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poking around the elizabeths at night is NOT a good idea unless youre very familiar with the area. if youre fishing during the day my first piece of advice is to get away from the crowds. there is so much fish holding structure in that area that fishing where other boats are is not necesary. here is what works for me, if youre intent on fishing eels, cast them in tight to the elizabeths. leave one person at the helm with an eye on the sounder and the plotter. drift along casting your eel as close to the shore as you can safely get and retrieve it very slowly. big bass will kick your ass if your tackle is not up to the task of wrestling big pigs out of their rocky lairs. option 2; find a reef with some life on it, check the tide, throw the hook, and start chunking fresh, i mean really fresh, pogies. be kind of liberal with the chum at first and then slow it down once the fish find it. the most important part about doing this is your chunk must look like the others. no weight, flourocarbon leader, free spooled with the others. moving water and structure are the name of the game. if the fish are there it wont take long until you know it. if they dont show in 30 or 40 minutes, go find another patch of structure and have at it. good luck and please dont crowd me when you see me doing these same things
andyp262, how will I know it is you I'm not crowding?
And yes, anchor up on where you want to be along the islands before it gets dark out. I have a number of good spots to anchor depending on a number of factors.
The big bass do lurk all over those shorelines at night, absolutely. I like night and the challenge of big fish with 12lb mono.
if im going to sling eels i prefer the east side. for chunking i prefer buzzards bay usually. although one of my honey holes near robinsons is on the east side and has given up 3 pigs this season
if im going to sling eels i prefer the east side. for chunking i prefer buzzards bay usually. although one of my honey holes near robinsons is on the east side and has given up 3 pigs this season
Here is my hustle in life. I work in a multi-ethnic business and I'm lucky enough to barter the fish I catch, any of the fish, for cooked foods like;
Fried Chicken
Curried fried rice and chicken and all manner of home made baked goods.
I have many, black, Italian, Greek-folk who relish the shark for its white, very light, swordfish like texture and consistency. They all say it fries up very well and goes well with Italian "gravies".
I love to fish and catch fish, not so much to eat so it is a great system.
Here is my hustle in life. I work in a multi-ethnic business and I'm lucky enough to barter the fish I catch, any of the fish, for cooked foods like;
Fried Chicken
Curried fried rice and chicken and all manner of home made baked goods.
I have many, black, Italian, Greek-folk who relish the shark for its white, very light, swordfish like texture and consistency. They all say it fries up very well and goes well with Italian "gravies".
I love to fish and catch fish, not so much to eat so it is a great system.
As an Italian, I can say that there is no way in hell that I am eating Dogfish...
That said, I have heard the same thing about frying it as fish & chips... I'm still not eating it...
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Good catch on Monday of this week between Seal Island and the Hooter; although we had to work for them. Tube n' Worm then they turned on to green 'chutes on the wire. Largest kept for the table was a 42" @ 30lbs.
Similar conditions as last year....Fish this tide gone on the next tide, fish today gone tomorrow in the same spot and same conditions etc.....very, very sporatic. I hear it every day, where's the fish, where's the fish. Plain and simple; they are not staying on station for whatever reason.
Jig'em up......
You laugh, you cry, I have a line, a rotation if you will, of people who wait for me to bring them sand sharks/spiny dogfish AND sea robins, they love them.
To each their own. So long as I'm getting some fried chicken and curried rice and chicken and whatever foods they want to trade me for, I'm all-in!
Great site boatless33!, I'll have to share that one with my Dad, he'd get a kick out of that for sure.
At one time, not too long ago, monkfish and wolfish were considered no good, now monkfish is some of the most expensive fish anywhere.
I could care less what some eat/don't eat as I can't control what I hook, all I can control is what I get from the trade, mmmmmm. To me, striped bass tastes nasty and I'd rather eat fried scup than striped bass, but the bass are just fun to catch.
Many of those recipies on that site did sound pretty tasty and I'm sure that once cooked up, it all tastes the same. Like ugly women, turn off the lights and in the dark, it all feels the same.
Stripers were in thick at Devil's Bridge this past weekend. Trouble is, I had no pogies and they were not going after what I had. Fished for about an hour, throwing everything I had at them and caught only one 32 inch fish on live eels. The fish were going after the sand eels big time. This is true for all species right now. Sand eel baits and lures seem to work well at the moment.
Where are the Stripers? (Vinyard Sound area)
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