Key design features that enable excellent casting include a smooth bail and line roller to fluently release line and prevent nasty backlash and wind knots
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The sea is oily and impenetrable, pale blue and gold over black
This consists of a silver plated spoon or bits of mother of pearl worked into proper shape, and other ingenious contrivances. At the time, shore-based striper fishing was primarily a bait fishery but, as noted in Foresters 1849 book Fish and Fishing of the US , in the heaviest of surfs of the Atlantic on the outer beaches, they [striped bass] are captured of great size with a bone fashioned with hooks or a metal squid. By the early 20th Century, while some savvy anglers threw tin squids, metal jigs, lead bucktails, or homemade plugs from shore bait still dominated the scene
Dont be afraid to let the lure pause mid-retrieve cod will often hit on the drop
All of us anglers will be fishing in Willie Wonkas chocolate milk for quite a while