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I’ve been hitting it at night, often with kids. My youngest has been catching the bait on a handline at the fishing dock😆 He gets about 20 a trip. First time was a rope he shoved a random hook through. At the end of the night he was telling himself he was dumb and it would never work. Made...

Got a 30” pickerel at MC I had a random kid reel in for me and a few 2-3 lbs LMB. Kids caught there first crappy but it’s been mostly slow there.

He was happy as a clam and not the smelly ones we used for bait!

Secret weapon, sand flea/mole crab fish bites on hook with sand eels. A dad and son next to us were struggling so I hooked a few fish bites for them. They caught some keeper fluke and porgy. The dad was telling the kid he usually stops at the market after to bring home fish. The kid was...

I only fished the last hour or so. I had three rods going for youngest. He fished 3 hrs or so and had 3 buckets of keepers with 18+ let go. We had a family pool he won and my FILs wife missed boat pool by 1/2”. I ended up with some pretty close to biggest sea bass, a spikey skate that came in...

Trip out of Jones Beach. Not a fan of party boat trips but with in-laws we took one full side! Only there a day then up to Poughkeepsie. Wanted to stop on the way back for a full day off Montauk but Cathleen had appts for kids before school starts.

I also was very careful how I swapped handles on the new 6601. I like the fighting handle a lot better and this reel the threads were fine, no issues like the original I ordered. Even with thin ish hands they are kinda long and the regular BC handles felt really uncomfortable/cramped. I don’t...

I’ll through a butterworm on a trout magnet head and hit a half dozen jumbo trout even after running 20 things through prior. I finally reordered the returned 6601. Have to wind on some line today and have 30 lbs braid or mono. I’m going to use mono I think even though I’m heading to LI to...

You know my stance on all things artificial. If I can’t solicit a bite presenting bait a half dozen ways I wouldn’t do better artificial. If they’ll bite bait they will hit artificial. Only time I don’t mix baitfish or something in is in SR but even then I have single eggs and sacks.

I have enough time with 3-4 rods and prefer 2. I have a coworker that was full time BP tour for years and still is part time. He also has a $70k boat new every few years. Never desired to fish with him but he’s a great guy. I sort of recall a similar dialogue with him. I think it included the...

On a split ring? I always assumed a snell was for a hook shaft. Tues a bunch of those a ways back to create looped for my brother.

Not sure I can snell 80 lbs mono onto a lure split ring. Maybe a large hook though.

Next question, how the heck do you put a knot in an 80lbs mono leader!?!. I used some suffix wind on leader premade for tarpons/sharks but the lure/hook end knots look like they’d untie themselves. A-5 has me on Palomar knots but I tried a few others too. Used a loop to loop to connect to 12 lbs...

Seems to be a thing here. I found edible variety 1x ever. Neighbors collect garbage bags full and beat me to them. I don’t mind a few varieties, none psychobillin or whatever those types are the Aquarians prefer.

Beltzville but I ain’t dealing with all that. Maybe in fall on the upper channel on the access roads as the Striper come through. I hear Bville is nuts right now.

Whah? I thought they only had those bite size fish in there we caught! When did walleye get into MC lake? Channels too? I’m embarrassed if so, right in my own backyard.

Thanks Don, I thought the closest side was New Tripoli but I had kids in tow so we only checked out the access on outahalee rd and the fishing dock/dam area.

Have 600 yards of 100 lbs braid on a 10k size reel with a heavy travel tarpon/shark rod…too big?!? In seriousness I was just going to use my salmon rod which is a 4-5k Okuma I think. I’ve flouro from 50-100 lbs for leader. Run the bait on top of water or deeper?

Have kayaks stored right down the street at lizard creek too. Looks like kayaks might get me into better pockets. They are sit in style I think so not fishy really but maybe one was sit in style. Mom has a camp on lizard and I haul her kayaks but can’t recall what they were. Think I still have...

That’s what I hear. Looks like it’s perfect for them. Any tips on line size, bite leader, etc? I’m a live bait person so I’m guessing toss a 5-8” fish out in the right spot using a float designed for salt would turn something up.