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Cuz · #1 07-07-2013, 09:09 AM

Jumped on board for a relaxing half day trip. We fished at the mouth of the bay. Flynn's Knoll area. There was a good keeper ratio for a change. I caught seven total. Three keepers on 2 oz. ''Keyport Joe" Fishler's tandom hook jigs tipped with Shop-Rite whole smelts. Nothing like fresh fluke for dinner. The fishing is about to turn around as soon as the wind direction does.

TimM · #2 07-07-2013, 02:03 PM

Shop rite has em fresh or frozen ? The smelts ?
Nice job

Cuz · #3 07-09-2013, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by TimM

Shop rite has em fresh or frozen ? The smelts ?
Nice job

Buy the frozen as they melt fairly quick in this weather. Thirty smelts (2 lbs.) for $4.99. The "fresh" ones are frozen ones already melted. Pay attention to what you are buying as they also sell the cleaned, without the heads on smelts. They are useless.
I bring a bag of them every trip. I keep a small cooler with ice chunks in it for all my bait. I take out a dozen at a time. At the end of the trip I usually have some left in the cooler still frozen for the next time.