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NoLimit · #1 06-05-2015, 01:30 PM

Trick might be to get chum going down there

jmurr711 · #2 06-05-2015, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by NoLimit

Trick might be to get chum going down there

except alot of times the same spots are covered with dogs & pouts so the chums bad news. key is fish just off th edge of structure smaller baits & some yellow unless you can get those secret cape may green rubber worms right directa???????????????

Reel Class · #3 06-05-2015, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by NoLimit

Trick might be to get chum going down there

You don't need chum. If you chum every bergall, banana cod, and dogfish will swarm the piece and ruin the fishing. We catch them on whole or half clam bellies or strings on regular 3/0 hooks. They're VERY aggressive. If you put on a flounder rig, you obviously catch more but you also drop more ling b/c of the small long shank hook.

Joe - you said that you have to get on the edge of the piece - that is true but a lot of the wrecks we fish actually have the fish right on them.

Pics below are just a few (these were some of the ones over 3#) we caught last summer on our "deepwater" bottom trips. We usually averaged 5-10 a trip and we had our limit a few times last year fishing wrecks in 100-240' of water.