Tiny Bucktails Caught 10 Species! No Bait Needed!
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- I started this fishing trip with a bucktail and it caught just about every possible species I could hope to catch on these waters without using any natural bait. The key to catching these fish was to swim lightweight bucktails over whatever structure the fish were on. I've recently released a new online Bucktailing and Blackfish Jigging course and you can learn more and get discounts at saltstrong.com/....
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I’m amazed by the skill John has. Throws a bucktail and catches 10 species in one trip. Even the angry little pufferfish!
I'm sitting here wishin I was fishin while you're out there living the dream! Well done and thanks for sharing.
12:54 Now that's a NICE fish! Best thing about an area like that is it's too shallow for many boats to go poking around in.
That first trout was a frickin log my man. Love watching you work artificially. Especially the Bucktail. I LOVE watching this!!!
That was absolutely AMAZING 🤩. You are The Fish Whisperer. I’d love to be able to spend a few days out on the water with you. I could definitely learn a lot from you.
Skinner is the boss of salt for sure
Great vid John, 10 species on a buck tail that’s awesome..🤙🏼🤙🏼
bucktails take a bit of getting use to but are so effective on just about everything. Skinner is a bucktail magician, he makes it look easy.
Great video! As a native Floridian, my whole live I've never targeted flounder until I started watching your videos. Since then I've targeted them twice and each time, using your technique, I've caught them! I would love to see a video of you targeting them down here, to see if your methods change at all. Thanks again! I'll be ordering your book very soon! Cheers!
Great video John ! Excellent for weight management. I was taught back in the early 80's from Bruce H. out of East Hampton that Bass don't eat grass, to keep your bucktail close to the bottom not on the bottom.
Great video John, thanks for sharing. Lots of great info. Some of your casts though...wow. Pinpoint accuracy. Very impressive.
Knew it was a grouper when it hit. Ran back to his hidey hole. Nice job getting that gag out of it. Amazing that was you first FL fluke. Nothing like the big boys back on LI. Going to miss your videos of Pine Island sound fishing when you go back north. I'll look for you next season. 10 species wow! Way beyond a Florida slam.
Great work on those buck tails. Fun to watch and I bet it was more fun fishing them
Great thing about bucktails is the versatility. I've been throwing a double fluke "speck rig" quite a bit, as of late. Really been whacking the trout, even when other's can't seem to get a bite. Thanks for the great vids. Tight lines!
Great to see some Speckled Trout! I figured you'd run across some, and they were beautiful. Congrats on 10!
This video brings back a lot of good and fun memories thank you for sharing keep on fishing and tight lines👍👍👍
So glad to see you in FL. I frequent that area since I have family there I visit. Would love to throw some arties with you one day on the water. Love your videos and long time follower.
Talking about buck tails today. Was my dad’s favorite jig
Great video John. That puffer fish was pretty funny, deflated like a balloon on reentry.
They're the worst if you're trying to fish Gulp. They very aggressive here.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing John they're so delicious though.
Good morning Johnny, so I’m getting good striper reports. My friend caught a schoolie this morning at field 6/ Jones beach...
can’t wait for your first Long Island video !!! Awesome !!! Thanks you for always answer , I’m throwing on one of your buck tails on now- waters warming up a bit , and lots of adult bunker !!!
Yes, I've heard of schoolies out east too. Hopefully the weather stays warm.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing I know right ? I can’t wait !!! I went yesterday with blue carbon fiber rod with the evict 2000 on it. Beautiful set up- I used that silver minnow too, it was like perfect. Like a middle- I can’t wait for your suprise video when you come back up north 🎣🤙🏻👌🏻☀️
That bait looks amazing! I'd like to use em for trout here
Great trip! Trout were really nice!
Great video and excellent catching!! 10 species is so cool. The epitome of what’s so good about saltwater and brackish water fishing.
7 species my PB. Gotta get down to south Florida and try for 10.
Well done. Glad to be subscribed.
I have a tackle box full of bucktails of all sizes and colors...hardly ever use them...that's about to change! Thanks for the info sir!
I work on Martha's Vineyard April through September. It's almost a rite of passage for me to get here and watch John's video's until the stripers get here. And here he is farther south than I am (Virginia). Tight lines, John, keep em coming, Sir.
I'll be up in 3 weeks. Looking forward to cold morning stripers.
Great show, love a bucktail!
Great vid, as always JS! I enjoyed this. Keep them coming 👍
I love the head shake on a Speckled Trout.
My favorite
Awesome video !! See you in a few weeks !
Absolutely!!
Doc is waiting for you Cliffy
Great video John, amazing showing how one doesn't need bait with the use of the bucktail and a synthetic. I love the silicone skirts, but having used S&S so much myself I feel the bucktails with hair hold the gulp juice much better than silicone when dipped between drifts. It seems the fish are further attracted with all that scent and flavor.
I think that is very true for fluking, but now that I think of it, I think I experienced the same thing with the Everglades groupers.
Favorite lure of all time. Great video man!
awesome video John
Do you think that the fish are ever thinking ah damn it I got hooked. Oh never mind its Skinner haha!
Great sized trout !!! 🤙🏼
Hey John, That was really a cool fishing trip! Big trout and plenty of action and variety!
Reminded me of when I first moved to Naples and the wife was floating on a raft at the beach.
I was so stupid with my gear from Mi.... White bucktail jig catching trout jumping next to her.
Salt water ruined all my equipment.😥..live and learn....Cheers!
This was just above Naples. Such great variety!
Man really a multi species lure/jig!
Putting my new Parker 2021 21se boat in the water in a couple of days in Northport Long Island for some blackfish & striped bass . I installed a minn kota 112 72" Terrova trolling motor .I meet John from jigging jerks on the Miss Montauk A couple of years ago I am in one of his videos that day when some guy went nuts and broke a beer bottle and wanted to cut some guy on the boat and once again I am the guy on the Miss Montauk who held up a 10 pound fluke and said john I caught this fluke on one of your rigs I see rick on the blue J put a trolling motor on his boat I wonder if doc will put one on his boat. I learn a lot from watching your videos thank you .I see what you guys do with your trolling motors and I said to my self I got to get me one of those. keep those videos coming.
You'll love the trolling motor. I'm really spoiled now that I have one on my kayak with spotlock. Doc is getting one too!
@@JohnSkinnerFishing I will be fishing wrecks & rocks for blackfish across the sound in Connecticut near norwalk-Greenwich-Stamford the area is loaded with wreaks & rocks can't wait to use the spotlock for this.I meet you a few years ago at J&H tackle and at a fishing show it was great talking to you hope to meet you again some day take care John and have a safe trip back to Long Island.
wrecks not wreaks hey I went to PS89 in the Bronx what can I say HA HA.
The Bucktail Master!
Lot of info and tips packed into this video. Liked the format, and glad to see the comeback of fish since the 2018/2019 horrible red tide near pine island/sanibel. Seems like this occurence is becoming more frequent. Happy fishing sir.
Red tide was a problem this winter. Fishing was better last winter.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing Hopefully this isn't a 2-3 year occurrence, with the release of water by the Army Corps. Killing our beaches from Manasquan and to the South in Jersey, now they mishandle Florida slowly but surely. Enjoy the rest of your stay down there. Fluke will be ready to hide soon.
That is awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Such a classic timeless lure!
love to see a flounder vid down there too
You'd be better off with a lure you can skip way up under the mangroves if you want to catch snook. They like it way back in there. Some are around the edge where a bucktail will work but you probably can't skip it under the branches. Trout will hang out up in there too. Jerk shad or shrimp copies with weedless hooks do pretty good for skipping and they don't snag so much.
On the subject of pufferfish tearing up lures, my dad had one cut a thin braided leader once.. he's always worried about teeth 😂
Simply amazing, John!
Amazing as always
Anyone else get a shiver down their spine when he reels the bail closed and doesn't do it manually? At 9:56
If I had it my way, bails never would have been invented.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing why don’t you get a reel and get a bailiess kit for it? Like the spinfisher 2500 or tsunami shield, I understand what you mean though they do get very annoying when surf casting.
That’s what I love Long Island sound 🐟🦈
Awesome video John. I do enjoy your southern months, however, I prefer you hunting bass in the rocks of the NE.
The bucktail has been my go to for 30+ years. I do miss Uncle Josh pork rind in red, tipping a white or yellow bucktail.
Cheers to an awesome 2021 Striper season.
I'll be back up in 3 weeks.
You should target flounder down there you would catch a LOT! There is a small chance they are summer flounder (Fluke) But I think they are either southern flounder or gulf flounder. Great video love multi species catches.
It's so hard given so many other species given that I spend May->October chasing fluke here. Maybe I'll try next winter.
fished in 10k island and yeah you catch so many different species of fish
Ten species = Fun video.
Super fun, great content.
Caught my first flounder/fluke today in Southern Florida and it is quite a weird hit on your lure; didn't even really feel like I had something till I went to set the hook and then it picked up the fight.
When casting a lot of times they grab it and glide at you so the first sign of a hit is slack line.
Love the videos John but enough's enough. Get back up here to NY and lets go striper fishing. Its the 15th already.
The North Fork is cold and slow this time of year. We'll be up first week of May.
Nice puffer
The fish whisperer.
Great video John. Have to add a pompano and a permit to your list of species to catch next winter. And I could be wrong, but I don't remember if you caught a mangrove snapper yet. They don't really strike artificials though for whatever reason.
Quick question for you. When you're pulling up to a flat, what exactly are you looking for? Transitions between grass and sand with decent depth? Specifically for redfish and trout. Thanks.
Healthy grass. Unfortunately the bottom looks pretty barren in a lot of places. Ideally I'd like to see some pelicans around and some mullet jumping. That creek I was in was loaded with mangrove snappers, but didn't hit the lures. I have lots of them in the backyard and shrimp gets eaten immediately but a gulp lure will get hit only on the first cast or two before they seem to wise up. I have never seen a pompano or permit.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing thanks for the tips, I'll have to start watching the birds more. I'm more of a bottom fisherman myself.
Yeah the mangrove snapper rarely hit lures, maybe because of their good eyesight.
As for pompano and permit, you want a doc's goofy jig and teaser. They are fun to catch and taste great.
Tiny Bucktails. Good band name.
I'm a MD Kayak fisherman and planning a trip to southwest FL. Great video, very informative, purchased your Gulf Bucktails and looking forward to using them. There is a tremendous amount of water down there and doing my homework. I was curious if you could advise on kayak launch locations to access productive areas in your FL videos. Are you using ramps or roadside opportunities? Whatever assistance will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!!!
Robert I'm in MD also kayak and boating ,willing to go join let me know where in MD. Definitely want to try some of John's techniques and I brought swing hook bucktails
Hello John I just ordered 3/8 bucktails and 1/2 once bucktails from J and H tackle today!!! To bad they didn't have any glass minnow teasers. So I ordered Capt Lou teasers they look alot better made.
So much stuff from overseas is backordered. I'm guessing the Capt Lou teasers, like the S&S bucktails are made in the USA.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing Yes Sir Capt Lou is a charter fishing guide out of Montauk NY.
I suspect you already know; but you id'd the trout as "like weakfish" - they are weakfish - just decorated.
John. I wonder if I could ask for your advice. I am originally from Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY, but I haven't lived there for many years. I am visiting my 95-year old dad in OB next month in May. Can you recommend some good spots on the north shore (LI Sound) where I could surf cast for bluefish, or even stripers? Could you also recommend some good lures? I don't use bait. Thanks very much, John. I love your channel.
Unfortunately I know nothing about the access there. Check with a local tackle shop. As for lures, bucktails and pencil poppers. Here are two video links that might help. They have gear links: ruclips.net/video/aWC-AzMifyM/видео.html ruclips.net/video/2O40hmA53Fw/видео.html
Sensational
No good species. No bad species.
Just species. They all play a role in the Ecosystem.
Great video thanks! The Gulp grubs are scented... Don't know about the Tsunami... Do you think scent is better down there (to tip a bucktail)?
It is, but if the blowfish are there, the Gulp is unusable.
Awesome videos as always, when are you coming back to NY?
1st week of May.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing awesome can't wait
nice video as usual, 10 species, impressive about the only place that happens is in Florida. It seems like the Gulf Coast offers the best inshore fishing in Florida. Whats your advice / technique for building up local fishing knowledge down in Florida, are you using maps, talking to other fishermen, subscriber help? Lastly I'm curious if we are going to see you using this kayak up in your home waters, curious how it will stack up against the Hobie on Long Island waters. Tight lines!
The motor yak is going North. I really didn't get help learning the areas from anyone. I spent a lot of time on Google Earth and googling for access.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing thanks I suspected it was a lot of looking at maps and exploration down there. Just like up here.
I'm convinced we could drop you anywhere in the world and you could catch 10 species with a bucktail.
John, being newish to the area, what's the approach to finding these productive areas? Do you just look for available launches and time it out so you're fishing moving currents?
I remember you used to break down beach structures in the NE using Google Earth. Id love to see you do a FL version showing how you (in a general sense) determine what features you target and why.
Another great video 👍
Finding access points was a hobby before I even came down here. Lots of time on Google Earth, including street view. From there it's tide sites like this that show the plot. These tides are completely different than up North. tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/noaatidepredictions.html?id=8725393
@@JohnSkinnerFishing street views?😮 Are you "going rogue"? (launching at non-designated launches). I've done that a half dozen times, it's always a workout with the motorized kayak. Last time I did it at El Jobean bridge (maybe 40 miles north of you) and was rewarded with a big snook, small goliath and most importantly, a smalltooth sawfish. Probably my favorite fishing picture in 40 years.
I use the "Tide Times" app because it shows current change as well as tide times, but I still feel lost much of the time. If you're ever bored and need an idea for off-water content, I sure would love to see you shoot a quick segment where you apply a tide schedule to a random piece of fl water.
Anyway thanks again for your response, be safe out there👍 I've been staying home on the Myakka this week, I have big tarpon making some violent noises at low light and overnight and still haven't figured out how to get a bite😡
@@FattyMateo I found that tide times alone are useless here and I must see plots. Sometimes there are flat spots in the tide. We're on one right now in St. James City for a few hours, so no sense in fishing. The tarpon videos I posted a few weeks ago are Caloosahatchie river fish and they responded well to those small zoom flukes I was throwing. You might try those. At night, I'd try Tsunami swim shads. The vibration from the paddle tail seems to help. I'm no expert on any of this.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing I guess I don't understand how the plots work. I need to go back and look at that closer.
There's a younger guy who stays on a houseboat on the river near me. He's a local fishing guide, though I'm not sure how good he is. He says the tarpon make explosive noises at night/low light but he's never hooked one either. Which makes me wonder if they mate up here and the explosions are like egg releasing or something🤔 totally guessing. It is maddening. Wife and I were watching a movie in the living room last night and I had to leave, every 5 minutes it sounded like bowling balls hitting the water. I've struck out on 5" zoom flukes in every configuration, but I'm going to break out my striper gear ( tsunamis, eels my, SS darters ) tonight and see if I can get one to bite. 🤞
You're going to get them with Tsunami Swim shads. Those worked very well for me in the keys at night. Feel free to email me at info at striper pursuit dot com and let me know how you make out.
When are you coming back to NY for fluke season
First week of May
looks like you need another carbon shield 2 lol
is there a rod holder on that yak without a tsunami carbon shield 2 in it ?
Awesome!!
Good my friend👍👍
TIP UP. TIP UP !
Love videos like this! John, what kind of rods are you using there? Any color preference w the jig and gulp?
Also. Whats the difference in location between a day like today, vs the day you were jigging for grouper?
I was in a totally different location on the grouper, about 60 miles away.
Those are Tsunami Carbon Shields. There's a link in the video description.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing thank you!!!
John, what type of leader material are you using? Great videos!
Seaguar Inshore 30
Fishing the creeks next to st james? you dont have to tell me...buuuttt....
Fishing is starting up north. When are you coming back???
3 weeks. It starts a little later on the North Fork.
You mentioned that you switch to a Tsunami bait because the puffer fish was eating the Gulp. Just curious what that bait was, didn't see it mentioned in the description
It's a Tidal Bait 4-inch Grub.
... are you sure the same thing wouldn't happen if you put the Gulp on a naked jig?
Great question. I've tried it up North with poor results. The hair on a bucktail adds profile, float, and resistance on the retrieve. It's why they've been a goto lure for so many anglers for so many years.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing Yes, I get what the bucktail brings to the party. I moved down here from Pa 5 years ago, where I tied and used bucktails for smallmouth and streamers for trout for years. It would appear that most of these Floridians just use a plain jig with a soft plastic trailer ... they could well be missing a trick.
Is this pineland?
Where can I fish in nyc
Right now is an excellent time to hit bay areas in NYC.
@@UNFILTEREDFISHING what bay and what do I fish for
@@Lisa-oo7rc right now the striped bass fishing is very good on the northern part of Queens, and the southern parts of the Bronx. Even the east river should have fish running up the Hudson to spawn and holding in the bays. Think dark muddy bottoms that warm quickly in the sun.
John you keep saying grass flats. I am fishing up at Burnt Store, not far from you. My "grass flats" are snot grass. Are you really fishing turtle grass or eel grass as we call it up in Jersey or do you have snaot grass too?
They are blades of grass. Sorry I don't know what it is. "Snot" is what I think of that fouls everything. It's not that. You have decent winter tarpon fishing up there, correct?
@@JohnSkinnerFishing I wish I knew how the tarpon are biting. I am back in South Jersey chasing stripers. The area around my marina in BSM is nothing but a carpet of slime. No grass at all. Guess I need to run South to where you are.
Mr. Skinner ... I think I'm late to the party. Did you move south? Are you done with the Stripers and Fluke? 🤔
I'm a Snowbird. I'll be back in 3 weeks.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing PHEW !!!! 😃
John what the max weight you throw with your carbon shields
I think 1.5 ounces would be the upper limit of comfortable.
Thanks john
how many Gulp Grubs got destroyed during the filming of this trip?
Not too many, because when the blowfish started, I switched to the tsunami grub, which worked just fine.
whens the catch and cook ?
When I catch something I can keep. Reds, snook, and trout are all C&R only in my county for now.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing oh ok wasn't aware, still having a blast though
hey john- do you ever do any live streams while fishing?
I don't. My attitude toward the whole fishing and video thing is that the fishing comes first. It's a fishing trip, and if I can get it on video without a lot of trouble, great, but I'm not into making a TV show out of it. I'd rather just acquire video and add the important information with a voice over later. That's why I do very little talking for the camera's sake on the water.
thanks for the response- totally understood. can’t tell you how much i appreciate and learn from you. have a great day!
Hi, is it a 20lb braid or 30? It shows 20 but the link takes to 30lb plus 40lb leader which maybe too much for a 1/8o lure no?
20# braid, 30# Fluoro.
Its the gulp not the bucktail..fish your bucktail without the gulp..not so good..I bottom fish offshore with a bucktail but add squid or fresh cut bait and it catches..without the scent..not so much...
If you watched the video all the way through you'll see that I switched to a plastic trailer and still caught well, including the biggest trout of the day and a snook. I have a lifetime of catching fish on bucktails without gulp, but in some situations, definitely with fluke, the Gulp helps.
Did he just 💩 on catfish😭😭😭
Bait fishing is not as fun for me
I agree, they gotta be big fish.
@@heyreddin2.0s10 lmao !
@@AspiringSpaceWizard 😆 what I meant was the fish I'm fishing for need to be big to warrant bait fishing. Tight lines friend ☺️