SSP Oct 6th

[maksandjacks]

Got here at 6:10 saw tarpon rolling under the bridge and saw macks skying around 7ish. Sabikid some white bait until a mackerel cut me off, threw casting spoons, gotcha plugs and live bait free lined. Macks only hot free line 3 or 4 times until 8:30.

Moved to end of pier saw maybe 15 bonita caught and 10-15 macks mostly caught on whitebait and a couple on like tube things. Tons of big bonita blitzes and some cool guys were letting us use their live bait. Both tax collectors where there saw 5 bulls roaming around for a couple of hours and waves after waves of flippers swimming through. One bull was hooked for almost 5 mins before chaffing off. All in alm great day if you wanted a shot at bonita and probably the slowest mackerel day out of this week. Also if you like blue runners hundreds were caught. I on the other hand caught a lizard fish on a gotcha😂

[maksandjacks]

will try again in a week or two assuming i dont have drill

[stuckintherocks]

Missed my dam shark baits again

[conureman]

What is the best method for bonita?

[shot33gun9]

Spoons! They hit white spoons just like a mack. A bridge net is mandatory to get the big muthas

[fishsci]

Bonito like fast moving baits or lures.  Retrieve faster than for mackerel.  Usually, live bait is better than lures, but only if the bait is free swimming.  By that I mean that Bonito are not strongly attracted to a live bait that is drifted out and held in the same place in the current.  They like a live bait that is swimming and moving freely and actively...not just in the same place in the current.

[maksandjacks]

They were almost exclusively hitting free lined live bait (they were not hitting spanish sardines just pilchards and greenbacks), i believe there were one or two were caught on lures one being a plastic tube behind a weighted popping cork and the other being a silver spoon

[stuckintherocks]

Yea I’ve always hooked mine fishing spoons for Mack. Have heard white bait under popping cork also does well