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Post by seabird on Jun 4, 2019 21:22:33 GMT -5
Went to SSP and fished from 7 am to 11am. Very hot with almost no wind until 11am. Action very slow, especially with the outgoing tide. Bait did not show up until tide shift close to 9am. There were huge numbers of bait. Only caught lizard fish, pin fish, pig fish and a grass porgy. Tried for macks with the spoon and also snapper with shrimp.
Only saw 2 macks caught. No one had much of anything. I took a lunch break after 11am and walked from the 2nd BR to the bait house. I then walked back and tried for macks with the spoon. Did see a few and had brief hits but no fish. Also caught several greenbacks, lizards and a pig fish on the way back.
The man at the bait shop said the mack action has been best in the afternoon. Seemed contrary to past experience when best action used to be in the early am along with a falling tide.
My next outing will be at Ft. Desoto.
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Post by YeehaZing on Jun 4, 2019 21:44:45 GMT -5
Might want to gas up and go to Naples. 😁
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Post by shadowxmas on Jun 4, 2019 23:32:54 GMT -5
Hoping some of the macks in Naples head North to us.
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Post by seabird on Jun 5, 2019 3:05:18 GMT -5
Might want to gas up and go to Naples. 😁 Another place I could try and much closer would be Dunedin Causeway. |
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Post by silverspoon on Jun 5, 2019 6:59:14 GMT -5
Was at very end of ssp afternoon for couple hours, scorcher! guys there were loading up on macs, using bubble float with white jig, others using weighted spoon, white spoons, I’d estimate over 4 dozen macs combined, I have a silver spoon, no takers!
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Post by seabird on Jun 5, 2019 7:25:26 GMT -5
Was at very end of ssp afternoon for couple hours, scorcher! guys there were loading up on macs, using bubble float with white jig, others using weighted spoon, white spoons, I’d estimate over 4 dozen macs combined, I have a silver spoon, no takers! What time in the afternoon? Rising or falling tide? |
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Post by phishead on Jun 5, 2019 7:31:24 GMT -5
Was at very end of ssp afternoon for couple hours, scorcher! guys there were loading up on macs, using bubble float with white jig, others using weighted spoon, white spoons, I’d estimate over 4 dozen macs combined, I have a silver spoon, no takers! What time in the afternoon? Rising or falling tide? Even though different Mac frenzy. But mine on Sunday happened during a major and the begging of outgoing around 1 pm. And lasted well into around 3 pm. |
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Post by silverspoon on Jun 5, 2019 7:37:30 GMT -5
It was incoming, lots of bait and the macs were hitting them every once in a while, obviously feeding , so yeah it was a frenzy I suppose but they stayed around for an hour or , didn’t see action like that anywhere else on the pier, say main feed was around 1 pm
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Post by silverspoon on Jun 5, 2019 7:42:28 GMT -5
Another note, most were being caught on bay side of pier, the opening on south side of last building
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Post by corpuszero on Jun 5, 2019 8:31:38 GMT -5
Was at very end of ssp afternoon for couple hours, scorcher! guys there were loading up on macs, using bubble float with white jig, others using weighted spoon, white spoons, I’d estimate over 4 dozen macs combined, I have a silver spoon, no takers! I wonder if you spray paint a silver spoon white if it'll work |
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Post by silverspoon on Jun 5, 2019 12:13:49 GMT -5
can of white enamel spray, I think it would work, good idea, I'd spray in advance so the paint can cure, become harder, and stop giving off nasty chemical smell! Spray light thin coat and let dry between coats to get a good paint job. Can't believe how the fish now ignore a silver spoon, used to crush them with the kastaway 1 oz. spoon years back, filled a cooler easily, suppose the whit looks more like the bait they are chasing
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Post by parkpass on Jun 5, 2019 12:26:02 GMT -5
Bait shop has white spoons ready to go, top quality, in the jars on the counter
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Post by possumhollerfishing on Jun 5, 2019 14:29:35 GMT -5
Might want to gas up and go to Naples. 😁 Another place I could try and much closer would be Dunedin Causeway. Saw some guys get couple decent macs there a couple weeks back. They were tossing gotcha plugs and I got nothing on my silver spoon. |
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