But I was thinking last night, what if you turn this on its head. What if you think about what it would be like to always be casting a $1000 lure. Every cast there’s a thousand bucks at the end of your line. Do you have confidence in your knots and line now?
The guys are back with another installment of your favorite themed episode: Surf Association. In this one, Jerry yells a lot. Toby sweats. But they’ll teach you a thing or two, as well.
I have gone way, way down the rabbit hole of tail dressings, testing and retesting different plugs with different combinations to the point where I have developed a loose but consistent playbook for what to do to make a particular plug behave exactly the way I want it to.
A self-proclaimed “Glide Bait Evangelist,” Jimmy Fee of On The Water Media joins the guys this week to spread the gospel of the glide bait—in glide we trust.
So this week- and into next week- as you’re thinking about where you might catch fish in this weird, not really a nor’easter, not a hurricane, wind event thingy, I might consider: where are the fish REALLY close?
On this week’s episode, Jerry and Toby break down one of the most overlooked aspects of surf plug action: roll. How much should a surf plug roll, and is more roll always better? The guys discuss how plug roll affects swimming action, why some plugs are designed to roll more than others, and whether roll is a desirable trait for every surf plug or only specific types of lures.
I know some of you are saying to yourself, “There’s no bad time to fish a bucktail jig,” and you’re not wrong. The thing is, most of my bucktailing is done in outflows—breachways, inlets, drains, and similar areas. I’m just not much of an open-beach bucktail guy. I have plenty of other lures and jigs that I feel outperform a bucktail in the open surf.
Action Alert: Public hearings on Atlantic Menhaden Draft Addendum II begin this week.
In this week’s episode, the guys revisit the popular 4-Plug topic, this time tackling breachways and outflows.
Whether you call them bunker, greenbacks, mossbunker, or even pogies, Atlantic menhaden need your help!
Get in on our fall run giveaway- which is live right now! Find out how in the post.
In this episode we answer a listener question: How much of trophy hunting is purely just luck?