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[crab_n_fisher]

I initially started off with 1/0 J-hooks for Whiting, then went down to a size two. Still having too much pecking and bait shrimp stolen, I found a number four hook was best....

What is your choice?

[mantis]

I catch whiting on a 1/0. Shrimp are quite easy to pluck off a hook if the fish doesn't take it in one gulp. Pinch the shrimp in half or give Fishbites a try.

[captfrankie]

I always had my best luck using a #1 gold aberdeen J-hook. Try using a smaller piece of shrimp if you keep getting robbed. The fresher the shrimp the better it works.
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[crab_n_fisher]

I use the same hooks for croaker. And I do match hook size to the shrimp... Often, I'll pinch the "average-sized" shrimp (whatever that is!) into three pieces.....So basically a piece about an inch to inch-and-a-half long to bait the hook.

I use two triple drop leaders attached, so that I can have four hooks available for these bait stealers! (I use a slip sinker on the main line, then bead, then attach two triple drop leaders, one connected to another.)

If anyone knows how I can build an eight drop leader for surf fishing, please post up!

[crab_n_fisher]

By building an eight drop leader, I am not implying that I do not know how to fish! LOL ..... I get tired of my bait being stolen out in the surf; and with each tumble of my tackle on the ocean floor, the current can make it feel as if a fish is biting!

I love to show a double hook up -- on the same boat, while out fishing for bass. I can hook two Stripers or White Bass on the same lure.....So that gives ya a hint that I know how to hook 'em!

But these Whiting and Croaker drive me nuts! Since I've gone down to #4 hooks, I keep catching the tiniest of fish! (Mostly five-to-seven inchers)... I guess I could go back up to a #1 or 1/0 hook, to catch the bigger ones?

[Big John]

Use a four drop, mono leader with 2-0 circle hooks and fishbites. Use the green or yellow ones, cut in half, with a small teaser peice of shrimp, and toss on the back of the furtherst sandbar you can reach and you should pick up a few pomps as well as all the whiting you can stand to clean.
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[crab_n_fisher]

Big John,


Thanks for the advice. However, I've never seen a four drop leader anywhere in the Houston area!

Fishbites? I've only used 'em once. At tackle shops the price on the bag scares me! .....Again, thank you!

[Big John]

You can order them online, and with two bags or more the shipping is free. Consider that it works so well, and that it cannot be robbed by pinfish and the like, it is a bargain.

You have to tie your own. By some 50lb clear mon leader material. Tie a 1 foot drop every 1 foot, with one more foot down to your weight clip at the very bottom. A four drop leader should be 5 feet long.
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[crab_n_fisher]

I'll order some fishbites today...

For some reason you remind me of a couple stoners I met last year -- that is, due to your story! .....Fishbites do not even look like anything natural in the ocean, but I know it works as bait. Anyways, these two guys had a girl drive them up to the Intra Coastal Waterway late one night; and they wanted to go fishing.....What was there bait? ....Don't even ask! It was a crawdad lure! LOL ..... They'd claimed they once caught a flounder with it, by letting it sit still on the bottom of the water, to rest upon the sand! )