Blackfish Addiction

[Gerry Zagorski]

Originally Posted by dales529

Plain ole stupidity! You forgot to mention the $5000.00 in tackle. Roaster Rod / Pig Rod/ maybe both Rod/ LH Reel / RH Reel/ Sidewinder Reel/ Fly rod for
Fast Eddie / Snafu Rigs/ Slider rigs/ Rigs for "scratchy bite" / Plain old rigs? Rusty Rigs. Oh and 500 lbs of assorted lead.
Rods and reels for "scratchy bite"
And thats for beginners

Also I will keep going until I prove there is NO such thing as a "scratchy bite"
All that means is your Jig or weight is hitting rocks with on a dead no fish zone

Gotta love it and see you on the Osprey

Yeah, now that you mention it, Tog are the only fish I have 3 different rods and a separate tackle bucket for. It is an expensive habit...Floro, extra $trong $harp hook$, jig$ and weight$ of all $izes...

And, not to mention the bait...
- Who's got crabs, any White Leggers??
- They're too big, they're too small, "They're dead Jim"
- So and so is cherry picking crabs, so and so is using my crabs not the boat crabs, these are my crabs.
- The top secret crab guy who name is never mentioned ...You need crabs and so and so says "I got a crab guy and Ill check" but never tells you his name. Come to find out, his crab guy is your crab guy.
- Legs on or Legs off. Shell on or shell off?

You'd think were on a top secret mission to mars or something....

All that attention to detail and some rookie hangs the biggest fish of the day on a rental rod he left sitting in the pole holder while he went to piss

You can't make this stuff up

[HDMarc]

Originally Posted by Gerry Zagorski

All that attention to detail and some rookie hangs the biggest fish of the day on a rental rod he left sitting in the pole holder while he went to piss

It does take a special kind of stupid to love going for the species that normal people wouldn't even bother to attempt. Took my friend Sam for his first tog trip on the Mimi, he was getting bored, decided to take a piss break and dead sticked his bait, didn't make it to the cabin and his rod doubles over, 7 pounder that took the pool, the luck of a newbie

[Gerry Zagorski]

The look you get when you move next to someone who's very quiet and patiently waiting for a bite all day... He hasn't peed in 5 hours and frozen snots run down his nose. He won't move or wipe his nose because he wants his rig perfectly still...

You drop down and start bouncing your jig around...

[Bates]

Originally Posted by Gerry Zagorski

The look you get when you move next to someone who's very quiet and patiently waiting for a bite all day... He hasn't peed in 5 hours and frozen snots run down his nose. He won't move or wipe his nose because he wants his rig perfectly still...

You drop down and start bouncing your jig around...

Was that you!? They said your name was Joe Z?

[Capt. Lou]

It’s that 20lber ! That simple ! So I give up my beloved trout fishing days to try and try and try 😜

[TerriMc223]

Heading home on the Capt.cal .freezing cold this morning.got to the dock@ 5 am anyway. Slow morning for me and the others. Bite picked up on our last two.drops. caught only.shorts today but left them chewing!!! Can't wait to get back out for more!
Togging is the bomb!! What is not to love!

[bulletbob]

The "blackfish addiction" is pretty recent, within the past 20 years.. It would be a LOT less addictive to many guys if there was a chance to go and catch buckets of big Ling and Whiting.. I know I've said it here many times, but most here are younger than I am, and don't remember the days when blackfish boats would be lucky to get 20 guys on a nice weekend day in November .

Blackfish became wildly popular after the demise of the Whiting/Ling/Mackerel/Cod fisheries... We " blackfish addicts" were always there.. I was one as a teenager.. However, when there were other options to catch big bags of fish, blackfish were always an also ran to many less dedicated party boat fishermen .

Concerning "blackfish weather", thats new as well.. Blackfish were targeted by most boats only until the Whiting showed up , and that was it until May when the whiting and ling started heading offshore.. there was no such thing as blackfishing in the snow and cold as we have today.. they are much more active in 60 degree water than they are in 40 degree water, thats why BIG BROTHER opens the season up in November when the fish have already started slowing down.. it is what it is, welcome to the modern age.. bob

[hartattack]

Growing up on Long Island I used to target them off a North Shore pier. My brother and friends would be bailing flounders with garden worms while I sought Tog using Fiddler Crabs. They would switch over when they saw my success but when they baited up with Fiddlers on their Flounder rigs they learned how strong Tog were - straightened hooks ! Now I had to give my bro Fiddlers and Virginia hooks: he hasn't stopped grubbing off me since We never targeted Tog in the Sound when we were older and started fishing from boats. Stripers were more glamorous then. I know Virginias are obsolete but does anyone still use Fiddlers ? . . .

[Togfather2530]

Originally Posted by bulletbob

The "blackfish addiction" is pretty recent, within the past 20 years.. It would be a LOT less addictive to many guys if there was a chance to go and catch buckets of big Ling and Whiting.. I know I've said it here many times, but most here are younger than I am, and don't remember the days when blackfish boats would be lucky to get 20 guys on a nice weekend day in November .

Blackfish became wildly popular after the demise of the Whiting/Ling/Mackerel/Cod fisheries... We " blackfish addicts" were always there.. I was one as a teenager.. However, when there were other options to catch big bags of fish, blackfish were always an also ran to many less dedicated party boat fishermen .

Concerning "blackfish weather", thats new as well.. Blackfish were targeted by most boats only until the Whiting showed up , and that was it until May when the whiting and ling started heading offshore.. there was no such thing as blackfishing in the snow and cold as we have today.. they are much more active in 60 degree water than they are in 40 degree water, thats why BIG BROTHER opens the season up in November when the fish have already started slowing down.. it is what it is, welcome to the modern age.. bob

BINGO. I COULDNT HAVE SAID IT BETTER. I love to catch blackfish but their days are probably numbered too as slow as they grow ant the pressure on them. As far as me, it’s just too try to catch a real big on like the one that pulled my hook lol

[Gerry Zagorski]

Originally Posted by Bates

Was that you!? They said your name was Joe Z?

My evil twin