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Rigging 14" Hogy "Wacky Style"
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Wacky style rigging is a "finesse" technique that originated in largemouth bass circles.  The rig has traditionally been associated with smaller baits, comprised with a hook placed in the center of the bait with the action generated from twitching of the rod. I see advantage to "wacky fishing" is that you can get a tremendous amount of action from a soft-bait while its suspended in just one area such as defined structure where you know where big fish are holding. |
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Destination Vineyard Sound: A Bonito and Albie Guide
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By Captain Mike Hogan
Sometimes I wonder if the arrival of these "funny fish" each late July is a blessing or a curse. Each year, I can count on casting to breaking fish somewhere in Vineyard Sound and not being able to "crack the code." Perhaps that's why it's so rewarding when the bite is on. Although these speedsters can be hard to catch, one silver lining is that they hang in this region consistently through September while at the northernmost point of their migration. This is because the cooler water at the Cape's elbow and beyond serves as a boundary to these warm water fish. As a result, they are well contained in Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds as they gorge themselves on sand eels, juvenile squid and other forage that will fuel their southern journey. To a boater putting in on the upper-cape, this means easy access to all the usual haunts and a very likely chance of hooking up, and very possibly chance of a Cape Cod Grand Slam, consisting of a bonito, albie, bass and bluefish.
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What's Up with Waders
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By Gene Bourque
 As far as I'm concerned, being someone who does most of his fishing in the surf or in freshwater rivers, my waders are my next most important piece of fishing gear after my rod and reel. I've owned dozens of pairs over the last forty or so years and have followed most of the trends beginning with old-school heavy rubber numbers, right up to today's latest generation of breathables. One thing you should know right from the start: All waders must be looked at as a temporary investment at best. In other words, sooner or later, all waders will leak. While it's true that very inexpensive ones will give you a cold, nasty surprise sooner than the fancy ones costing hundreds of dollars, you can be sure water will find its way in at some point with all of them. So the question is, how can you get the most from your investment? Of equal importance is making an educated guess about how and where you'll be using them. The best you can hope for is your waders will give you the maximum amount of use before they are tossed, and you have some degree of control over that. More about that later.
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Prepping for a Winter Fishing Trip
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by Gene Bourque  One of the best parts of living in New England is the change of season. Even though we sometimes look at places like San Diego with its almost perfect year-round weather and imagine how nice that would be, most swamp Yankees I know like being able to look forward to something different. And besides, if our weather was perfect all the time, what we have to complain about?  If you're into skiing, snowboarding or zooming around on a snow machine, winter is great and maybe even a bit too short. Along the coast though, snow is not something most of us look forward to. Worse yet, more typical is day after dreary day of high 30-degree weather, with perhaps a bit of mixed precipitation just to make things a little more depressing. Most fishermen do what they can to get out and feed the need to fish, either by heading north to drill holes in the ice or bundling up and trying for a few trout in ponds that haven't frozen, or a few sad little holdover schoolies in some of the estuaries |
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Hope you've enjoyed this issue of Hogy Lures
E-magazine! In the next few months we'll be bringing you stories and tips about
fishing destinations we've visited, techniques we've used with success with
Hogy Premium Baits and other lures, and a variety of fishing tales. Please send
us any ideas for subjects you'd like to see covered, and digital images of fish
taken with Hogys will be put up in our gallery. Best of luck and Tight Lines!
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The 10" Hogy Double Wide is still a relatively new product for us and is quickly becoming my favorite fall bait for striped bass that are very interested big bunker. Although it's nearly three times the girth and weight of the original 10" Hogy, it still uses all the same hooks and rigs as the 10" Hogy.
The Double Wide Hogy has its own action. Its wider girth presents a slightly less serpentine action than some of our other baits and wobbles more like a large bait fish. Hence, the Double Wide Hogy is very effectively fished "walking the dog." The bait will behave very differently depending on retrieve speed and rod action. I'll either retrieve in a very fast manner with fast sharp twitches, making that soft bait wiggle or slow, with more moderate twitches.