I put my location in my profile, but it doesn't show up in my posts (Cape Fear-Topsail, NC)

There are also sea run trout in the Western Hemisphere.

I know what you mean. In my 81 years I have been in the water unexpectedly five times, three with a PFD and twice without. There is NO comparison!

Hardly anybody wears a PFD when wading. For the wading person the belt keeps water out and enables folks to regain their footing. A MOB from a vessel probably has no hope for footing, hence the belt is not going to help. The PFD is what will prevent drowning. The water in your waders doesn't care how deep the body of water is or how tall you are.

Water (including the water in your waders) is buoyant-neutral, so it won't make you sink. You do have a PFD on, right? It is inconvenient to try to swim with waders, hipboots, etc full of water, and the weight will impede your getting back in the yak, but the PFD will save the day. W/o one you will be subject to drowning.

I have heard that they are good to eat. I know my cat ate a pretty good-sized one a few years ago (the whole enchilada). On a multi-treble wire rig they are great slow-trolled dead for king mackerel. Caught a bunch one time on Mirrolures from the Coast Guard dock at Cape Lookout , NC.

I was attempting to reply to the post: "Hula Popper was my first thought too. But, don't you know they won't catch fish anymore? Like you said, they've been around for a hundred years and the fish are wise to them. You and I are probably the only ones around here that first cast one sixty or seventy years ago!"

For the fish to wise to these lures, either the fish would be 100 years old, or each generation of fish is transmitting that wisdom to the following ones. Even humans have a hard time with either option! BTW, I started using Hula Poppers and Jitterbugs around 1950, Devilhorses not long after that.

Indeed! I gave the book to my oldest, along with another dedicated to me personally ("a mi amigo Bonasa," [actually, he used my real name]) by a Nobel winner. That way they won't get hauled off with the rest of my books when I croak.

I was a big Pogo fan too. Walt Kelly gave a lecture at Chapel Hill when I was a student (1957/58?) and drew a Pogo in one of my books and autographed it!

Sorry--That would be logical thinking if the fish were a hundred years old!

That would be logic

I agree with all, except for approaching the perps. You never know what you may be up against there. Better let the professional handle it.

"It seems there are several Skipjacks."

Which kinda was my point. There are also quite a few spoons, some harder to locate than others.

TO: The Coastal Elites
It seems that the Skipjack is not the tuna but a member of the Herring family, Alosa chrysochloris, similar to the Hickory Shad of our Atlantic rivers. The Foley Spoon, not available from Tackle Direct, can only be found on catfish sites.