INSANE Jig and Gulp Bite! Heartbreaker Ends Trip
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ค. 2023
- A fishing trip I won't forget as fish often intercepted the simple rig before it hit bottom! Sea Trout (Weakfish) have seen some very lean years in recent decades. This trip gives hope for the future. An attempt at striped bass in the final minutes of the trip ended painfully.
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I grew up on left hand retrieve spinning reels. So when I started using conventional and bait casters I opted for left hand retrieve reels. It was natural for me and they are more abundant that 10 or 20 yrs ago. Love the new camera angle.
same here
ditto
Yup, me too!
Same here. For dropping bait or rigs to the bottom right hand conventionals feel fine, but if I have to cast or work a lure I much prefer having the rod in my dominant hand to give best action
You are absolutely on the spot. It is more natural and omits the need to a handover after every cast!
Being the only lefty in my family grew up using right handed conventional that my Dad and uncle would give to me. John your right, its what we did and was all I saw growing up on LI and fishing every day. Right handed conventional and left handed spinning reels is all I saw. Of course all Penn!!
I grew up using a left handed retrieve spinning reel it is so natural to use my right hand to jig and retrieve with the left. Grew up here on Long Island mostly fishing freshwater
Yep, lefty retrieve for me. Fresh and saltwater. Grew up in the 70's surf fishing in Far Rockaway for fluke and porgy fishing at Beach Channel Drive. Currently I use 9' tsunami airwave , 1-3.25 oz with a Shimano Ultegra 2500, 15 lb. braid and 20lb leader. I know, small reel, it's great for inshore fishing without getting tired of casting. Great video.
Grew up fishing Jamaica Bay and Long Island. Spinning reels were always left handed and conventional were always right handed. I still do it today. Feels weird any other way. Keep up the good work John!! Be safe and ENJOY!!
When I started fishing, I used left handed spinning reels. For 30 years, I’ve only use left handed baitcasting reels. I use them for bass tournaments. My surf reels are all left hand baitcasters. I live in Virginia and fishing up and down the east coast.
Grew up in CT now a RI guy but fish the gut and the sound a lot. Raised conventional right hand reel left handed spinning. When I got serious about my fishing a few years ago in my mid-late 20s and bought more permanent gear I went with left handed conventional. Just bought the avet sx as my go to in L/H.
The new angle is a good addition to your footage 100%
John, I grew up in Boston area and I fish left-handed bait caster, just yesterday in the Key Bridge area of Patapsco River near Baltimore, I caught 40+ stripers on a white 4-inch paddle tail and all where over 20 inches, big was 26. I use a 14 ft-john boat with 25 horse Yamaha and a 65 lb thrust trolling motor. Getting it done by the little john boat. I also use left for all my spinning gear. Your videos are great.
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Love the new angle. I grew up on Long Island using a left handed conventional reel (Penn Surfmaster). It was passed down from my father. His nickname was "Lefty". It's all I've ever used (left handed, not the old Surfmaster 😄 ) .
Great video as usual Sir, the new angle is a great addition! Tight lines 🤘🎣🎣🤘
I’m right handed and every reel I own is set up for a left hand retrieve. I always want that rod in my right hand where it feels most comfortable. I grew up and still live on Eastern Long Island, south shore.
There were only right hand retrieve conventional Penn reels growing up fishing in the late 50's and 60's that I can remember fishing the Long Island Sound and Ocean. I grew up in the Bronx and that is all I remember we used. In the 60's I started using spinning reels in fresh water. They had left hand retrieves and it took a while to get used to that! Thanks for the video John!
Penn made left hand conventional years ago. I have a few vintage Penn lefty’s. Squidder with original box is my fave.
new camera angle is great. sorry for the loss that was a nice striper for sure!
Could be personal preference on the left or right hand retrieve. I prefer left hand retrieve on my bait casters just because all my spinning reels are left side handles!! just what I'm comfortable with.Thanks for another great video John and welcome back up north!! Tight lines..
Ooo...that was a good one on there! Great vid john...liked that cam angle u showed at the beginning too.
I like the new camera angle. Adds interest and gives a clear idea of your retrieve.
Like the new camera angle a lot, I’m right handed all my life with a bait caster I held the rod in left hand and reeled with my right hand, believe it or not last year I bought a new reel and switched holding the rod in my right hand, reeling left handed, just felt normal, can’t explain why the change but just didn’t feel normal the way I did it all my life, I’m 53 now live in Levittown pa, been fishing all my life, learned at a early age to use a bait caster for bass, just bought your skinner fluke rod from Amazon, can’t wait to give it a try with my new Daiwa Lexa reel
I have the Skinner 1-6oz Fluke Rod and a Lexa 300. It’s definitely my favorite boat fishing combo and it easily handled a 44 inch bass last year in addition to dozens of fluke and tog. Unbelievably sensitive too!
Love this video. Your rig is working smooth. Weak fishing brings back good memories of when the weaks infiltrated the Bay off of Amityville and Lindenhurst in the 1970s. We used salty dog lures back then. It is interesting to see that pink colors still work today. The weakfish were everywhere. Good to see them.
Cool camera angle, so thumbs up on that. I am right handed, and have always used (55+ years of fishing) a right hand retrieve on all my reels spinning gear too. I just find it to be overall more comfortable and the switching of the rod back and forth after casting (spinning gear) has never bothered me. Thanks for your videos and sharing your expertise! Tight lines...
Yes - Like the new camera angle!
Enjoying the new angle!
I am a right handed Californian who uses a left hand retrieve baitcaster. It feels more natural for me with my dominant hand controlling the rod and thus using more of my right arm for the cast. It also helps me feel like I’m able to finesse / control all baits better this way.
I like the new camera angle and great video.
A big 👍 on the new camera angle, John. I like the rod in my stronger arm which is my right, and therefore use a bait caster reel with a left handed retrieve. From NY now living in Florida
I like the new camera. Here in Toms River, NJ just about everyone uses the Right Hand on the conventional reels. All mine are RH models
it gets me so excited to see this fantastic species coming back strong..makes me very happy..they are a frikkin treasure of the ocean gamefish
Nice video and great camera angle.
Love the new view
Great fishing! The new camera angle gives a better view. I'm left handed and always used left handed reels - once tried a right handed bait caster, couldn't adapt and just messed things up :-)
Like the new camera angle, I'm right handed grew up fishing in Delaware and also use right retrieve standard reel.
I like the new camera angle John Thanks better perspective too
I write and eat left handed but throw right handed and grew up surf fishing so the left handed retrieve on a spinning real was natural to me. When I started fishing with conventional tackle the right handed retrieve was very unnatural and uncomfortable. Now my personal conventional and bait casting gear (including the same Quantum reel you use) on my boat are all left handed. I hate fishing with anything else. I have a lot of conventual gear for guests. The best part is that i get to keep all my personal gear to myself because no one wants to use the left handed retrieve!
BTY-really like the new camera angle.
Grew up in Jersey, fished the coast with rod on right hand and left retrieve conventional and spin reels. I do the same for my fly rods also. Love the videos, glad to see weak fish back!
New camera angle is solid keep it up 👍🏻
I like the new camera angle. I am switching all my gear to left handed, a permanent arm injury leaves me no choice. Thanks for the video.
Like the new camera angle
Weakfish=Grey Trout in the south, not to be confused with a speckled trout, YES I DO LIKE THE NEW CAMERA ANGLE !
Good stuff John 💪.. I always used a right hand retrieve casting reel from growing up freshwater bass fishing.d
Btw 👍 on the camera location
like the new camera angle because will let us see the retrieve better
Good too see so many weakfish, hopefully their numbers will stay that way in years to come
Another great video thank you
I read like the new fishing camera angle. Robt W
Hi John, I'm from PA but a bass fisherman in 1992 showed me why to use Left hand retrieve reels
It's a no brainer once you realize you did the same since you were a kid with spinning reels
I fish my baitcaster setup (light bottom jigging) with a left hand retrieve. The bigger conventional reel for live lining is right hand retrieve, just personal preference 🤷♂️ Westbrook CT
MS Gulf Coast here, used left handed spinning growing up and right handed baitcasters when I was a teen. Eventually switched to all left handed baitcasters now that they’re becoming more prevalent with gear options. Enjoyed this video, avid speckled trout (cynoscion nebulosus) angler. Cool to see their cousins from the northern states act very similar in a lot of ways. I would like to fish for weakfish (cynoscion regalis) one day.
Like the new angle
I use left retrieve and jig with my dominant right hand. I have so much more control of the rod holding it in my right hand. I always bring my own lefty reel on any party boat I would go on. I grew up fishing out of Freeport with my Dad. Fighting hoards of blues back in the day holding the pole in my left hand made me switch. Now I fish for fluke on my own boat in Port Chester, NY. All I use are Accurist reels because of the Flipping switch as you well know how great they are.
I definitely like the new camera angle
I’m a righty from New England and for conventionals I do like right hand retrieve. For baitcasters I learned with right hand retrieve but found I am actually more comfortable with left hand baitcasters. Sometimes for vertical dropping I still use right-handed BC’s.
Keep up that new camera angle! That’s a really cool perspective.
I switched to a left hand retrieve bait caster about 4 years ago. Now I’ve even switched my spinning rods too. Mostly fish south shore LI near the Jones inlet
I use left hand retrieve bait caster and conventionals when possible. Originally from
LI. In fact I bought the lefty version of the Quantum bait aster you use. I also use a lot of Abu Garcia 5501, 6501, etc. going to also get a 7001. Have a collection of every left hand Penn I can find-especially 9M-LH. Have some 209M-LH, and harder to find vintage reels. Most all the vintage ones are fishable.
The angle from the stern is nice.
When I'm ice fishing I use left hand retrieve quantum accurist and In the summer I use a right hand retrieve. I find for me the I can get more power and control with my left hand above the reel and the rod butt under my right arm like you do where as in the winter the rods I've used aren't designed to be held above the reel so I hold the rod in my right with the butt braced against my forearm and reel with the left hand more like if I was using a inshore spinning rod
I grew up fishing in NJ. Started with the old Penn conventional reels as a kid in the 60s & never even knew there was such a thing as a left hand retrieve casting reel until about 10 years ago.
I remember reading articles where some of the bass masters guys recommended learning to cast left handed so you wouldn't have to switch hands and risk being out of position to hook a fish if it hit as soon as the lure landed.
I tried& found it to be a pain.
I mean, I can't cast accurately with casting gear with my right hand, so I was spending more time untangling birds nests than fishing, trying to cast left handed.
Eventually I found a casting reel with a left handed retrieve that wasn't priced way out of my range.
Now all I buy are lefties, even though I do still have most of my old stuff that I'll keep around in case someone needs to use it.
Left retrieve just feels more comfortable for me.
I can cast better, even though I'm still not good at it, and don't have to switch hands.
I just started using my great grandfather's Shakespeare reel that I refurbished and it was built in the 1950s. It is left handed only and it takes some getting used to. My left arm is my strongest arm. I caught a couple of 6-7 pound wiper on it yesterday no problem on light drag (Although it has silly drag washers, but it has some crazy drag pressure similar to a Penn slammer well oiled)
Like the new camera angle when landing fish we'll get a good idea of size. It's particularly painful when you don't see the fish before it drops the lure, left to wonder. Tight lines!
im from rhode island and i use left handed reels. love the cmara andle
all my conventional are right handers but the baitcasters I use for jigging are left handed just like my spinners lol im from Delaware... where we call them Flounder 😂
I’m right handed and prefer handle on left side. I feel it gives more control of the rod with my dominant hand. I can do either, but prefer left hand.
Mark Keple, Manahawkin, NJ 😎
I can only do left hand retrieve. Fishing over 45 years only. Great content as always and love the new footage style....
I live in Boston MA..
Any camera angle that displays the boat is a good angle
I fish southern NJ my whole life. I always use left hand conventional. For some reason it’s much more comfortable and fluid for me. Like the new angle! Tight lines
From Long Island but went to college in Alabama. Southerns use right handed baitcasters while northerns use left. My theory is that northerns (especially ones closer to salt water) mostly start off with spinning reels, which would make the transition to a right handed baitcaster difficult. Southerners being in an area where largemouth bass fishing is more prevalent, seem to start off with baitcasters which traditionally are right handed. Tight lines!
Super awesome input!
My first reel was a Mitchel spinning and was left hand retrieve. When My son wanted a bait cast reel, we both went for left hand retrieve. He has about 7 and I have 3. control the rod with dominant hand and reel with left. I have the entire right hand side to cup reel, press with thumb and cast. New Jersey - don't judge me!
i like the new angle. use it
John I grew up on North Fork. When I started freshwater in high school. I bought left hand baitcasters. I had a left hand Penn Senator 3/0 or 4/0 I used in Plum Gut early 1990’s. All my new conventional and baitcast are lefty. Seigler, Daiwa, Quantum, Abu, etc.
Amazed you were able to get a lefty senator that long ago. I wonder if the early years of freshwater had an impact on your choice. Thanks for your input.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing think I bought it from WeGo when they where on the water.
I feel up in NY and lice in FL now. I prefer reeling with my left hand. I'm a right but always been somewhat ambidextrous. I prefer to set the hook and fight rod with my dominant hand and reel with left. Keep up the great work Skinner 💪🏼🎣🐟🐟
Keep up the spirit my friend.. Fight. ANGLERsolo is here to monitor the video😊👍🎣🎣
Brooklyn, New York. I retrieve with my right hand on conventional and left hand on spinning.
Grew up in Queens.. moved to Long Island… I use a righty spinning mostly but got a lefty bait caster for blackfish 😅 still looking to upgrade for a bigger lefty conventional … most are righty but I like using my left hand to turn the knobs/reel & my right (dominant) hand to hold the rod. Feels more secure for me that way.
I use left hand retrieve spin and baitcaster reels, better control of my baits. Up in NH.
I like the overhead view, it is a keeper. Are you editing out your by catch for this video? When you made your moves were the fish found at different depths or over were they oriented on structure?
I fish the central sound and I just made the switch from right to left handed baitcasting reels after realizing there’s no loss in transitioning hands with the left handed. Feels exactly like a spinning reel after a few minutes
I've noticed that you go out mostly on the north shore. Any chance of showing us some action on the great south bay around Patchogue?
Lol I love how John halkis pulls up
PNW. I am right handed. If I'm working lures or drift fishing, I use LH crank. If I'm keeping the rod in the rod holder and have to run a boat or net my own fish, I will use RH crank. Biggest issue with boat reels and conventional reels is not many are made LH crank.
Your right about the RH Reel, I'm a lefty and Rh reel was all I've ever used as a kid.. I did get a lt hd reel at some point and it felt weird to use, never liked it. The camera angle looked good, you should use it more often.,,I figured you didn't in this video because you were showing off your rods, cool.
Been fishing over 60yrs, I'm right handed but reel everything left handed, always have. New angle is a keeper.
Connecticut. Camera angle is nice. I'm right-handed but use a left-hand bait caster. Switching back and forth didn't make sense and I use spinners 90% of the time.
I do like the new camera angle. I saw the 2 archs when you came along the weakfish. Was wondering if you had a shot of what flounder/fluke look like on sonar in one of your videos. I have caught flounder and have seen nothing on the sonar.
Fluke don't show on a fishfinder.
Picked up fishing in my 20s down in south jersey, started out bass fishing. Used right hand retrieve at first but it got annoying switching the rod over to my left hand when I cast with my right. I transitioned to left hand retrieve ever since. Faster casting repetition for bedding fish and general fishing overall. It felt so much better, more natural.
The angel is good to see your retrieve. I had no choice but to switch to lefthand conventional reels from an accident. I will say using your dominant arm for a hook sets . Improves you hook set being your dominant arm is faster.
For me, left hand spin and most of my level wind are left hand retrieve. When it comes to guiding the line on it has to be right hand retrieve. Just feels more natural to guide the line with the left thumb.
Very reel I own is left handed haha. My left wrist is pretty shot and it does stiffen up on me after days out. I use a lefty tranx, accurate 300 and seigler. All my other setups are spinners for light jigging and surf. I’m from Jersey City and I caught weakfish last Sunday on that same rig looking for fluke haha. I use 1.5-3 oz bank sinkers at the bottom tho.
Keep the new camera angle. I use right hand retrieve casting reels, left hand retrieve spinning. I tried left hand casting, just didn't feel right. At least my method works well for me in Texas, so it should be good every where else!
I switched to left-handed conventional reels for fishing on the kayak. I have an Old Town Predator PDL with a left-hand tiller, and I found that in an emergency switching the rod back to my right hand was just too long. Having it always in my right hand, I can just stop my retrieve and grab the tiller. I always have a rod in my right hand when I am on the kayak, and I do a lot of trolling. Now that I am used to it, I actually prefer left-hand retrieve. (I'm up in NH.)
I also like the other camera angle.
I grew up in south jersey. My spinning reels are set to left hand retrieve and my conventionals are right hand.
I am right handed and from NJ. I like the right hand retrieve, but also added a left hand retrieve Accurist to my quiver. I do like the left hand retrieve for fluke fishing, but will admit it takes some getting used to. Meaning some muscles you thought weren't really there in one arm are now being worked more in another. I like the concept of the left hand retrieve, BUT it's not really usable on the Skinner Jig and Bounce rod , as it is spiral wrapped for a right hand retrieve reel. Meaning that the twist that the spiral wrap is supposed to cancel out is now amplified. I'm currently debating getting Tackle World to make a Nexus rod to your specs but with a reverse spiral wrap for a left handed retrieve reel.
One thing I will add about left hand retrieve. You will notice very quickly how much work your right arm will be doing all day. On a right hand retrieve, you jig with your right arm you would move the rod from hand to hand after a hook set. This switch alleviates the constant pressure from your right arm. Now with a left hand retrieve and you have constant pressure on the muscles on your right arm. I believe that a left hand retrieve rod will alleviate this stress, but until I try one, I wont know for sure.
It's funny you mention right handed conventional reels. I use left handed everything, and it is quite an adjustment for me to use right handed conventional reels on boats. 90% of the time I use my own rods and reels, but when I don't, I am stuck with using right handed reels on every single boat I have ever been on. Errr...lol
I think it depends on whether or not you are casting and while you are using a compact baitcasting reel, you are not casting, so the right hand crank is not a big deal.
If you were casting and not just dropping, you usually want the crank opposite your casting arm.
So you will see a lot of right handed casting people, who actively cast, like bass fisherman or inshore baitcasting fisherman with their crank on the left, so they don't need to switch hands after the cast.
Since you are bottom fishing with a compact baitcasting reel, like the conventional reels you mentioned, it doesn't much matter.
I'm a southpaw, so I actually cast with my left hand and mostly use inshore baitcasting reels, so the right hand crank is perfect.
I like the boat! What type & size is it? Looks perfect for fishing the bay or sound - thx
I'm from the Bronx and I use a left hand retrieve even though I'm right handed. I like using my dominant arm to hold the rod.
Two years ago my fiancé had a porgy on and needed help getting the hook out. I put my rod in the holder and reeled it up a few turns then went over to help her out. I got her porgy off and we both notice my rod double over and I jump across the boat and pull tight. Turned out to be two weakfish in the 20”+ range on the same buctail and teaser rig!
Lefty spinning, righty conventional. Grew up on baitcasters in Virginia Beach (the kind without a free spool, knuckle buster). Delaware now. New angle is cool.
I grew up on the Joisey Shore. When I started using conventional on the jettys for stripers I first used RHR. I quickly questioned the efficiency of switching grips/hands every cast. I hunted down an Abu Garcia C3 LHR and absolutely loved it.( not easy to find LHR reels back in the 80s n 90s. ) Throwing plugs you cast a lot. It's just logical to me.
However I do like a RHR when there's no level wind and bait fishing. I'll hold the rod with my left hand and use my left thumb to guide the line. That's more natural feeling to me.
I wasn't far from you, especially by way of water/boat but have used LHR for many decades. I might have come across 1 or 2 others but can't remember any specific meetings. I guess it's not very common where I fished, but we are out here.
Edit. PS. I am right handed with everything except at Hockey 🏒. I use left handed sticks.
Grew up largemouth bass fishing in NJ with left hand spinning gear. Bought my first freshwater baitcaster and it felt stupid and inefficient to be switching hands to cast (I’m right handed) so I went left hand retrieve. Dropping bait from a boat it doesn’t matter to me left or right but if I’m casting a lot or putting action on a lure I want to use my dominant hand. Worth noting that I didn’t start using conventionals and baitcasters until recently and left hand versions are now very available. If I grew up fishing from a boat with only right hand reels available at the time then I’m sure that would feel natural too.
Growing up fishing in lake and California Delta for striper using heavy surf spinning reel with left hand crank with 12 foot rods, first-time fish with a conventional is an abu garcia ambassador right hand, captain Dave hooked on a stingray and he told me to reel in it because he dont want to 😂😂 i was busting my knuckles because not familiar with the handle was was drawing a square with every spin 😂😂
Hey John. What are the final bass restrictions going to be? Personally I would be just fine with C&R only because that's what I do now with an occasional exception. I would really love to know your position if your willing to share. Sorry for the thread bomb.
From NJ. Started off with left handed spinner. Then when started using conventional all bait shop ever had was right hand retrieve so that was just how it was. Left handed spinner and right handed conventional
down in South Jersey the conventional wisdom is that weakfish are named for their weak mouth so you always use a net. You are lifting them in to the boat by the leader without any problem.
I think the weak mouth thing is exaggerated. I remember the first one I ever hooked as a little kid I lost it at the shore because I was too afraid to pull on it.