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  1. Middle out outgoing to low tide. I am telling you right now tide does not matter. Don't get caught up on this.
  2. Definitely different conditions today than yesterday but I still found fish. I ended with 6 with this mid 30 inch being the biggest of the day coming on a pencil popper. The others came on a white heavy needlefish. There was a fair amount of sand eels in the surf zone where I was at. A daylight needlefish bite was awesome.
  3. I don't think that fish could have ate anything else. I could see at least 2 adult bunker tails down his throat. Pretty awesome spectacle of nature today.
  4. I'm still finding quality fish away from the crowds and for me it's the year of the bottle plug. It was just me and 3 other guys on a long stretch of beach. There was not a fish under 28 inches and my best with this one into the mid 40 inches. The rod just past the end of my grip is around 37/38 for reference. I ended with 12 fish overall on a mix of lures.
  5. I picked a hell of a day to leave my phone/camera at home - a rare occurrence for me. I landed on blitzing fish for a few hours in NoMoCo far away from the crowds and landed 15 with a pretty interesting range in sizes. The smallest was 12 inches but the biggest fish which is by far my personal best on the beach was 51 inches. This things was huge and was a solid inch past the 50 inch mark on my rod. It fell for one of my home made smiling bill bucktails with split otter tail and crushed barb hooked perfectly in the corner of the mouth. I had the fish measured and back into water in a jiffy and it swam off perfectly. That might be my fish of a lifetime. I would have loved a photo and for the first time ever wished there was another fisherman nearby to witness and help document the catch but alas it was not to be. I'll just have to try and get another one.
  6. The fall fishery is a very much run and a gun with fish aggressively feeding as they migrate. Unless you have physical limitation preventing your mobility lobbing a stick bait would be the least productive method of fishing this time of year in my opinion. You have to move around, find bait, find birds, find cuts and be nimble.
  7. One factor to consider is how hard you are on gear. I've seen countless people rip brand X but they themselves are so terribly rough on their gear no reel will survive the abuse. Anyway.... I have a pair of vr75's I used for striped bass. I like to keep my gear light in weight. I'm on my 3rd year with over a dozen 40 inch fish, slammer blues among them and albacore which take blistering runs. The reels have worked perfectly of me. I don't abuse any of my gear but rather meticulously maintain my stuff. They might get a dunk here and there. If you do this then the only reason consider anything else would be if you are going to reel underwater. If so then I could consider going up a level in model. Otherwise the VR is the best value in my opinion.
  8. Not to derail the reports thread I will say that the plug building forum here was a huge resource with a lot of step by step how to's. Start there. If you don't have woodworking equipment buy a plug making kit and you just paint it. That is a good way to see how much work is involved.
  9. I'm not a commercial builder no. I make in very small batches with about 1/2 dozen each of my favorite woods in a handful of colors. It's very labor intensive - I give the guys who do this for a living a lot of credit. There is a reason why custom wood costs so much... I know first hand how much.
  10. Sometime you have to fish when you can. Today's outing was at exactly dead low on my lunch break with the water just about turning. I hit two cuts within easy walking distance and found fish in both cuts. I landed 2 and lost 3 more in the hour or so I gave it. All the fish were slots size and hitting and thrashing right in the lip on my home made surfster.
  11. Today I was seeing mullet getting blown up waaaaay out on the bar with more sporadic action inside the bar. I managed to land 5 with this near keeper size all on one of my own custom surfster wood swimmer plugs. For me the wide body lures have been raising fish consistently. I lost another solid fish trying to get it up the beach in between waves - I would have liked to have landed that fish it was a good one.
  12. The daytime bottle plug bite for me has continued but has slowed with 2 fish yesterday and one keeper size today. I'm wondering if I've missed out of good fishing over the years by not trying a bottle plug during the day - I've only ever use them at night. Anyway this fish will be my last for a bit - more knee surgery for me tomorrow.
  13. I have not posted in a while let's see how this goes. I've been catching fish since the storm most of them have been slot fish. Yesterday I found two nice ones a 32ish and the other 40-41 after measuring the rod and comparing photos once I got home. Both of the better fish came on a SS Bottle plug middle of the day, high sun, outgoing in big water fished slooow. Most of my fish this week have been on the bottle which is not surprising I'm seeing a lot of mullet in the surf.
  14. This sport is supposed to be fun and relaxing but the hate that goes on in the reports thread has honestly pushed me away from participating. We're not all going to get along with each other and that's ok. Please just be adults about it and bite your tongue so we all don't have to be burdened by the nonsense being spewed. Honestly... I'm embarrassed for you all.
  15. The waters near me have been absolutely filthy dirty. The rivers are filling with seaweed, the bay and some ocean waters are littered with human trash and so I put the big rod down and found a section of beach that was good enough to see if any fluke were around. I found 7 the best one being this 17 inches or so. I didn't see any other fish caught.
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