3/16 ssp

[conureman]

Got there at 8 to secure spot. People were already camping and I managed to secure 1.
Set up my stuff and went to sleep in my car.
Woke up at 5 to people letting out line I guess for sharks or gags. The drag was loud every time they pulled and couldn't sleep so I set up my rigs.

7:30 the party started. Threw the trusty spoon and Hooked 5 and activity died around 8 or so I thought. Switched to live bait and immediately got hooked. Caught 2 before I kept getting cut off. Didn't have any higher mono or flouro to switch to (was using 20lb). Got hooked and when I reeled in Got immediately cut off losing mack and hook.
Got tired of losing potential large macs.
Switched back to spoon and used a constant retrieval method and stayed in the middle of the water column and caught my remaining 8 in 15 minutes. People saw those and immediately copied but with somewhat different results. Macs were varying from 15" to 24".
White ,blue and yellow are the spoons to be running.
Morning seems good for those bigger macs
Left at 12
Fish on 👍

[shot33gun9]

Nice.....

[fishsci]

Thank you. You are to be commended for such a thorough and full report... Makes me, and I sure others, anxious to get out there ..but then there is the big cold front coming???

[inoeatfish]

Wished I could fish on weekends but the crowd is to much for me. Even sometime during the week is crowded. Thanks for the report.

When you meant constant retrieval method, are you saying you’re not stopping and letting your weight drop? Or are you saying you’re using your retrieval method systematically the same technique?

[shot33gun9]

Stopping your retrieval and letting your spoon drop will get you lots of cutoffs and lose you lots of spoons. Steady retrieve is a better method...I mostly use a medium retrieve but sometimes macks like it slow and sometimes they like it fast, you have to adjust

[conureman]

Mar 18, 2024 10:05:06 GMT -5 shot33gun9 said:

Stopping your retrieval and letting your spoon drop will get you lots of cutoffs and lose you lots of spoons. Steady retrieve is a better method...I mostly use a medium retrieve but sometimes macks like it slow and sometimes they like it fast, you have to adjust

You recommended that method to me and I've been using it ever since. I owe you a cold one.

[stuckintherocks]

Heard 2 big kings were caught on the end of nsp Saturday.. still waiting for the professional trolly rig skyway king fish catchers to show up on this forum and tell us how it’s done hahaha

[shot33gun9]

That was me, got both at same time on a sabiki rig I found in the mangroves....carry on

[fishtailz]

Wow, that's incredible. I suppose you were flipping it out there with a cane pole.

[shot33gun9]

Of course not.....beer can and some line I found on the pier

[Flatsrunner]

Mar 18, 2024 19:02:01 GMT -5 shot33gun9 said:

Of course not.....beer can and some line I found on the pier

I'm working on training a pelican to catch bait for me, right now it's a one way catch and no retrieve.

[fishtailz]

It's getting a little deep now. Might have to break out some hip boots.