Recent content by oldslowandugly

Well, the Kahle 'English gap' hooks we usually use are almost identical to the EWG hooks. We have been using them for many years because they tend to get the fish in the side of the mouth rather than them swallowing it. But I believe we are missing a lot of hits for the reasons we discussed...

Holliday, have you ever used EWG hooks with real bait? I like to net baby Bunkers in late summer [Menhaden]. They are about the size of a pogy shad bait. I see rubber pogy baits hooked with a jig hook sticking out the top. The real bait is softer than the rubber ones and I wanted to hide the...

Hey Larry- SNL got in on the story.https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxWp-Z-NhbyqS-NOxJEhlbYv9qrd9y0OMh

That never happens to me. Sometimes when we are on a roll, a skunk day comes, and we wonder what we did wrong. Salt water is funny like that. The fish are more mobile and can easily move to better feeding areas. And if they move offshore you are just skewered until they come back. The water...

I remember it was pretty rural then. After diving, we drove for a LONG time looking for a place to eat. We found some family style dining hall and stuffed ourselves with good country food. The last time I was in that area it was to bury a fishing buddy at the Indiantown Gap National Cemetery.

OK, I get it. My cousin said he was walking out on a downed tree limb, to where there was a lot of submerged branches and weeds. He said it was all he could do to just hold onto a rod with the worm rigged like that. He basically did what I said, just dropped it into the cover and let it sink...

Hey Holliday. Ever hear of the 'whacky rig' worm? My cousin from western PA claims it is worth using. He was at some Racoon Lake where nothing was hitting. He tried a plastic work rigged that way and nailed two fat smallies. I asked why he did not use a regular rigged worm as a control...

I have a better plan. The ones that say 'Call me when it's in the water', get ghosted. No calls. And if they do call, I am always too busy. My kids and grandkids are always willing to help out. They get to go. They can outfish just about everyone anyway. When I used to take 'friends' out, and...

So I got it up off the trailer. Years ago I welded up some nice hull supports out of stop sign poles. I get them under the hull and mount the ends on cement blocks. Now I can slowly lift the boat off the trailer with a jack. Then I roll the trailer out from under the hull and it is suspended...

I need to bottom paint the Whaler. The weather has been against that for weeks. I switched to the new water based bottom paint. I like it better than the solvent based stuff. But it is less forgiving of cold weather. I was really trying to get in the water early this year. Oh well......

I'm a big fan of late day/sunset fishing. Mostly because I can't get up early anymore. But I find that a hour or so before sunset is almost as good as dawn. Plus, it transitions into night fishing, which is big in summertime here. April 15 Striped Bass opens. I usually take the Grandkids to...

6 to 8 MILLION unexploded ordnance and landmines in Cambodia?!? WTF was the Khmer Rouge doing all that time? I think we should breed more Ronins, and send them to Ukraine. Maybe we can volunteer our aggressive Shitty City rats for the cause.

It's a head cold. I just figured out when I got it. The daughter needed some electrical work done and when I went over to do it they were all sneezing and coughing. Our old school Pediatrician always said it takes a week for a cold to get going. He was right as rain. It was exactly a week after...

WE'RE GOING TO NEED A BIGGER BOAT!!!!