What would give you a better chance at a fifty? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Flaptail · 02-01-2008, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

I think if you know how to present live bait properly there is no comparison. Fish the same spot next to a lure guy and you will frustrate him very quickly.Try to make a lure swim,wiggle and smell like live bait without a retrieve and you run into problems.The number of fish I have caught over 35# with plugs is VERY small compared to fishing with the bass' natural prey.

Flap,we know where you stand, but according to the title of this thread you should explain why you think YOU stand a better chance at a fifty with plugs. Enlighten the masses.

SD, it's an easy answer. I don't think plugs give you a better shot and never will. Hands down live bait will take the bigger fish time after time. I have an addiction to plugs though ( you have all seen pics of my basement) But I believe in my heart of hearts (yes I do have one) that live bait is more of an insurance against failure. If you want to talk about staying positive throughout the fishing experience you better have it in multitudes when fishing plugs especially on the Cape these days.

I watched and listened to the live herring soakers in the canal proclaim themselves to be the sharpest of the sharpies when it came to catching bass there. While I cast away with my Polaris and Pencils. Legends were born and self promoted. Then came the herring ban. Where are most of them now? Relegated to obscurity and consoling each other on good they were while eating breakfast together at a Buzzards Bay eatery each weekend.

My personal preference is holding my chances back, way back. But it's a goal I continue to try to attain. I keep hoping to repeat the days of Monomoy when we landed there and cast rebels to fish breaking in the dark that sounded like someone ch#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g boulders. Where the magic happened. To watching the sun rise on the 14 fish I took that night laying on the sand next to the skiff with the smallest weighing 38 pounds and the largest in the high 40's. All on plugs.

Someday maybe just maybe it will happen again.