Togging, finally!

[Hookmanski]

After posting on here a few times asking for some tog tips, and after winning 5 Tautog shirts at the last NJF christmas party, I finally made the time and effort to go looking for some tog. I had tried once before a year or two ago with 0 success and was determined to change that.

Last time I tried, I was using rigs exclusively and decided this time I'd try Jigs instead. Picked up a bunch of sand fleas, went down to a popular jetty in SNJ and started looking for holes. I found a few holes that I was getting bites in, but they all turned out to be small sea bass. Eventually, I did find one hole that was a bit deeper than the others I had tried and pulled out my first ever tog on a half ounce jig.



Kept moving around and came across what can only be described as a honey hole. I ended up catching 9 more tog out of it, with 2 13"s and a 14", but no keeper sized ones ended up making an appearance.



I was stoked to have so much success, and had a ton of fun doing it. I was using my surf rod to boot, so I'm sure with better gear I'd have pulled out even more of them now to find a tog rod! tight lines all