Gene Kearns wrote:
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:25:32 -0600, Vic Smith penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:16:06 -0500, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:46:49 -0600, Vic Smith penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:53:29 -0500, HK wrote:

While one of rec.boats sh*theads (aka Jim) was here posing as me, I was
in Deale early this morning at the Tri-State Marine fisherman's flea
market. I was amazed by the crowd. The market opened at 7:30, I got
there just before 8, and there were at least 300 people inside, looking
over stuff on the vendors' tables. Very little there interested me,
though I did "connect" with a guy who builds very nice custom rod at
decent prices.

Most of the gear being sold was targeted at the guys who tow heavy
umbrella rigs ISO stripers. Not for me.

But I did buy a handful of nice wood topwater plugs from a fellow
selling this guy's wares:

http://www.piersonplugs.com/

I bought a couple of each. They're not very expensive, they're "pretty,"
and the guy hawking them told me how he caught some nice stripers up at
the Bay Bridge.

I prefer sight and topwater fishing, so I'm sure these will be fun.
Never modified a lure, but you've said you replace the treble hooks.
How do you go about that?

--Vic
A lot of catch-and-release fishermen do this. Nothing like a thrashing
fish and 6 sharp barbed points to make a release a moot point.

Changing one hook for another depends a lot of the method of
manufacture.
Yeah, it was sort of a silly question, since they are attached
differently. Some of the plastics might have the trebles on a
molded-in loop and have to be cut off. Maybe that's where Harry would
use line to attach the single hook.
I have only a few lures now since I gave up freshwater fishing,
but seem to recall my muskie lures, the Suicks at least, having
the trebles on an eye-screw, which might be some work to replace.

--Vic

You know, there seems to be a big movement toward artificial lures
among the sal****er crowd. I've no real experience with artificial
salt water lures, but I know at least one local guide that doesn't
have anything to do with live bait....

It is on my to-do list this Spring.....



Try the Berkley GULP shrimp, the ones that come packed in a jar of
"brine." It's not a lure, of course...it is bait. But...damned stuff
works. Flounder love it, and I suspect if we had reds up here with any
consistency, they would, too. Also sea trout.