
Capt. Mike's Weekly Roundup
Lucky 7 Lures of Early May
Every May sneaks up on me the same way. Slow, cold start. Moderately ready — yet significantly not ready. The typical cluster ordeal getting ready, but my lure system has me focusing on my boat only…
What also never changes are the same 7 lures I start with each season. Literally 5 years running, no deviation. The fact that they CRUSH — and they're already in my standard Mesh Crate — makes those first trips easy and automatic.
The foodie in me is happy:
- Fresh squid for calamari and Nantucket fluke
- Fresh Macks! - I love eating fresh Atlantic mackerel pan basted in lemon garlic butter as much as I love catching them
- Tog for my fish chowder
The angler in me is happy too:
- Micro striper lures for fresh migrating bass that sometimes want to act like albies
- The BIG GUNS for those pre-season monster stripers locked in on pogies and herring
Bottom control. Biki advantage. No bait required.
Groundfish Biki Jig
The unique Groundfish Biki-Jig combines the effectiveness of the Jig-Biki Teaser System with a unique flat profiled groundfish style jig head paired with the Heavy Duty VMC Barbarian Jig Hook.These jigs can be fished for seabass, fluke, sheepshead and tog with or without adding natural bait like crabs or squid strips. Simply drop the Biki-Jig to the bottom and begin using a slow tap jigging action to lightly bounce the jig along the bottom while drifting or at anchor.
"The Squid Coverage System"
Charter Grade Squid Jigs
- The Hogy Mini Squid Biki Rig is the coverage half of the Hogy Squid System. When squid are schooled up and feeding, scattered across a shoal, or stacked at different depths in the column, the Biki Rig puts three keel-weighted mini squid jigs and four subtle teaser strands into the water on a single drop. It’s the rig that maximizes squid count when the bite is on — and the rig that locates the school when they’re hard to find.
- The Squid Biki Rig offers volume coverage when squid are active, aggressive, or need to be located. Together, they cover every squid fishing condition from pier to boat, spring run to fall migration.
- In the groundfish system, the Squid Biki Rig doubles as a seasonal bait-making tool. Fresh squid is premium bait for stripers, tuna, and fluke. The spring and fall squid runs on Cape Cod provide some of the best squid fishing in the Northeast, and the Biki Rig is the fastest way to fill a bucket.
Hand-Poured. Hyper-Flexible. Built to Move Like It’s Alive.
Original Series Soft Baits
The Hogy Original is where the Hogy System began — the foundation of everything that followed. It’s still hand-poured from softer, more flexible plastic that produces an ultra-natural fall and movement you can’t get from injection molds. Every one comes off the bench with a slight uniqueness that fish respond to. This isn’t mass production. It’s craf
Weightless, it glides and skips like an injured baitfish. On a jig head, it becomes a subtle swimmer. Long versions imitate eels; smaller sizes match silversides or sand eels. What makes it special is control — you decide the action. Twitchy and erratic, slow and hovering, skipped across the surface, or dead-drifted in current. The Original gives you limitless options in one cast.
Fill the livewell. Double as a deep-water teaser.
Diesel Mackerel Sabiki Rigs
The Hogy Diesel Mack Sabiki Rig is the utility workhorse of the groundfish system. It’s a rugged, heavy-duty version of the classic mackerel rig, built with premium mono and oversized hooks to handle the speed and chaos of real-world bait-making. Drop it through a school of mackerel and crank — multiple hookups at once, livewell filled in minutes.
But the Diesel Mack isn’t just a bait rig. In the tactical groundfishing system, it serves a dual role: forage collection and forage confirmation. When you’re running offshore for tuna and need live mackerel for chunking or livelining, the Diesel Mack fills that role. When you want to assess what bait is in the area before committing to a groundfish approach, the Diesel Mack tells you what’s down there. And when paired above a jig, it doubles as a heavy-profile teaser rig for cod and haddock on the deep grounds.
"The Big-Bait Statement."
Charter Grade XL Dog Walkers
The Hogy Classic Dog Walker is one of our most relied-on and best-selling topwater lures. Designed for precision casting, walk-the-dog action, and balanced presentation, it offers a refined take on a timeless surface plug—built for modern inshore applications and tuned for exceptional control and range.
With its slender body, rear-weighted balance, and through-wire construction, it casts like a missile and dances like a baitfish in distress. Its versatile profile is small enough to imitate sand eels or peanut bunker, yet big enough to pass as herring or smaller pogies. That’s why it’s become a confidence lure for anglers chasing both aggressive surface feeds and pressured, picky fish.
"The Code Breaker. Small bait. Big fish."
Slowtail Swimbaits
Stop digging through a wet, tangled tackle bag. The Hogy Mesh Roll-Up keeps your go-to jigs, plugs, and washables organized, protected, and ready to fish—then rinses clean and dries fast. Roll it up, drop it in a hatch, stow it in a bag, or park the Small right in a cup holder. Tough, compact, and fully wash-proof.
"Casts Like a Jig. Dances Like a Softbait."
Surface Eraser
Stop digging through a wet, tangled tackle bag. The Hogy Mesh Roll-Up keeps your go-to jigs, plugs, and washables organized, protected, and ready to fish—then rinses clean and dries fast. Roll it up, drop it in a hatch, stow it in a bag, or park the Small right in a cup holder. Tough, compact, and fully wash-proof.
In The Field Videos:

Shallow Water Tautog Fishing | Buzzards Bay

How-To: Slack Tide Squid Fishing Techniques

How Charter Captains Target Spring Striped Bass in Open Water

How To: Mackerel Fishing In Cape Cod Bay (Hogy Diesel Mack Sabiki Rig)

Healthy Catch & Release Topwater Striper

Spring Stripers | Hogy Slow Tails | Cast + Drop

Finicky Striped Bass | Micro Bait | Surface Erasers



























































































