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Hogy Fundamentals: Hook Up Ratio and Big Soft Baits
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By Captain Mike Hogan
 Missing a fish that crashes your bait is perhaps the most frustrating moment an angler can experience. Unlike simply having a "slow" day, you actually see the fish, hear the fish, and may be even feel the fish if it gets a chance to rip some line. What makes matters even worse is the fact that the missed opportunity can often be avoided. This month we'll discuss hook up ratios and what you can do to increase yours.
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Weighting Soft Baits
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By Captain Mike Hogan
 Many of our Hogy products are soft-jerk bait style, so they are designed as a lure that can be fished on or just under the surface. But that doesn't preclude you from weighting them when the fish are deeper in the water column or you have heavy surf or windy casting conditions to contend with. The big advantage here is that soft-baits can be weighted in many different ways, which gives you many options compared to most hard baits.
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Book Review - The Art of Surfcasting with Lures
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Author: Zeno Hromin (2007)
 The last decade has seen a huge resurgence in interest in the use of artificial lures for striped bass. It wasn't that long ago that if you wanted to fish with a wooden lure for stripers, you were pretty much limited to products from Gibbs, and soft plastics were just about unheard of in striper circles. All that changed very quickly though, and today's anglers have a huge array of effective lures that will tempt even the most wary cow bass. The problem is, many of the younger anglers on the scene today don't know the differences between how to fish a darter and a swimmer, a popper and a Danny, a needlefish and big soft plastic. That's why Zeno Hromin's new book is so valuable - some of the handcrafted wooden beauties on the wall cost five or even ten times as much as a mass-produced hard plastic lure. Are they worth it? You bet - but only if you know how, where and when to fish them.
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Soft Bait Spreader Bars: A Small Bait Solution for Big Water |
The school blue fin that day several seasons ago were keyed in on something as evidenced by crashing pods everywhere, but we found ZERO interest in any of the "usual" baits behind the boat.
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