Bob & Mag

there would be no confusion if they would simply take a bite out of a pogy LOL.

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74Formula233

I know of 2 people this year that caught big fluke on pogy chunks (1/3 sections) while bass fishing

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Andy

Big Fluke are meat eaters they will eat most anything i caught a few big fluke on live eels go figure

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Scup

I never thought of clipping their fins. When you live line a live Scup, the bass knows that something is wrong with the Scup as he just does not swim right and therefore he becomes a target for whatever wants to prey on him. Right now I have been using live eels only because I have a surplus of them. If my supply of eels ran out, I would switch to live scup. Only yesterday, I was scup fishing and fouled hooked a large scup. When I got him to the surface, a 26 inch bass (a guess on my part) followed him up. My guess would be the bass knew the scup was in trouble and therefore was easy pickings, but was looking him over to determine if he could woof him down. This happens a lot when I fish the reefs in that I was get a large yank on my rod as I am reeling in a scup; far too much of a pull for the scup to have generated. It is easy to tell what hit the scup: if a bass hit him hard, you will see a slight indentation where the bass had him in his mouth, if the scup was cut in two it was a blue. I have never caught a blue or a bass on a scup that I had hooked while scup fishing but dozens of times I have had blues and bass try to take a scup that I hooked and was reeling him in. The problem is obvious, since when scup fishing I use a #1 hook and am always reeling the scup in with the hook buried in his mouth, there is no way I could ever end up hooking a predator fish. The bass will hold on until I eventually pull the scup out of his mouth or the bass pulls the scup off the #1 hook and wins his prize. When a blue hits the scup, things are much simpler. The scup will be cut right in half clean. It amazes me how easily a blue could chop a large scup in two. It happens in a fraction of a second. You would be reeling in a decent sized scup and then you still feel that you have something but all the weight and fight goes right out of the fish. When you get him to the surface, you have a half a fish. I would need a machete to be able to cut a fish in half like that, yet a blue can do it in a blink of an eye.

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fishcounterbob

I have caught many bass on scup without a hook set. Just have the net ready.
With a knife cut off the pectoral fins and the porgy can not swim upright as it is always compensating for that lost stability. Much like a snagged bunker falls out of the schools pattern and becomes the primary target as the weak link in the school.

AlloyToy

Shad strips work quite well also. We've had very good luck with them.......

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