Gulp at Dicks

BoatGuy

BoatGuy

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In the Holo-Teasers post, someone mentioned a sale at Dicks on Gulp.

Figured this be a good place to discuss it. It the sale is still on, can someone post a link?? Also can you guys mention you favorite style and colors for fluke.

Leprechaun already mentioned the 6" Jigging Grub or 7" Jerk Shad. Does anyone try Nemesis?

Did John Skinner mention a watermelon or shine Pink. Darn, I just can't remember.

Hope everyone is staying safe and is well.
 
BoatGuy said:
Yes, he did mention the jigging movement seen in his video's. I do remember him mentioning colors and types.
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he mentioned several colors so I tuned out. I like white and pink. He does like curly tails (and so do the blowfish, grrrr)
 
I probably use much less kayaking than you boat people so I really want to use what I have and can always do srmo.com towards the end of summer and get up to free postage. What I want to experiment with a bit is using old style non-Gulp plastics (like bass assassins and paddletails as teasers or tipping on light bucktails) that have been soaking for months or years in Gulp juice. I was quite successful with that old stuff on largemouth bass and pickeral and that was unscented.
Besides, I have until July 5 for curbside pickup at the anti 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution joint.
 
Well, two things come to mind. Thinking along the same lines, a few Winters ago I bought a couple of dozen plastic 6” jigging grubs in various colors (including Salmon!) from “the Worm Bar” Lady at the Freeport Show. Gotta admit, they looked fantastic - very flexible, with a really wavy tail. Very hard to tear as well. Seemed perfect.

So I allowed them to soak in GULP! juice all that Winter. When fluke season arrived, I could hardly wait to try them.

I did, of course - and the results were terribly disappointing. While my buddies were repeatedly slamming very decent fluke fishing right next ro me, I couldn’t buy a bite. I stuck with the plastics for a good bit of time, spread over five or six trips, but the results just weren’t there. “Dismal” is the word that comes to mind.

I gave. them several solid shots the following season as well - with no real improvement in results. Ended up giving away my entire supply not long after. Hey, not every experiment ends up wildly successful. But not trying is not knowing.

Second point - EliasV has an interesting vid up on YouTube, in which he uses pink 6” Zoom flukes, sweetened with small strips of old, frozen bluefish fillet - and he seemed to do pretty well on that combo, fishing what looked to be the Marine Parkway Bridge. I’ll track down the YT link and post it here.

Edit - here's the vid. EliasV produces well done, entertaining vids that offer solid, useful info. I can think of no better way to pass "inside time" during a virus pandemic than to bulk watch his entire vid library.



So maybe that’s a way to cut back on the cost of GULP! Not to mention the frustration of trash fish repeatedly knocking the hell out of your baits.
 
Elias V definitely has great videos, as does John Skinner. Maybe I will "cheat" and use some old pennant shaped pieces of Gulp that came in the little bags before the Gulp alive came out. I have a package of pink ones that I could slip on after putting a Zoom or Bass Assassin on my jig. Perhaps that was what Berkley intended for the pennants in the first place (?)
 
I am gonna give the nemesis more of a shot this year because that tail really flutters but I do hate how they get nibbled off so easily. I have seen some artificial fluke belly strips on instagram that I really want to try. They seem to be thicker than otter tails and more like a freshwater shad-type bait. I think they'd have good movement but also hold up better than the gulp tails.
 
Elias, when was that trip? I had the same thing happen to me this last summer. I was fishing for porgies between the Kingsborough college point and Coney Island when I though maybe I had a large fluke... until it really started to move. My first thought was huge striper but even with them, on light gear, 20 to 25 minutes in they are throwing in t he towel. Same experience... never came up. Was hugging the bottom like a fluke WOULD but it would have had to be more halibut then fluke. I've hooked about 8 cow noses over the years so i'm somewhat familiar with the fight.. and it is as you described. This felt like a fluke but at striped bass size. It eventually broke my hook as I added some heat to the drag. Went for about a 1000 ft sleigh ride in my inflatable. I eventually settled on black drum. Had to be. I felt your pain. I really just wanted to SEE it! Lol.
 
I also decided to buy at DICKS a daiwa bg 3000 as a back up or loaner...so the combo was only like 10 bucks more so it comes with a 701m (what I got) they have 20.00 off 100.00 or more with free shipping, so out the door 129.00 to me. Ordered on Monday...arrived the NEXT day!!! unreal!! Delivered by a former classmate of my youngest son.
 
I bought a Daiwa BG 2000 last spring to mate with my 6' medium Tsunami Slimwave. Yes, small and light but perfect for the kayak. While I tease boaters all the time that "once you yak, you don't go back", I really like that BG. May it catch you plenty, even though you did buy it from a bunch of dicks.
 

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