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  1. I saw this book name checked in Robert Prosts "Reading the Water" discussed here recently. 1959 with 1972 reprint. Although I've never caught a weakfish and they are rare these days, I got a copy off ebay. Anyone know it or read it?
  2. My first ever, a few weeks ago. Pretty exciting! Anyone else find them in CCB this year?
  3. Anyone have a Pichney in weakfish?
  4. I was looking thru a Mepps catalog I got the other day and saw these called Flying C. Made for West Coast salmon fishing but my mind went right to fluke & weakfish! Tons of colors & combos. 5/8s & 7/8s weight. Treble or single hook. Single hook is a Permasteel hook and I think the hook is replaceable. I was thinking maybe a squid strip or some GULP. Any West Coast folk out there tried these? How do they hold up with saltwater? Any strength issues? I did order some so I'll try em myself.
  5. Lot of 23 Sand eels. I have priced them out at $1.50 each, so $34.50 plus $7.50 shipping in USPS small flat rate box. The price is firm. PayPal.
  6. I have been seeing lots of pictures lately of people catching weakfish with the occasional larger fish in the mix as well. I am not very experienced in catching weakfish, but figured that it would be an interesting challenge to tackle on the fly... I'm looking for any advice on where, when, and what to throw. Thanks for your help in advance. Salty
  7. The Old Man passed away Monday. He would have been 85 in August. The older guys down at Giglios knew Ted Wheeler as “Ten Pound Ted”. Whenever Dad had some free time, he went fishing. He grew up in Hoquiam, Washington, which is on Grays Harbor, which opens up to the Pacific. Fishing in the northwest corner of Washington state was mostly done on inland rivers and streams for Cutthroat, Steelhead, Rainbow Trout and Salmon and away from the surf. Back in the '40s and '50s, hardly anyone fished the Washington State Pacific surf. The surf was too big and the first break was a mile or more out to sea and probably nobody knew there were any fish in the swirling whitewash. Ted’s Old-Man Roy (my grandfather) must have gotten anxious waiting for the Steelhead or Cutthroat Trout season to start, or he got bored of throwing spinners at Dolly Varden Trout, (Steelhead and Dolly Varden were the Striper and Bluefish equivalents, in that order, of Pacific Northwest streams and rivers), so he took my dad to the beach to find something to fish for. Dad always claimed his father discovered that you can catch Surf Perch on those huge Pacific Beaches with a piece of clam, which is what they did when they needed to fish, and the trout and salmon seasons were closed. When Dad was in the US Army he did not have much time to fish. After the Army he went to Clemson and found out you can catch trout in the streams of some of the Appalachian foot hills. On one of his trips, his fishing buddy, a 270 pound offensive guard for the Tigers was bitten by a cottonmouth. Dad said he couldn’t get the guy to leave and go to the hospital because the Football player was not going to let a snake bite ruin his fishing trip. In 1970 “Ten Pound Ted” moved to Little Silver and stayed there until Hurricane Sandy forced him and mom to move to Shady Oaks. After a long stretch of little or no fishing while in the Army or college, or starting a career and family, moving to the “Jersey Shore” in 1970 allowed him to fish whenever he wanted to, and he did. He would tell you the trout and salmon fishing was better on the West Coast but the surf fishing was better on the East Coast. Dad probably went 10 years before he caught his first Striped bass. It was not for lack of trying. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Stripers were extremely rare. When he wanted to catch “a fish”, any fish, he would usually take me. When we wanted to catch bluefish and probably a weakfish or two, we would drive to the Monmouth Beach Club Jetty and wait for the Bluefish to trap the spearing, tinker mackerel and other baitfish in the northside corner of the jetty. If not the Monmouth Beach Jetty then Tradewinds, or the Asphalt Jetty, or Surfrider or any of the other jetties up to the Hook, that are now mostly covered with sand. When the fish were stacked up on the Ocean Avenue sea wall, and the birds were diving just on the other side, we would scale the wall with our fiberglass polls, Penn reels and Hopkins or treble hooks. If my mother knew at the time, as an 11 year old, dad let me climb down the ocean-side of the sea wall, with waves crashing, to gaff a twelve pound weakfish stuck in the rocks, she would have killed my father for letting me do that. There was a run of “Tide Runner” weakfish back in the early eighties. The Monmouth Beach Car Toppers would bring in fish close to 20 lbs. and occasionally those fish would come in close enough to catch from the wall. I remember the old man hooked into one that nearly pulled him off the wall, which easily would have killed him. That fish ended up lost in the rocks buts we had fun. If the blues and weakfish weren’t running, and at a time when Striper Fishing was mostly futile, we would find other species to catch. Dad liked a good tasting fish so we went out for blackfish a lot on the local jetties. That’s when he started making his own sinkers for easy breakoffs. The jetties in Northern Monmouth County were usually productive though those blackfish were usually on the small size. We also fished Sandy Hook for blackfish a lot. Our favorite place was where that large chunk of white concrete stuck out of the sand at low tide. Besides some decent sized blackfish, those rocks produced kingfish and the occasional sea bass. If it wasn’t bluefish, weakfish or blackfish, fluke were a good diversion in the middle of the summer. I remember hiking up to the tip of the hook at 6:00 AM with him and then sprinting when we noticed the thousands of mosquitos we attracted while crossing through the swampy parts of the dunes. The huge ships that passed within casting distance in the Sandy Hook channel were always impressive. By the time the Stripers had recovered and catching one wasn’t so rare, I was involved in too many high school sports to fish for them, or was in college, or lived in the city. When Dad retired in the 1990s he was in his full fishing glory. He could still hop the rocks, walk miles of sand, or just stand at the end of Peninsula Avenue in Sea Bright to fish and “shoot the breeze” with guys with funny nicknames. His nick name was “Ten Pound Ted” because he couldn’t catch a striper that weighed more than 10 pounds. Dad’s retirement and the peak years of the Striper cycle lined up perfectly. He had the most time to fish when there were the most fish to be caught. His “retirement” from fishing was long and enjoyable and in stages. First he stopped going on the rocks, and hung up his cleats. A few years later he stopped wading in the surf and hung up his waders. As he got older, Dad stuck to the inside and liked to fish Peninsula Ave and then Branchport Park, where he probably did more talking than fishing. Finally, visiting Giglios, having a coffee and cigarette, and listening to fishing stories was his version of a fishing trip. When I moved to the Jersey Shore in 2009, my 20 year hiatus from fishing was over. The old man of course had collected tons of equipment over the years and he was pretty happy to hand it all over to me instead of letting it collect dust in the garage. I still use his Penn 700 series reels, which he always swore by, and the rod Jim Cousins gave him as well as any number of plugs and lures. These last few years, the closest Dad could get to the fish was to ask me how the fishing was. I would show him a phone picture of a fish I caught, or tell him the “black ducks of death” had landed out front and it was over for the season. Even in his last few days Dad wanted to know if I was catching anything. He liked to fish calicos and sand bugs in July and August. I told him I’ve been floating bugs just off the drop and had a few hits earlier in the week. He liked the sound of that. -------- A Memorial Gathering will take place at the John E. Day Funeral Home, 85 Riverside Avenue, Red Bank, NJ 07701, on Thursday July 18, 2019 from 4-8PM. A Memorial Mass will take place at 9:30AM on Friday July 19, 2019 at St. James RC Church in Red Bank.
  8. Hey guys..I do a lot more reading then posting on this site so I'd just like to share. I pulled up an old thread on this forum from 2001 or 2002 about guys talking about weakfish. Apparently up until the late 90s to 01 or so there were literally tons and tons of weakfish being caught and netted from boat and surf. Weakfish were caught basically in every fishing report from everywhere. This boggles my mind because in 2 yrs of surf fishing and spending a lot of time by the water I have yet to see a single weakfish caught. Out of thousands of fishing reports Ive read Ive only seen a handful of pictures of them caught in the surf. They're commonly referred to as unicorns and I can totally see why. In 2002 there was a thread titled something to the effect of "where are the weakfish?" In the thread a lot of the seasoned guys...some with 20+yrs were concerned that all of a sudden that year they didnt catch any. Then some guys in their wisdom said not to worry as it this was probably just a cyclical anamoly. Then guys were saying the regs were much to weak 15 fish at 14" or whatever it was. That whole thread gave me goosebumps how a once abundant thriving staple was so quickly decimated. Its also creepy how some of the guys saw the writing on the wall while others buried their heads in the sand. Whats even more chilling are the parallels Im seeing to the current state of the striped bass fishery. Seems like history is repeating itself once again. Seems like everything is ok until its not.
  9. Greetings! Fishing newbie with another question, when is the right time or place(s) to target weakfish in Connecticut or another close by state? I'm mostly an inshore angler and I do not own a kayak or boat. I've wanted to catch this fish but heard it's quite rare to come across one. I heard they fight quite nice for their size and they certainly look awesome. Also, if you could recommend any baits/lures/etc. for them that would be amazing. All help is very appreciated! Tight lines!
  10. A couple days ago I was making the walk to one of my favored spots, to find the beach was littered with Horseshoe Crabs. Must've been at least 200-300 that I could see, crawling around all over by the water-line. I decided not to fish there, considering I was jigging for fluke and I can't stand having the crabs constantly chafe my leader. The water was also very dirty, which encouraged my decision also. So, on my drive back I started thinking.. I don't think I've ever fished on a particular day when the Horseshoe Crabs are this concentrated. I feel like it would be quite futile, doubting that Fluke like to be crawled on and harassed by these large crabs. Seems to me like it would just result in a lot of dead-weight hook-ups, and lots of leaders replaced. It's not like I never fish around Horseshoe Crabs, just not THAT many. Anyone have a different opinion on this happening? Maybe I'm missing something going on in the food chain? Or am I in the right to say screw the crabs and that spot, for the time being?
  11. What are your favorite options for weakfish lures other than the soft plastic with jighead?
  12. As promised, I got the pictures back for the weakfish...and here they are. The top "trout" was officially weighed at 10lb 9oz, the second one was just a lil 8#er, and the bottom one, for the 2# tippet record, was 5lb 10oz. This is a picture of the weakfish submitted for the 8# tippet fly rod world record, 10lb 9oz: And here's the one submitted for the 2# tippet fly rod world record, 5lb 10oz: I have some other pictures of them coming, these aren't that great, but it's a start TimS
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