glad to be back

[DW]

been away for awhile just wanted to say hi.

[Salty]

WOAH! welcome back you been busy! Love the surfster!

[Herringchoker]

Holy crow!!! Nice looking plugs bub!!! Welcome back!

[handyman]

nice plugs ....didnt relize you were gone.......welcome home

[Andy B]

Love the squid and that greenback popper!

[Salty]

If I was a fish I'd be trying to make love to those squid poppers

[DW]

Thanks guys, Andy; that green back was abducted last November by a 7 foot Tarpon nice long fight that I lost but I got 4 full breach jumps out of him and he towed me around for quit-a-while. I only had 25lb line on with no leader because we where just out for a quick morning run and never dreamed we would jump those Tarpon he eventually ground through that line. 
Handyman, I just got on I think last year and got started on the forum when work got in the way, i haven't had a lot of posts so you guys probably don't recall me. Nevertheless I think I might have a little to offer in helping others and I look forward to participating more on the forum
Salty, The surfster is painted like a mullet and blacktip sharks in the surf love them around daybreak which also means they do not last to long the squid is good on a full moon night especially if you can cast to the third bar.

Thanks for all the nice comments I'll post some more after they dry long enough to paint 

[Salty]

Dumb question but do you get alot of squid down there? NICE spanish!

[Salty]

Only ever caught two of them in my whole life.

[Herringchoker]

Hey nice Mack!!! Those things are reel burners

[DW]

Never caught a squid, but never fished for them either. I do use them for bait occasionally, especially if there are a lot of crabs, them buggers can clean a hook off quick. The squid seams to be harder for them. I have tried those squid lures during the day with no luck it seams they just work at night only when the moon is high. I haven't been able to catch anything on the big pencil popper in the picture, no body uses them down here maybe that is why, that being said I may not know haw to work it properly. Maybe you eastcoasties can throw a texan a bone??

[handyman]

DW go on YOUTUBE theres two vids 1 on how to use a pencil popper and 1 on how to work a  wide mouth popper

[handyman]

Working a Pencil Popper - The Fisherman Magazine

[DW]

yep! I did not know how to work that pencil, That looks much more appealing that how I was working it. We are seeing more and more bluefish down here and I'm enjoying myself with them This just might get me a couple more. The popper I got down I work it several was just depends on the situation. Thanks handyman!

[Salty]

Tnx Handy I posted that this morning but for some reason my computer shuts it's internet connection down when I go to a youtube video now. Got to be something to do with flash I think. So I cut and pasted that then my machine went to intenet lala land and had to be rebooted.