A little calmer than when you brought in the last shark, lol. I was glad to see he wasn’t hooked the same way as the striper so you didn’t have to reach down inside to get the hook loose. Great video, John. Thanks.
Fantastic surfishing video. Absolutely my favorite way to fish For bass. Under the cover of darkness with an eel, rocks and moving water. Thank you sir.
Hoping you had a nice summer! We had crazy striper fishing this summer in NH! Few more months and it’s time to go to pine island! Looking forward to it! Charter fishing has been great!
Wow John! Incredible video! Glad to see some bass fishing using eels... I was hoping you would post a video with eels... Did the hook fall out or did the line break? Thanks for post. Scott
Cheap Sneakers a few sizes too big is my go to! so much lighter than any wading shoe and you can really feel the difference on the long death marches to the spots.
I do a lot of bunker chunking for stripers. Those gamakatsu’s with the bent eye end up hooking the bass deep all the time. The straight eye hooks like owner and mustad in line circles almost never do. I don’t know if it has something to do with the eye or something else, but i never use the gamas anymore.
What a scrap! I am always amazed what can be caught with skill and very good equipment. You might be getting a new set of drag washers soon if you keep catching those sharks.
Stephen check your Guides on the rod you may have a chip on the ceramic any nick on them will cut your line like a knife. I’ve lost many lures before I realized what was happening. Hope this helps 🎣
Where is the line breaking? Right where you tie the leader on or farther back? I can never get teh hang of a palomar so I use a modified clinch knot. Twice through the ring then 7-10 twists depending on the weight/brand. I always had really good luck with sufix 832 when I lived on the coast. Not as sticky as the daiwa 8 strand I've used and a little thinner for its weight. It's very slippery and knots are unforgiving but as long as you do the extra twists and keep it organized it's good. Lasts a long time. Not as great on the rocks but very good all around. If you're using power pro then you're better off just throwing your lures and another thirty bucks in the water, walking home, and trying to untie micro wind knots in a nice dry closet.
Check your guides for sharp edges or cracks, especially the tip guide! Same thing happened to me, lost a few good plugs before I realized the tip was slicing through the braid like a hot knife through butter. A small crack had somehow developed in what was an old chrome tip on a vintage rod, replaced it with one with a ceramic inner diameter ring.
Question: Hi John, I'm heading to Nantucket for Labor day week. I giving it my 1st real shot from the surf at Bonito's and False Albacore as well as Stripers and Blues. Would you recommend I use a leader and power clip? If so what are your recommendations? Or is it ok, just to use the braid to lure. I'm using a 9ft St. Croix Triumph Travel rod and Penn Slammer III 4500 with 20 lbs. Power Pro V2. I'm so stoked for this trip!!! I appreciate any feedback
I tried using braid right to my plugs (via a swivel) when I first switched from mono to braid, after about three casts in the surf I got tired of untangling the braid from the hooks on the plugs, it’s amazing how many knots braid can tie itself into around hooks. I always use a nominal 3 foot leader with tactical clips like John has described in many of his videos. With the leader, if hook tangles do happen in the surf, they are easily undone.
For albies no clip. I have about a 3-foot leader of 20# seaguar fluoro joined to the braid through a small stainless barrel swivel, like a 100# tsunami stainless, then tie the leader direct to the jig. For bass and blues 50# leader and a clip are fine.
Hi John, nice catch. I've been using offshore angler fluorocarbon made by seaguar, it's about half the price of the blue label by seaguar. Wondering if you have an opinion on the quality difference, understanding ofcourse, you may not have used the product, maybe you know someone who has tried it? So far no issues with it.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing I'm on the list for your rod. unfortunately I'm not able to pre order. though i have the accurist reel, upgraded handle, and plenty of your buck tails. i may take a trip up there in a week or so. I'm looking forward to some nice flounder. thanks for your response.
How deep is the water where you’re casting to and think the strippers will be? Is it a gradual slope into deep water or there is a drop off out in the water? Thanks
@@JohnSkinnerFishing once again thank you for replying. You’re such a good dude. I can’t wait what you’re getting ready to catch tonight or in the am / both 🤝🎣☀️ 🌙
Hey John had a shark swim past me the 2 nights ago not even a foot away from me. In the same area you are. Any idea what type of sharks in that area? Great video by the way.
Hey John do you put a sinker on the live eel rig ? and also I don’t do much surf fishing I mostly do inshore fishing I only have one surf rod I have a 9 foot mh Tsunami trophy 2 Is that a good rod for live eel fishing ?
@@JohnSkinnerFishing Interesting, in NJ & NYC I heard reports of False Albies in the last day or so. Still waiting on a North Fork sheepshead try out. Tight lines John
I caught three fish with hikory shad chunks and one with a eel one I lost at the rock but all of them have had the circle hook deep in the throat or in the gut I absolutely hate the circle hooks there so stupid one of the fish was 44 inches and I had to cut the line because It was so deep in it's gut I have yet too see a circle hook work like it's soposed to .
Outstanding John. I thought you forgot about shore fishing 😆. Love the new balance dad shoes ! That’s ol skool!
we are all still waiting for nike to sponsor John so we all can be sporting the new Nike Air Skinners
Just incredible John. And you got your eel back! You have nerves of steel and the skill of an absolute master. Tremendous video!
A little calmer than when you brought in the last shark, lol. I was glad to see he wasn’t hooked the same way as the striper so you didn’t have to reach down inside to get the hook loose. Great video, John. Thanks.
There are fishing videos and then there are skinner videos! Salut to you sir!
The man, the myth, the legendary 🙌, ladies and gentlemen can I get a round of applause 👏for the one the only Jhhhooon Skiiiiinnnneer.
Fantastic surfishing video. Absolutely my favorite way to fish
For bass. Under the cover of darkness with an eel, rocks and moving water.
Thank you sir.
Great video John, thanks for sharing this adventure. Stay well too!
What a great video, hearing the line against the rock. Awesome step by step guide John. The 👀 we pretty cool way out there. 👍🎣
Solid fish, congrats! And glad to see you know your species and was able to keep him in the water.
That same technique of letting off the drag and holding the spool with your hand works extremely well with tarpon
Experience landed that fish incredible stuff John!
Nice tip on how to handle a fish on or around a rock. Thanks John! 👍
I'm always amazed at how much abuse line will take against a rock if you ease up.
John Skinner: “The chances of me landing this fish are pretty slim”
LANDS FISH
Awesome! Thanks for the tips,especially regarding the rocks👍🏾
Awesome catch what a fish
Good work man! I've found the red or particularly the green headlamp thwarts the insects. Cool catch!
Hoping you had a nice summer! We had crazy striper fishing this summer in NH! Few more months and it’s time to go to pine island! Looking forward to it! Charter fishing has been great!
That's great to hear on the stripers! I'm sure we'll cross paths down there.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing Hopefully maybe even get out on the water together!
Skinner an amazing night!
Awesome job John! We miss the surf vids
Me too, but it's been a slow summer and it's fluke season.
Now this is what I have been waiting for. Nice vid.
Wow John! Incredible video! Glad to see some bass fishing using eels... I was hoping you would post a video with eels...
Did the hook fall out or did the line break?
Thanks for post.
Scott
The leader was cut by the teeth.
Great fish handling John . I always advocate for handling fish as little as possible. I taught this to my daughter
Awesome john ! Suffering thru the sand flies for our entertainment. Thanks .Jeez do you ever sleep ?
Cheap Sneakers a few sizes too big is my go to! so much lighter than any wading shoe and you can really feel the difference on the long death marches to the spots.
really nice video, love this content
Amazing catches as always!
I do a lot of bunker chunking for stripers. Those gamakatsu’s with the bent eye end up hooking the bass deep all the time. The straight eye hooks like owner and mustad in line circles almost never do. I don’t know if it has something to do with the eye or something else, but i never use the gamas anymore.
how are you connecting them - snell or some sort of knot?
@@N2theBlue1 snell always
Incredible, John!!!
That’s awesome man .
What a scrap! I am always amazed what can be caught with skill and very good equipment. You might be getting a new set of drag washers soon if you keep catching those sharks.
And then gets the eel back. Legend
Good way to test a rod!
Mr. Skinner, the living legend
Wow, I gotta hit the sound. Always on the south shore, I never think about the sound but clearly I should be.
Wow very impressive John awesome sight fishing! At night!
Have you thought about investing in a nice mounted night vision camera?
Any intel where some big blue fish are in the sound?? Also did you cut the line off that brown? If so why couldn’t you take the hook out?
The fish bit through the leader on the beach. Blues in the gut.
The bugs are driving me CRAZY just watching this John, how you weren't going insane, I have no idea!
I was distracted.
I enjoyed the striper over the shark lol
I wanna go fishing with professor skinner more then anything
Any tips on casting with braid? I’ve been losing a lot of lures lately. Do you recommend any knots and/or casting methods? Thanks!
Palomar knot. Daiwa-JBraid 8 strand behaves well for me.
Stephen check your Guides on the rod you may have a chip on the ceramic any nick on them will cut your line like a knife. I’ve lost many lures before I realized what was happening. Hope this helps 🎣
Where is the line breaking? Right where you tie the leader on or farther back? I can never get teh hang of a palomar so I use a modified clinch knot. Twice through the ring then 7-10 twists depending on the weight/brand.
I always had really good luck with sufix 832 when I lived on the coast. Not as sticky as the daiwa 8 strand I've used and a little thinner for its weight. It's very slippery and knots are unforgiving but as long as you do the extra twists and keep it organized it's good. Lasts a long time. Not as great on the rocks but very good all around.
If you're using power pro then you're better off just throwing your lures and another thirty bucks in the water, walking home, and trying to untie micro wind knots in a nice dry closet.
Check your guides for sharp edges or cracks, especially the tip guide! Same thing happened to me, lost a few good plugs before I realized the tip was slicing through the braid like a hot knife through butter. A small crack had somehow developed in what was an old chrome tip on a vintage rod, replaced it with one with a ceramic inner diameter ring.
hi, enjoying every moment. did you think to guide from shore? I know you could come on the boat (Skinner package) but how about shore guide? I am in!
Sorry, I'm not a surf guide.
anybody remember who made the plastic eel shown in the beginning? I used to get them at efinger and haven't seen them since they closed
Check out Gravity Tackle's hand poured eel baits.
Nice one, not as big the one you had last year, you got him in.
I was very surprised I could land it.
Question: Hi John, I'm heading to Nantucket for Labor day week. I giving it my 1st real shot from the surf at Bonito's and False Albacore as well as Stripers and Blues. Would you recommend I use a leader and power clip? If so what are your recommendations? Or is it ok, just to use the braid to lure. I'm using a 9ft St. Croix Triumph Travel rod and Penn Slammer III 4500 with 20 lbs. Power Pro V2. I'm so stoked for this trip!!! I appreciate any feedback
I tried using braid right to my plugs (via a swivel) when I first switched from mono to braid, after about three casts in the surf I got tired of untangling the braid from the hooks on the plugs, it’s amazing how many knots braid can tie itself into around hooks. I always use a nominal 3 foot leader with tactical clips like John has described in many of his videos. With the leader, if hook tangles do happen in the surf, they are easily undone.
For albies no clip. I have about a 3-foot leader of 20# seaguar fluoro joined to the braid through a small stainless barrel swivel, like a 100# tsunami stainless, then tie the leader direct to the jig. For bass and blues 50# leader and a clip are fine.
Hi John, nice catch. I've been using offshore angler fluorocarbon made by seaguar, it's about half the price of the blue label by seaguar. Wondering if you have an opinion on the quality difference, understanding ofcourse, you may not have used the product, maybe you know someone who has tried it? So far no issues with it.
Hey John when was this video shot ? Trying to map out my fall plans as far as big Stripers down here on the south fork of the island…
Just before the storm.
that's big catch, bigger than my catching bro...
another great video. thanks for posting. any idea where i can find your signature series jigging rod for flounder? j&h told me in october.
It's been hard to keep in stock. It's only at J&H. Pre-order if he allows it.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing I'm on the list for your rod. unfortunately I'm not able to pre order. though i have the accurist reel, upgraded handle, and plenty of your buck tails. i may take a trip up there in a week or so. I'm looking forward to some nice flounder. thanks for your response.
How deep is the water where you’re casting to and think the strippers will be? Is it a gradual slope into deep water or there is a drop off out in the water? Thanks
12 ft
That was a heck of a night to say the least !! What time at night around John was that ?
The bass was early, but the shark around midnight.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing once again thank you for replying. You’re such a good dude. I can’t wait what you’re getting ready to catch tonight or in the am / both 🤝🎣☀️ 🌙
Hey John had a shark swim past me the 2 nights ago not even a foot away from me. In the same area you are. Any idea what type of sharks in that area? Great video by the way.
Brown shark probably.
Wow intense 😅🙌
What was the reel? Looks like a Spinfisher VI 5500 but I might be wrong
Spinfisher 6500 BLS
Hey John do you put a sinker on the live eel rig ? and also I don’t do much surf fishing I mostly do inshore fishing I only have one surf rod I have a 9 foot mh Tsunami trophy 2 Is that a good rod for live eel fishing ?
Yes on the rod, no sinker.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing ok cool thanks John
Was wondering about you John. Did the storm have any impact out that way? I'm interested to see what it's like when I'm at Orient soon...
Zero impact from the storm.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing Interesting, in NJ & NYC I heard reports of False Albies in the last day or so. Still waiting on a North Fork sheepshead try out. Tight lines John
I was waiting for a classic striper video
Awesome!
Nice catch, but i really hate catching sharks!!!
North Shore towards Montauk?
Long Island Sound, east of Mattituck
Whenever my 40 pound power pro touches rocks it cuts instantly lol maybe there isn’t much barnacle over there
Try Stealth.
Is fake eel has weight ? But I could find link for those fake eel
Legend
God damn the bugs Infront of the camera made me itchy just thinking about it.....
amazing fish, i get one....
I caught three fish with hikory shad chunks and one with a eel one I lost at the rock but all of them have had the circle hook deep in the throat or in the gut I absolutely hate the circle hooks there so stupid one of the fish was 44 inches and I had to cut the line because It was so deep in it's gut I have yet too see a circle hook work like it's soposed to .
Great 🇮🇩🇮🇩
are you sure you're not fishing at fish farm? this is like fish in a barrel for you. lol
High Ground.
Wow, big stripers in already
That was the only one of summer for me.
Nice
COOL
U don’t need a bit of weight to cast ?
Eels are cast unweighted for this kind of fishing.
try deet on your hat? I was inhaling bugs with you.
Can I pls come fishing with you
Giant striper that you can fit your arm into... no big deal. That's not what this video is about.