Post by boltman7 on Apr 11, 2011 19:37:35 GMT -5
Work for the day was cancelled so I jumped in the car and headed over to the south pier. Got there around 8 am or so. Bait was pretty thick, but it was mainly small pins. I had never seen the pinfish school like that before. I had a grouper bottom rig on my 4/0 from my last trip so I sent out a pin to the bottom. About a half hour later the drag started peeling. Ended up being a decent 40" shark. Not sure what kind but maybe a lemon. I don't know. Soon after, the typical whitebait came in by the buckets and the mackerel followed. Seemed like every freelined greenie out there was getting chased by the macks but I struggled all day with actually getting them to bite. They messed with the live bait, spoons, gotchas all day. Managed to grab a nice 20" mackerel on a spoon, and two 14" on a sabiki. The guy next to me caught one of the nicest macks I have seen. Weighed in at 6 lbs. Also managed to flip a nice goliath but the hook pulled. Thanks for that advice on the other thread. Ended up leaving around 2pm or so with enough fish for dinner and a sunburn.
