[Coop]

I do most of my fishing from the surf and a little off shore,,,I leave the offshore stuff to my pop but as far as surf fishing, my favorite bait would be fresh cut bunker chunks,,,now as far as rigs, since the beginning of december, I have been playing with what I would call a 2 hook fish finder rig,,,I fish 4 rods and 2 have this 2 hook fish finder and the other 2 have a typical 3"-8" fish finder rig,,,most of the fish have been caught on the 2 hooker,,,maybe just coincidental, but I will continue to use it until the onslaught of doggies and skates,,,when that occurs, I go with a really big circle hook with a very large chunk on a typical short ff rig,,,I will be utilizing the 2 hook rig and ff rig for mainly stripers, drum, and blues,,,kingfish, croaker, and spot, I use a short hi-lo rig or one those premade kingfish/spot rigs,,,flounder in the summer from the surf, I use a bucktail with a squid strip with 2 teasers seperated about 12" apart, cast and retreive,,,SHARKS!, I use a 10/0 or bigger j hook on a 5' heavy wire leader followed by 15'-20' of 250lb mono leader connected to the main line,,,these are my main goto rigs from the surf,,,I haven't used much as far as lures except for flounder but did catch a striper on a plain hopkins.



red drum, *stripers, blues,,,goto bait, bunker

flounder,,,goto bait, squid strips on bucktail

croaker, spot, kings,,,goto bait, squid, fishbites, small cut pieces of bunker

shark,,,goto bait, anything bloody and oily - blues, bunker, mackeral, and kings



*clams are always my backup bait in very late fall into the winter and early spring when fresh bunker isn't available.