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Originally Posted by Harpoon
just a quick question....I know most were probably using clam. Did you have gulp on at all...or did you see the guys with gulp catching pout at all?
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I did Use Gulp later in the trip and did catch the 2 flounder on it.. I did NOT have the "right" Gulp, I had fresh water red nightcrawler style, and another form that looked like a sand eel.. Gulp did help the catches it seemed, but the pout nailed it every bit as hard as a clam.. Lots of guys stopped putting clam on the hook in favor of plain bare Gulp chartreuse twisters, or pink shrimp, but the pout loved the Gulp every bit as much as clam... Using gulp alone caught ling and flounder, but hundreds of pout as well. The half a gulp worm along with a small piece of clam caught our 2 best fish.. 2 massive flounder..
The bananas were simply too numerous and aggressive.. lots of ling came up with non bluefish bite marks... I could be wrong, but I think the pout were grabbing some of the ling when they got hooked.. They were coming up with big ,round, bloody, "scaled" marks on them, not cut in half like a bluefish bite..
my son and I got a few fish.. 16 ling, 2 big winter flatties, and a sea bass.. It was just a chore trying to deal with dozens of pout for every angler... Drop and reel on the damn things, and when you did hook something else, they grabbed that as well!... Just hope I never see another pout as long as I live!....bob
