Has anyone tried this?

Interesting that you bring this up. We were out near the McAlister Reef on Monday and ended up filleting one for bait. Everything was willing to eat it, and unlike the skimmers they would stay on the hook.

The discussion also came up about live lining them for stripers and everyone had heard of it, but naturally, none of us has ever tried it. Now I think we will.
 
I call BS on the video.

Considering the way he hooked the sea Robin, it should have stayed on the hook.........most live baits usually do or slide up the leader.
 
@OVERBORED You could be right but I seriously doubt it. I know of him and I know many people that know him. Not to mention he has 250K subs on Youtube. No way he's risking all of that over a bass :)
 
george said:
@OVERBORED You could be right but I seriously doubt it. I know of him and I know many people that know him. Not to mention he has 250K subs on Youtube. No way he's risking all of that over a bass :)
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If you vouch for him, Ill believe it.

Even when we used to liveline scup, the dorsal spines would be trimmed.

That said, Ive livelined most anything I could find in the 6-10" size range. With the exception of Bunker and eels, Blackfish and flounder were the best (Before size regulations) followed by bergalls............I never tried sea robins.
 
OVERBORED said:
If you vouch for him, Ill believe it.

Even when we used to liveline scup, the dorsal spines would be trimmed.

That said, Ive livelined most anything I could find in the 6-10" size range. With the exception of Bunker and eels, Blackfish and flounder were the best (Before size regulations) followed by bergalls............I never tried sea robins.
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At times, we found small sea robins in stomachs, also in bigger fluke. Makes sense. No more flounder to eat. Less blackfish, etc. See, even the bass had to step down on the more desirable eats!

Glad you mentioned bergalls. Many years ago during as I called it the clam years, when every boat was either anchored or drifting clams in the late spring for bass and folks would occasionally hook up on small fish here or there. A group of us would spend some time along the rocks with basically a four hook rig with bits of clams and load up the livewell with them. Drifting along with folks and pulling 30+ pound fish through the mayhem in the middle of the day was a hoot. 8-)

We always trimmed our porgies when we livelined in Montauk. Naturally, the would eat porgies but sometimes the bass had to wrestle them a bit to position them for the swallow. Take the spine off, and smooth sailing to a successful hookup.
 
OVERBORED said:
If you vouch for him, Ill believe it.

Even when we used to liveline scup, the dorsal spines would be trimmed.

That said, Ive livelined most anything I could find in the 6-10" size range. With the exception of Bunker and eels, Blackfish and flounder were the best (Before size regulations) followed by bergalls............I never tried sea robins.
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Baby tog were killers on both bass and big weakfish in the Great South Bay.
 
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longcast said:
At times, we found small sea robins in stomachs, also in bigger fluke. Makes sense. No more flounder to eat. Less blackfish, etc. See, even the bass had to step down on the more desirable eats!

Glad you mentioned bergalls. Many years ago during as I called it the clam years, when every boat was either anchored or drifting clams in the late spring for bass and folks would occasionally hook up on small fish here or there. A group of us would spend some time along the rocks with basically a four hook rig with bits of clams and load up the livewell with them. Drifting along with folks and pulling 30+ pound fish through the mayhem in the middle of the day was a hoot. 8-)

We always trimmed our porgies when we livelined in Montauk. Naturally, the would eat porgies but sometimes the bass had to wrestle them a bit to position them for the swallow. Take the spine off, and smooth sailing to a successful hookup.
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Bergalls saved many a day back when we couldn't find the herring in November!
 
As you can imagine, Fishermen had a field day with a species that was and still is unregulated and I'm sure quite a few 10-12" tog were "accidentally" mixed in.......
 
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