions. Scored a Rhody funny fish slam: bullet tuna, chub mack, albies, bonito, and Spanish mack. Other than the macks/bullets, the bigger funny fish weren’t showing. Most albies came on the blind cast, a couple by throwing into busting fish, and 1 albie, a s-mack, and a bonito came on the troll.

     

    no boats within a half mile of me

  5. 2 hours ago, bob_G said:

    ... sizeable dorsal fin slicing through the water on the west tide.

    Definitely not a mola, nor Salty or any of his ilk.

    Sept. 2011 I saw the same thing. Late at night, moving east against a west current, a big triangular dorsal.  A fellow sol member saw it the same night at a different part of the cabal and posted it about here. 
     

    Perhaps it’s the same individual making a yearly September visit

  6. 4 hours ago, NHAngler said:

    Stayed in the Yarmouth / Dennisport area this week and went out a few times in my kayak and one short trip in a boat. There are bonito and albies everywhere. Hooked into 3 what I think were albies on a white sluggo and dropped them. I could see fish breaking all around me for sometimes 15-20 minute non stop sessions but NOBODY was hooking up. Boats would come and go, giving up trying….. Several times I had bones zipping almost into my kayak at lightening speeds. That is how I could tell what they were. Guessing around 18-20” sizes from what I could see surfacing… Bait balls also everywhere and looked like dark clouds in the water moving around. Tiny profile and think the fish were just blindly crashing the bait. 

    In my experience and by closely watching drone video of some cool feeds, the first handful of fish that crash the super tight ball of little bitty bait are just opening their mouths and getting multiple baitfish at a time. The next volley or two are fish more likely to pick off individual baitfish. This is when you have s chance of getting bit. But it’s not a very good chance. Last time I was in a big epic but picky feed, I got 3 bites, 1 hook up, zero fish landed. I probably had 100-150 casts into decent to insane feeds. So the moral for me is to keep casting, a 1/50 shot is a heck of a lot better than zero…

     

     

    P.S. you may want to consider removing the area from your post… can never be too cautious these days

  7. 3 hours ago, bdowning said:

    So why are bonito on the state record list and albies are not ? Seems weird...

    My guess is incompetence and/or the practice of politicians using state jobs as political capital, leading to unqualified people in positions of varying importance… but again just an educated guess.

     

    Tiger shark and cobia are on the state record list for Christ sakes!

  8. 9 mins ago, albacized said:

    has anyone ever seen an albie spit something up this size?

     

    Nope.

     

    Thanks a honker! How the hell did she swallowed that thing? They’re not like bass, or blues even, that can flare their gills and really suck food items down.

  9. The seats are real nice but pricey.

     

    reverse is nice but the v2 is more reliable and a stripped sprocket (among the more common drive repairs) is much cheaper for the v2 drive (30ish bucks). If the same issue happens on the 180, you must buy a $400+ spine as hobie does not sell just the sprocket for 180 drive

  10. 3 on Saturday, 2 on Monday for me on the yak. But I was lucky to do that well. Boats made the feeds real short lived on Saturday. On Monday there were less boats but also less fish.

     

    Saw a variety of bait but small silversides seemed to be most prevalent. I think they’ll make a good run into the bay this year with small silversides being the main course

  11. 10 hours ago, bob_G said:

    I've seen times when there's been over 25 people fishing a popular area, known for poaching.  EPO pulls up, sits there, drives away without checking a single person for a license. This in spite of that fact several guys immediately dropped their rods as soon as they saw the EPO.

    Yup, they definitely seem to avoid any additional paperwork. Haven’t really fished the canal since June ‘19 but EPO’s were nowhere to be seen on the predictably good tides, particularly weekend tides.

     

    Instead they’d tend to show up on commercial days (Monday, Thursday) after 10 am. This gave them the worst chance of catching someone breaking the law. Can’t catch guys stacking fish on a comm day.

     

    Then on one of the slowest days, no one could get a sniff all morning, a handful of us are shooting the breeze on the service road and this EPO stops to brag about the ticket he just issued.
     

    Apparently, someone was biking a 20 pounder to his truck when the EPO stopped him. The fisherman admitted he was comm fishing but had his permit in the truck. At the truck he produced his permit and showed the officer a second fish from earlier. The fisherman thought it was a 34” fish (comm limit at the time) but upon EPO’s inspection it was less than a 1/4” shy. Now this was also the first year that a comm fisherman could not keep his comm limit plus a rec limit; meaning the previous year he could keep 2 fish at 34”+ to sell and one fish at 28”+ to eat, stuff, or whatever. Anyway, he got a ticket for not having his permit on his person and for the undersized fish. Both fish were confiscated. 
     

    It seems this EPO was trying to let us know that he is Tough-tits McGhee and sending the message that he isn’t going to give anyone a break. Part of me thinks it was just a story to scare us straight. He never asked any of us to produce a rec or comm permit, btw.

     

    However, on non comm days, when poachers were stuffing big bass in trash bags and sticking them under strangers cars in the parking lot until they decided to cash out, EPO’s were nowhere to be found. Despite the phone calls that this was happening the day before. I understand being short handed but from what I see, it’s a straight up dereliction of duty.

  12. My take on color is as follows:

     

    At night, light colors can out produce dark colors and vice versa but actual color makes little difference. I prefer “off-black” colors for my dark selection. Instead of straight black, I go for brown, aka eel skin, or when I pour my own, “chocolate thunder.” However, I have no real evidence that black wouldn’t work just as well. Also two tone coloration has seemed to make a difference on some nights. One night in particular, black over purple and black over red were out producing all black or all brown 5 to 1. For light night colors, I like white, pink and pink over white.


    During the morning/day, color tends to matter much more. In some cases, a variety of colors get bit but one will noticeably outproduce the others. In other cases, it seems only one color will get bit. But whatever the case, one thing almost always remains true during the day:

     

    If it’s at least half white, it’s at least half right!

     

  13. I like my cheap garmin striker 4 FF. I buy a bunch of extra power cords for $20-25 each. I try to mitigate corrosion but best case, I’ll get 2 years out of the power cord. Regular fresh water rinse and dielectric grease applications on the display and connectors and your good for 5 to 10 yrs.

     

    if I ever bumped up to sidescan or more expensive units, Jeff270’s method sounds pretty water tight!

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