Good Day SSP Friday 10/27
Oct 27, 2023 19:07:47 GMT -5
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Post by fishsci on Oct 27, 2023 19:07:47 GMT -5
Arrived about 7:50 AM. Stopped very near the entrance where a couple guys were throwing spoons behind floats. I asked one guy ... any mackerel? hay mackarela? He replied...got six. So I stopped there and started fishing __ never moved from that spot all morning. I first threw a straw rig behind a float ... caught 2 that way, but noticed that the float/spooners where catching more. I got my other rod out and started casting a chrome gotcha. Caught one mack, then soon hooked up and line screamed out. Ended up a couple hundred yards further out the pier. Lucky for me the guy near there had a pier lift net and helped me bring up an 8-lb bonito. It was a really nice fight on 8# spinning. He said that they are good smoked...better than mackerel, so I will try that. Caught 6 more macks on the Gotcha. Since I had plenty of macks at 10:30, tried some home-made lures behind a weighted floatfor a while..lots of passes, but no takes. At around 11, I switchef to my old standby -- a white sidewinder jig. Every cast had a number of passes. sometimes many passes and many fish each cast...but no takers, except one. I was obvious that the macks were still there, but they were not agessively hitting. At 11:30 took a short lunch break, then went back to casting the sidewinder with much less action.
about one pass every 5 or 6 casts. Just before noon thr Spooner guy walked past me and said "nothing." a couple minutes later he walked back past me having no action. Just then I brought in my 11th mack, and gave it to him. I came away with two observations. First the spooner's fish were more, but much smaller (most just barely 12" whereas mine were much larger..14-16"). Second, as the morning got later, there were still many macks around, but they were much less aggressive and were not inclined to come up and hit a spoon behind a float, only made passes at my jig.
about one pass every 5 or 6 casts. Just before noon thr Spooner guy walked past me and said "nothing." a couple minutes later he walked back past me having no action. Just then I brought in my 11th mack, and gave it to him. I came away with two observations. First the spooner's fish were more, but much smaller (most just barely 12" whereas mine were much larger..14-16"). Second, as the morning got later, there were still many macks around, but they were much less aggressive and were not inclined to come up and hit a spoon behind a float, only made passes at my jig.
