Low_Budget_Hooker

Suskydude for President!!!!!

Excellent, thanks. I'll tell ya, a few key tips and all the testing makes more sense. Last time, Matt explained the "wake bait window", narrowed quite a bit down but was nothing I wasn't already "experiencing" but not "recognizing". Same goes here. I've been messing with bills alot and there's angle, size, shape, placement,material, yadda yadda. Each time means more hours with power tools. My insurance company is cringing, they are not digging the lure maker monkey ;D : :-? (safety glasses 8-)) Luckily I'm close but I just realized what the last tweak is on proto 16 which will now become proto 23,lol.

Put the boat on saw horses, add water to inside get underneath with a yellow crayon and circle the leaers remove water Drill out all leaking rivets and replace (from underneath) with a 3/4 in tapered head bolt. Add some 3m 5200 marine adhesive/sealant to the thread. This eliminates the issue instaed of compensating for it. A 1 time fix, you'll never need to touch it again.

Well worth the $$ but if it's your 1st swim bait, get the floating one They can be found online for $30

In all seriousness though, my biggest limit is like 110 lbs, up to 130,135 if I'm drinking.

This happens when I hold a Dorito with 2 hands...... Her name was Sonya and that wasn't Toto, I had my hair down.. : You don't know the 1/2 of it bud,lol :

I can bring a boat, where is candlewood and what is the date?

where/when? Tough CAST schedule coming up but you never know. remember how your confidence shot up when you first found drift socks? Learning how to use multiple socks puts you in that same boat again. 20 mph and you can fish an area thoroughly,...it's a whole new world again and if you compete, you just gave yourself a significant advantage over those in small boats who don't have the knowledge My main issue yesterday was not just the speed of the wind but the direction. I had pretty much fished out the areas that I was finding them in, it was in relation with the wind bvlown banks, text book, but that direction only offers so much terrain to assault. The "calm" side "looked" tempting but I know better and stuck to my guns till the key areas where depleted. So ending the day was more a combo of being done dealing w/ the wind, depleted fishing areas, desire to see the chick and hunger. All piled up together.

Smoked 'em, report in "my outtings" btw- call me, I have a tourny idea. Don't know ur new schedule so I haven't tried your cell

Depends on the nose shape. General wake bait gets a short, 85-90 degree bill. Working now with ones that don't need a bill at all.

oh, and by the way,......I got your message ;D ;D 8-) I'm on it

Matt, this picture is "publishable". Have you offered it to any of the mags? Okuma? I think Bizz has a few like that too but that one, the angle and everything,...sends a message.

Normally, You would run 2 socks (both on the same side, port or starboard one on the bow and one on the stern) and keep the boat sideways into the wind but only if the socks are the same size and once it gets above 15 mph or so, you don't want to take waves broadside so you string the socks one behind the other, in a line and attach to the bow clip so you keep the nose into the waves. Fish off the stern. I have 3 different size socks so I go directly to the bow when it blows too stiff for the largest one. I use roughly a 7' line between the socks. One sock dumps into the next and so on. Start with smallest sock closest to boat and largest in the rear. and nope,...I'm not even bothering today,.....laundry has been ignored too long anyway,lol. It's domestic day, cooking and cleaning for the week to come and then I'm on VACATION for the new moon again!! WooHoo!!!

Got there about noon, fish in the video was caught about 1 ish. I had 8 fish in the first hour. It tapered from there but remained consistent with more and more "misses" as the fish became less committed. 15 mph winds when I got there, rain from the night before was done. Winds gradually rose to 20 or so by 4pm. By 6:30 or so it was too much, 3 drift anchors, daisy chained, and I was still drifting too fast but the fish were already in the boat. Rains came as I was pulling the boat out (about 7, 7:15), somewhat heavy but intermittent. Rained all the way home but had stopped shortly after. I crashed and woke up at 11 to heavy rain/wind. tropical Storm/hurricane/showers, call it what you will but the fish were digging it, whatever it was Today will be another story, bluebird skies, winds shifted out of the WNW at a steady 15, gusting to 20-25. The old timers that anchor up and wet some live bait will be the only boys catching today. I know there are guys who will claim that if they can be fooled by a shiner, they are willing to eat and if they are willing to eat, I can catch 'em. I ain't one of those guys,lol, I suck in these conditions. If I'm correct, there is another storm coming, right? :-?

See, now you're just trying to confuse people, play nice,lol Capire? Comprende? Verstand haben? ;D

It has been hit or miss since the last moon. Yesterday though,....all heck broke loose

Permit allows 1 fish per boat per day. 1011 lbs 8-)

and no,....there is no patch or upgrade, we just run him as is Some get used to him, some don't. Either way, the world is a more literate place with him than without. (More literate? lol) All yours Mike But back to the tackle. I keep everything on the boat. Couple plano's for when the wakes aren't working. I only throw 2 or 3 baits anymore so tackle storage is kind of irrelevant. My main storage is at home in the tackle closet. I will take what I need for the day from there but haven't had to in awhile.

You just won't know, unless you go. Trust your gut. Yesterday was a tough bite for most but I just couldn't miss a fish. Banner day. Had I read the reports and done the math instead of following my gut, I would have missed out.

I'm kind of biased,lol MIKE D!!

yea, it was a great day. The lure I made for Matt 5.0 was the real winner with 2 of the 4 fish over 5lbs coming on that one. Unfortunately it was pouring by then so the camera got packed away. Avg size for the day was 3-4 lbs. Can't wait for the next storm

Kinda like your avatar? DOH! ;D

GET OUT THERE!!!!! Bring your BIG baits Yesterday in Rhode Island

Muddy was asking how fishing would be while the aftermath of the hurricane blew through. I absolutey smoked them yesterday. I had the fish all to myself as the wake baits were the only thing they would take. I had 21 fish, Dirk had 3 fish, his dad had 2 fish and Vinny had 0 fish. They fished tubes,spinnerbaits, cranks and a few plastics. I fished with Karma and some home made wake baits Quite the difference. Here was a small example of how the day went. Nothing big but these were the average size alllllllllll day.

C'mon Alan!! My new quote: "You only catch on what you throw and you only catch if you get up and go!!" Today But back to the original post,......you're 5" baits are 9"'s too small