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Stripers and Bluefish! We are your number one supplier of plug building
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Casting
Eggs
New design for 2009 includes the brad installed
to hold the hook in flight as done by Jerry Sylvester in the 50's!
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1 oz and 2 oz casting eggs, a technique
developed long ago by the pioneers of Striped Bass fishing. Used as a
floating weight to cast with spinning gear for fishing around rocks etc, tie
the unweighted side to your line, then you tie a short length of mono with a fly
teaser/deceiver fly to the other weighted side, the egg will float and have a "roly
poly" action on top which attracts fish, then they see your fly etc and hit
it! I will allow you to
fish areas you normally can't due to excessive rocks etc. JUST the places
that Striped Bass and most gamefish like to hang out :)
The eggs are very aerodynamic and cast very well! We've had these used
worldwide on many different kinds of fish.
Absolutely deadly technique!Ideally the best way to rig this is with a
4-5' leader of 30-40lb fluoro, and use the nail to hang the hook on the egg.
Cast and the force of the wind keeps the fly, clam belly, sluggo, etc
together with the egg. The egg lands and the force of the splash will cause
the hook to fall off...fish it in! Some
people have rigged these with swivels just above the egg also, I'm told it
allows a better cast, I have not rigged these like this so I cannot comment
on how well it works, just passing along ideas people have done with these.
These casting eggs will work with many small items
such as Redgills, flies, sluggos rigged unweighted, clam bellys (elastic
band on a bait hook), even a small shiner! I
originally found this idea in a book at the Library and saw it as a neat
idea, we tried it and it worked sweet! Over the last 9 years we have sold
thousands of these eggs.
At shows in the Spring-time, many people inquire about them because they
have heard or read about them in a magazine or have seen someone using one
on a beach.
Once it's explained to them how they work it invariably results in a sale.
Many many many times people come back the next year and comment on how many
fish they caught using these. It's a lost art type of fishing!
I recommend to people that they pre-rig these with a fly and put them in a
small zip lock bag in either your boat or tackle bag,
this way you don't have to fumble with tying knots on the water, you can
open it up, clip it on and start fishing in seconds. |
Stainless steel through-wired
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Here's a closeup of how this is rigged,
the fly is a Ron's stripercandy teaser hook.
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"I bought a couple of the casting eggs from
you and they work great!
I put a 3' 30lb leader on with a large white deceiver fly and caught black fin
tuna off the beach most fish were in the 15lb 20lb range."
"Love your plugs! I have a couple
of your swimmers and your casting egg, they rock."
"Met
you at the Somerset show. Those Eggs work!"
"I have to tell
you that egg rigged with a slug-go is my go to setup lately. I have caught
so many fish with it!"
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