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Frank5

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  1. Cloud Danny still available? If so, I will take.
  2. I have both in the 10 foot models, but in theory their actions and properties will be the same between the two. Both of mine are custom built, and both serve their purpose for me. I fish the evolution more because I prefer a more moderate bend and I prefer a one piece over two piece. The surf machine is a true moderate fast, the evolution feels like a moderate fast until it gets pulled on my a good fish then it bends far deeper. I’d venture to say that the surf machine is def a more durable rod but i try to treat my equipment with care anyway so it doesn’t really matter. Surf machine fishes well but it’s faster than the evolution. Nice of people to pass negative judgement about products they don’t seem to know anything about. Century makes great quality rods no doubt about it, but until they start making a sling shot in a one piece that bends more moderately while maintaining crispness and faster recovery, then I’ll prob be sticking with my evolutions the majority of outings. I take the surf machine out in snotty weather.
  3. They are around close to the beach sometimes when the cownose rays are migrating in the area. Sometimes Cobia will be following them. Earlier this summer when those rays were thick i was sitting on the beach each day rod ready looking for cobia. Helpful if the sun is out water is clear and flat so you can see shadows. Occasionally they will surface and you can spot the shark like fin. It is at the very top of my bucket list to catch a legal sized Cobia off the beach in NJ with an artificial. The last day this summer i put an honest patient effort into trying to look for them, it was overcast so i could not see shadows of rays or anything else very well at all in the water but knew the rays were there from previous days which there had been hundreds and hundreds. My eyes were glued on the water for hours during those stretch of days. Finally saw two swimming parallel to the beach side by side on surface no more than 10-15 feet from the beach lip on a fairly flat day south wind coming up near the top of the tide. Grabbed my rod and trailed them got in a few productive casts but wind and current got me sideways pretty quickly. Saw them join a group of about 5-7 other Cobia close to the beach could just make them out under water. They started pushing out further lost the shadows pretty quickly and missed the gosh darn chance of a lifetime. Still haunts me. Every day. Will never forget it. Having never targeted them before i did not know then what I’ve come to learn now is that they need it right in front of them they are purely sight feeders but they also like it fast. Favorite food are live eels apparently. I have gravity eels and 9 inch sluggos rigged up ready for hopefully the next time i see the bastards. I think the big take away here for me is that during the right time of year and pending the conditions and rays being around, there are a lot more cruising around close to the beach than we’d expect but we gotta have our eyes glued on the water to notice. What might look like a shark fin at glance could very well be a Cobia but that’s if they come to the surface. But I’m right there with you guys, definitely a bucket list item for me, right at the top of my list, but only off the beach in jersey on an artificial is how i want to do it ideally. That would be a great sport fishing achievement in my opinion.
  4. Yeah I think the BH eels are a great looking imitation and I have some. Scented and look great. I personally enjoy the way the tsunami is more middle weighted and lighter in weight. I wish both held up better.
  5. If not committed to a sand eel bait profile and if it’s slow or off season, the 4.5 inch lunker city shaker paddle tail on .5 or .75 oz jig head is usually the first rubber bait I reach for. Good action and has a nice in between profile that can pass for different bait types. If sand eels are the bait, from my experience, I don’t think that any soft bait get better than the regular size tsunami sand eels, preferably the olive back ones. Can fish them so damn slow with a couple cranks then stop for a few seconds and let sink with twitch twitch pause then pick back up again. I have great confidence in them so maybe that’s the ticket.
  6. I am going to try this one last time. I am looking for a silver VSB reel foot for the 100-150 size. I am willing to trade my current stock silver VS reel foot + $50 or buy the part out right above market price. Please let me know.
  7. Sorry but it doesn't work like that here, all selling or trading must be done in the BST forum and out in the open, not in Pms since that's against the rules.
  8. Yeah I don’t know what to think of this thread. Seems slightly biased from what sounds like a specific personal experience. I own two evolution 10 footers and I prefer using them the most of the time these days. That could change over time. I do own other rods by Century, Lami, CTS, and Fiberstar. All great rods that have a time and place for me. What I personally like about the evolution is that it casts and works plugs like a moderate fast but bends like a more moderate rod on a nice fish. I also prefer 1 piece rods like very much so prefer 1 piece over 2. Also, i like that i can throw down to .5 up to 3 oz comfortably with the rod, as well as having the option to pair it with a 150 or 200 reel, will work with either in the 10 ft model. With that said i tend to be more careful with my gear. I had a 1 piece CTS baycaster that i loved it was a great performing rod that snapped on an acute angle scenario unhooking a fish. However that was might fault. I’d have to imagine that in the fishing dictionary that user error be found right next to the term acute angle. Sometimes it’s nice to give reasons and explanations for why we feel a certain way about a particular product whether for or against. I have no skin in the game with any particular brand, so i have no reason to have allegiance for any other reasons than those stated above… but at least I explained them.
  9. Still looking for this. Refreshing the post. Anyone have one of these?
  10. Correct, but then they won’t be able to own the beach the same way they have been able to do now with this BS. It’s as much about that as it is safety replenishment yada yada yada. At the very least it’s quietly a win/win this way for them. Maybe we don’t see the immediate changes and implementations of this control right away, and maybe we won’t ever see it but a lot of people in the world don’t use the stuff they own, they just like owning it. It was a land grab and a control thing. Your right on about the artificial reefs, but that would just make too much sense.
  11. I have this rod. It’s excellent for certain applications, one of which sounds like yours. I really only use it when it’s snotty with strong onshore winds when i can use it to punch out 2+ oz bottle plugs, bucktails, rubber shads, and metal. It’s a lot of rod, and pretty beefy and stiff but smooth feeling and soft enough tip to work with. Sounds like a good match for what ur looking for. I mostly fish open beaches, and prefer fishing my lighter and more moderate rods when conditions are lighter. With that said when wind and water picks up coming at me it’s the perfect rod for that. Hope that helps.
  12. You can prob add Fairfield University to the discussion as well. I know that a lot of the students are able to live in places close to the beach on the LI Sound.
  13. I am in for 15 dressed tail hooks and 10 flags. Assorted colors hook sizes. Tks.
  14. Have a 10 footer which was built custom by a very solid builder on here. Best rod I’ve ever fished in my own opinion. I love the way it can behave like a moderate-fast rod when casting and working plugs, but then bend and fight fish like a true moderate. ODM is one of the only outfits these days offering one piece rods. That is a major plus for me personally. I own rods by Century, CTS, Lami, and Fiberstar. All very solid rod makers in their own right.
  15. I’ll take the 2 swimmers if available?
  16. This is an interesting topic and original post, that might hold a little bit of truth but is prob over simplified. As others have mentioned, it is early in the season, many of the fish have not yet arrived. Some of the factors that contribute to routine skunks like the misfortune that I’ve been experiencing here in jersey the last two weeks include: -early season (water is still warm and it’s early in the migration) -plenty of bait but not enough bass (hard to compete with the buffet) -multiple varieties of bait (good for the bass complicates the fisherman) -huge sand flee shed -crappy weather Where I do tend to agree with the original post, is that I don’t think that jersey coastline inherently holds bass for very long unless slow moving bait in large quantities are hanging like sand eels. Other than that I think of surf fishing jersey beach’s as being more or less a highway that fish travel past sometimes fast and sometimes slow, sometimes close, and often times further offshore. The water beaches and geography in general is not sheltered by crappy winds and water conditions and there is less variety of types of water to fish. It’s straight line beaches to open ocean straight east. No sound, less rocky bottom, less structure in general, not many salt marshes, and no documentation of being a spawning ground in back bays and if it’s going on I’m sure it’s a small population. Long story short: I don’t see jersey as being any better or worse than it’s ever been. It’s just one of those fishing grounds that is highly dependent on a multitude of variables. It can be good or it can suck. The Striper population in general is dwindling too so that must be kept in mind.
  17. I’ll take $35 for the jointed picked up in PP?
  18. I have a dream! -That I’d like to see a SS little neck popper sinking that weighs 2 oz with the same body size as the 2 3/8 oz and can still swim like it…but is just a little easier to move and pop on the surface -Also, would love to see something like the mambo minnows come back with a size in between the small and large that swim with the same action and depth but are better casting.
  19. Awesome. Yeah he makes great stuff they flat out catch fish. Usually one of my top producers as well. Lethal when peanut bunker are around. Ran into him last weekend and he said that exact “spearing” style your using with the silver flash strips on the side has been very productive for him lately as well.
  20. Lemme rephrase that when I say less memory: What i mean to say is that I notice more manageable results in terms of keeping shape and straightness unless severely bent more so than mono.
  21. I prefer fluoro leaders. Is it less visible than mono, I couldn’t tell you, but in my experience it holds up better, has better sensitivity, and has less memory than mono.
  22. I’ll preface by saying: I’m not in the fly fishing game yet, but I look forward to picking it up soon. However, I’d consider myself a fairly educated and experienced fisherman with spinning gear in the surf. Long story short: the scenarios in which sight fishing has come into play for me on flatter and calmer water off the beach, when bass feeding on smaller baits boil to the surface as opposed to crashing with breaking water...i try to anticipate getting my cast off and landing the plug not too close, but not too far away from where I think that fish ended up right after that boil. Too close and risk spooking and not being able to pickup line quick enough to present a swimming plug, and too far away and it isn’t within the relevant strike zone and timing for that fish.
  23. Frank5

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    Disregard. Was on another country’s Rapala site for some reason haha
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