Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating - New Tattoo Patterns & Styles, & Other Stuff

Them little 2.5 oz sinkers are a great lure.They cast about as far as any lure u can throw.Pencils or tins cast the best.I remember the first time I had witnessed their swimming action.I was fooling around casting to school fish in the cc canal.I had known they had some swimming action as I had caught fish on em at night before.More so out of faith then knowledge.I stopped half way in on my retrieve to see what it could do.I was amazed.I knew I had a future weapon an I could not wait for the opportunity present itself.It took me one night in Montauk this fall to remember the untapped weapon waiting in a box in the truck..In Montauk u get some sweep.sometimes .5 knt sometimes 2knts or better.This one night it was pretty good.I had some on darters and then needles.I wanted some extra distance I was watching these com guys in a boat handlining nice fish every drift just off the beach.I tied one on an let it fly. I was basically holding em or reeling very slow to just keep em moving an off the bottom.I could feel em swimming. I think as the tide was falling it was the extra distance that had me on the fish.They all came on the end of a long cast..Not sure if any where in closer as I was hooking up every time in 2 or 3 turns of the handle.I can think of a few other places I could use em in RI also..Go to 3/0 6x heavy hooks.Maybe even juice up a few with a few cc's of oil or water..Hold on.Another tip is to turn the rear eyelet sideways an ad a 6H split ring and a 6/0 or 7/0 siwash with some feathers and/or bucktail.It really accentuates the swimming action an makes for a slightly larger profile.The larger split ring enables the hook to fold over nicely on the plug so it will not take away any casting distance.It's a great lure with so many options.U can fish all night with it an when it gets light u don't have to hoof it back to the truck to change it out..U already have one of the best topwaters in ur bag.Spray paint em if u don't have the color u want.I now guys would carry paint bombs in their buggies an use em dripping wet an scored when they had to.