Post by arrantzale on Jun 20, 2015 20:04:50 GMT -5
I was on the SSP today, got there around 7 and stayed until noon. It was brutally hot today with no breeze. Anyway on to the new Mack technique.
Bought a couple dozen shrimp there today and planned on catching white bait like usual. Side note, does it seem their shrimp are getting smaller and smaller? So early on there was nothing doing, action didn't heat up until around 9. In the mean time I caught some sardines but they were really big today. Like big snook or tarpon size baits. Nothing a mackerel would take whole unless it was a king or monster spanish. So I put one out with a float anyway and kept fishing with the shrimp hoping for a bonito or small king. I noticed a few times some larger macks chasing the sardine but no real takers. Then once I was about to cast a shrimp and I saw a big Mack chasing the sardine so I threw the shrimp near the float and after a couple of seconds when the Mack saw the shrimp he hit it. He was pretty big. I didn't measure but he was definetly on the larger end of normal spanish Mack size. So then I started doing that, I would watch the sardine and every 10-15 mins when a big Mack would start messing with it I would plop a free lined shrimp in the area and more times than not the Mack showed interest. I brought home a few and also lost a few because I don't use wire leaders but all in all it was really fun fishing. It also helped me get bigger macks because the only ones that would show interest in the big sardine was the bigger ones. So I used the sardine as bait for my bait I guess you would say.
Bought a couple dozen shrimp there today and planned on catching white bait like usual. Side note, does it seem their shrimp are getting smaller and smaller? So early on there was nothing doing, action didn't heat up until around 9. In the mean time I caught some sardines but they were really big today. Like big snook or tarpon size baits. Nothing a mackerel would take whole unless it was a king or monster spanish. So I put one out with a float anyway and kept fishing with the shrimp hoping for a bonito or small king. I noticed a few times some larger macks chasing the sardine but no real takers. Then once I was about to cast a shrimp and I saw a big Mack chasing the sardine so I threw the shrimp near the float and after a couple of seconds when the Mack saw the shrimp he hit it. He was pretty big. I didn't measure but he was definetly on the larger end of normal spanish Mack size. So then I started doing that, I would watch the sardine and every 10-15 mins when a big Mack would start messing with it I would plop a free lined shrimp in the area and more times than not the Mack showed interest. I brought home a few and also lost a few because I don't use wire leaders but all in all it was really fun fishing. It also helped me get bigger macks because the only ones that would show interest in the big sardine was the bigger ones. So I used the sardine as bait for my bait I guess you would say.
