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Old 06-19-2007, 07:23 AM
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Smile Fishing Reports for June 19 - June 25

The water is warming up but it seems to be pretty quiet now. Some of the smaller fish are being caught, like kings and snapper blues, but not in any great numbers. Hopefully the numbers will increase along with a few larger critters.

Feel free to post our reports here, fish or no fish.
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Old 06-21-2007, 12:45 AM
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went out tue and wens, with only two skates being caught over 24 hours. I did get to test my bait launching device in real conditions, though. Very good results for the first couple tests. need to do some minor tweaking though.
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"bait launching device"? Tell us more. Got any pics?
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Old 06-21-2007, 07:34 AM
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"bait launching device"? Tell us more. Got any pics?
its a secret that can't be unveiled until the Summer Fling for sharks!

Charkbait is also working on something to help us all out.
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How 'bout a hint....does it look anything like this?

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I think Dave's might, mine is more like a slingshot on streriods
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not quite but gettin close, I have got a few bugs to work out yet but the major stuff is functional, like it wont work with day old bunker, but tuna belly works great. gotta find some solution to these problems, and time it takes to go from ready to bait out needs to improve.
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Fished with my brother and his family and joined a little later by Sam and Tyler...yaked out some shark baits late afternoon into the early evening...nothing but a couple skates. Water was very clean and warm.

Flies were fairly bad but when the sun went down I was expecting to give a couple pints of blood but no skeeters were around.
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Fished with my brother and his family and joined a little later by Sam and Tyler...yaked out some shark baits late afternoon into the early evening...nothing but a couple skates. Water was very clean and warm.

Flies were fairly bad but when the sun went down I was expecting to give a couple pints of blood but no skeeters were around.
no flies on wens, but I am still scratching from all the skeeters. man oh man they were horrible.
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Coop,
How far are you taking the baits out, past the 2nd or 3rd sandbar?
Using Bunkah?
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only had three or four shots so far, the furthest being the edge of the third bar the shortest was between the second and third, used tuna belly, works real well, and bunker, not so well. I have come up with a solution for the bunker though.
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How far are you taking the baits out, past the 2nd or 3rd sandbar?
Using Bunkah?
Steve, one out maybe 250 2nd bar and the other out, maybe 400 + yards where the water was visibily a much deeper blue-green, not sure what bar, but the color of the water was a very deep color and dropped it in it. The reel holds around 800 and figured more than half of the line was dumped out.

I did use bunker. I can't catch anything of the small variety for bait. Harbor Tackle had some bunker that looked like it came right off the boat...fresh, crispy and bloody.
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Thanks Coop,
I'll take the "little" one out to maybe 800 yards and the big one maybe a half mile. See if I can find the real blue stuff.
After dark I'll keep 'em in closer for obvious reasons....
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fished out on the beach of the state park the other day. Had to shoo off some horses that were walking along the surf. Well, one must have gotten caught in my line. It spooled out about all 300 yards of line. Lost my top and bottom rig too. I think it would have been a keeper too, if I had reeled him in.

My nephew is down with me in OP for the summer and wants to catch a shark. Is it possible on a 12'' Ugly Stick with a big spinning reel? I assume we would need a lot of heavy duty line, metal leader and very large hook. Any tips for a first shark fish? Bait, day or night, weight, rigging, anything would help. I have the next 2.5 months off until school gets back in session so we can hit it pretty regularly.

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Old 06-22-2007, 06:58 PM
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PWF:
Anything and everything is possible.
Read through this thread, it's been talked about a lot.
http://www.atlanticanglers.com/forum...-question.html

You can also do a search on "shark rigs" and look through all the threads found.
No need for a repeat of the good stuff.
But as always, if these don't answer your questions, please ask anything you would like.
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