Tried out my homemade jigging spoon

Last winter I made up some spoons for fishing. I got the idea from a thread on pierandsurf.com where someone made some fishing spoons from regular teaspoons, they cut off the handles, added hooks and painted them  http://www.pierandsurf.com/fishing-forum/showthread.php?91795-Dremel-homemade-fishing-lure&highlight=
I decided to not paint mine because I've always liked the silver flash of spoons and I thought it would be a shame to cover them with paint, plus its less work

I thought it seemed like a perfect lure for certain conditions like areas where theres lots of snags or 
winter fishing when you need to work the lures more slowly. plus they seemed like a cheaper alternative to some of the more expensive spoons like daredevils. They worked really well last winter for Northern Pike and Pickerel. A couple of the spoons I made I left the handles on and just added a hook, I thought they would work well for Rockfishing in the fall. So I recently tried one in the Upper bay and it worked great. I didn't use it for very long but I caught a couple legal size Rock at about 20" and a huge White perch
Heres a video of me using the spoon for the first time

 

Ocean fish in the Upper bay

This has been a good summer for fishing the Upper bay. the White perch fishing has been great and the Rockfishing has been fairly good, I've been able to catch keeper size Rock on most trips but it has been another hot summer, the hottest yet on record (who could ever deny global warming exists now?) But the hot and dry summer also brought some fish up the bay that are normally from the ocean and lower bay.
I've been seeing plenty of Spanish Mackerel jumping out of the water, and have heard reports of people catching a lot of Puppy Drum, Speckled trout and even Kingfish.
I've been surprised a few times this summer, once I got into a school of Redfish,
 and another day I caught a 18" Blackdrum. I didn't even know what the Black drum was at first, Im used to catching mainly fresh water fish in these parts, I actually thought it was a Sheephead at first (there have been reports of Sheephead caught lately to).

 Theres also been the usual Bluefish, but I've heard of some people catching some huge ones, up to 19lbs

The waters finally starting to cool and the Ocean fish will soon be gone from this area, but the Rockfish and Bass fishing is starting to get good now!!