Help with live lining and LTJ

[Chilli]

AF,

The guys have given you good sound advice... I'll toss in my two cents as well as an invite to tag along anytime you want... I do quite a bit of both.

I perfer LTJ... Works well from mid summer and only improves as fall sets in. The rock school and hold tight to structure and LTJ becomes a very productive tactic. You will find that right now the knolls, 6 ft 7 ft and 9 ft are good as well as man o war. Belvader shoals is always good but you must spend the time to learn the bumps.... The harbor is also productive this time of year. The trick to effective jigging is a lot of homework and some experience.... Fine the channel edges and the lumps. Explore them regularly and develope the pattern. If you can figure out the pattern, you are in the money....


Live lining.... I'm guilty.. I do it... Not my favorite, but at time it is the answer to beating the curve. Now most of the time, I live line only when the fish are scattered in a fairly concentrated area. I spend a lot of the earl summmer to mid summer soaking perch, spot and small croaker around the docks in the harbor. Often time a live offering will draw the rock out from the timber when other methods won't. As everbody else said, for my set up I will use a snapswivel tied to my main line (spro). If the fish are more than 30' deep I will use 1/2 oz above the snap swivel. If they are shallower I will use no weight. Attached to the snap swivel I willl use a 3' 20 leader and a 6/0 bait hook. Pretty simple. Keep in mind that I am not using this as a drift rig. I am using this to presion fish around docks (wood) and structure in the harbor around the old terminals....

Good luck and don't be afraid to ring the phone if you want to go out.

[Tom Hughes]

AquaholicFishing: Please visit my website and read the fishing reports and the articles at the bottom of my home page. I hope this gives you some help.

Hope to see you at:

The next monthly chapter meeting will be on Tuesday, September 19 at the Commodore Hall, 1909 Old Eastern Ave. in Essex. We will feature a presentation by Capt. Chuck Fisher on Fall fishing. Chick is a long time member and highly popular charterboat captain fishing the entire length of the bay from Pooles Island to the CBBT. Don’t miss this highly informative presentation. Chuck always revels a secret or two that should help you to increase your catch. Don’t miss this highly informative presentation.

[AquaholicFishing]

Chilli, thanks for the info and the invite. Have to check the calender and see when both of us are available. Tom, haven't been to a meeting in awhile. Work schedule usually has me tied up til 7-8. But will definitely try to make it and pick up some more tips from Capt. Chuck. Also might have to meet up with ya and get some tips for CBBT fishing for this winter.

Thanks again to all who have posted information and responded to this post. Makes me glad that I found this board back in May.

[HOLWACHAGOT]

If you got the patiance I can show you how to do this without even using a hook! That right I said NO HOOK! It's the only way to go. Your bait will stay alive forever!

I have reeled em in with croaker wedged sideways in there mouth. Almost always a smaller one though. I would love to hear more about the no hook trick. Holwachagot.

[AquaholicFishing]

OK....come on reel world give it up, i've been picking my brain the past few days and just gotta know how to catch a rock with no hook.

[KEY-LIME-PIE]

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Tom

[Capt-D]

Uhhmmm..........................O-kay...............................

Tom, I really think you need to start wearing a hat when your in the sun dude. I think you may have fried somthing on your last trip!

-D

[reel world sportfishing]

It is so damn simple you will kick yourself in the ass when I tell you!!!!
From your main line,put on a small barrel swivel, from that attach 4'-6' of 40#leader. At the business end of the leader attach a small snap swivel.
GOT THE PICTURE YET..............................................................
Fot those that are slooooooooooooow................................................
Now go catch yourself some small white perch. When you got em take the leader with the swivel and put it in the perches mouth and out the gill plate and then reattach the swivel to your leader just like them old striners you ue to use when you were a kid.
O.k. you got the basics now for the most important part, the technique!!!



Got to go to work now
Technique tonight, HOPEFULLY

[reel world sportfishing]

I gues nobody wants to learn this neat trick, oh well

[AquaholicFishing]

I definitely want to know how this is done. Would be an awesome bet to make with someone that you can catch a striper without a hook.