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Guys I just wanted to share my first tog catching experience. I say tog catching because my first tog fishing experience happened this past Spring for the first time and I had more snags then bites.
So for the second time in my life in trying to target tog we head up to Ocean City around 11pm on a Fri night(10/13). Arrived, parked and slept at the bait shop around 3am. Woke up at 6am and had a nice Royal Farms chicken biscuit...yummy.
We loaded up on green crabs and sand fleas and headed to our first destination, OC inlet.
Weapon of choice - 7 ft Teramar MH paired with Stradic 4000. 30lb braid main line and 50 lb mono rigs. (Thanks Rob Choi for the awesome "How-to" on your site)
My first fish was actually a Sheepshead which Ive never caught before either. It fell in the cracks of the rocks which was kind of disappointing because I wanted a pic. It was about 9-11 inches. Second fish was about a 14" tog.
To sum it up, from 7am to about 3pm we consistently caught tog on both baits from two locations in OC. I don't think their was a bait preference from the tog but crabs held on better. Between the two of us we caught about 40 + tog. They all ranged from about 8" to 15.95". No keepers, sadly.
I had some expectations of how the bite would be but had no idea tog fishing is so much fun. They literally attacked our bait as soon as we fell into the holes before hitting bottom. It was a very memorable fishing experience and my forearm paid for it.
This experience leads me to wonder:
Are tog this aggressive in the fall making them easier to catch? Are the bigger ones only accessible by boat or kayak? Keep in mind they raised the limit to 16" from 14" last yr. We would have def had some fish to take home. How much of a difference is it to fish from shore or yak when targeting tog. I know current can be an issue and trying to stay put. Are there less snags?
So for the second time in my life in trying to target tog we head up to Ocean City around 11pm on a Fri night(10/13). Arrived, parked and slept at the bait shop around 3am. Woke up at 6am and had a nice Royal Farms chicken biscuit...yummy.
We loaded up on green crabs and sand fleas and headed to our first destination, OC inlet.
Weapon of choice - 7 ft Teramar MH paired with Stradic 4000. 30lb braid main line and 50 lb mono rigs. (Thanks Rob Choi for the awesome "How-to" on your site)
My first fish was actually a Sheepshead which Ive never caught before either. It fell in the cracks of the rocks which was kind of disappointing because I wanted a pic. It was about 9-11 inches. Second fish was about a 14" tog.
To sum it up, from 7am to about 3pm we consistently caught tog on both baits from two locations in OC. I don't think their was a bait preference from the tog but crabs held on better. Between the two of us we caught about 40 + tog. They all ranged from about 8" to 15.95". No keepers, sadly.
I had some expectations of how the bite would be but had no idea tog fishing is so much fun. They literally attacked our bait as soon as we fell into the holes before hitting bottom. It was a very memorable fishing experience and my forearm paid for it.
This experience leads me to wonder:
Are tog this aggressive in the fall making them easier to catch? Are the bigger ones only accessible by boat or kayak? Keep in mind they raised the limit to 16" from 14" last yr. We would have def had some fish to take home. How much of a difference is it to fish from shore or yak when targeting tog. I know current can be an issue and trying to stay put. Are there less snags?
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