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After seeing positive reports for live-lining at the bridge made arrangements to head out there Sunday afternoon. I had a long BBQ the night before and I was struggling to get moving. Finished cleaning up the pressing stuff, loaded up, and headed out to meet Friday at terrapin park.
Launching there wasn't so bad except for the sand and tons of people part. The launch wasn't too bad though since I had everything laid out in the parking lot and just needed to tuck the cart in. Made my way to the shallow pilings for spot and tried for 20 mins. No luck. I trolled a three way with a sassy shad and a magic swimmer on my way out to deeper water. I had one good hit that I missed. Then as I got deeper I caught several small blues, one about 12 inches. Found Friday and showed him one of the blues that I was considering live-lining. He was anchored and had caught several spot and perch that we both thought were too big for bait. We decided to try casting because he had seen a boat casting shads pick up a few around him. The wind picked up and it was difficult holding position. The current picked up in the opposite direction and then it got kinda hairy out there. We decided to troll the edges of the pilings and see what we could pick up. I was trolling and came across a rare site, an empty double piling and had to take a cast! First cast got a tap, second cast got a 22” incher! I promised my roommate I’d bring him some rock home, so I put it on the game clip. Looked for Joe, he was way down so I took another cast… caught 2 more, one with spots and one that was 17”. He made his way back and I showed him the fish and told him what I was using. We set to work on the pilings. I caught a lot, not sure of the number but it was between 15-20 or 25. I missed a lot too. I was not the boats favorite person, bc they were anchored with spot out and not catching. I had several nice rides and caught a few just over 30 inches.
I had a new design for a swamp munkey with me that I tried after my other bkd got too mangled. First pilings I threw it out produced a BIG fish. I called Friday over and he got some of the fight on video and the boat-side hook spit release. I’m hoping you can see the head, it was huge. Between my trips with Captain Pete over the winter and reading everything Kimbro ever writes I think I’m finally getting the bkd thing. Biggest thing I can say is that you need an extra fast rod, m or mh, braided line (I was using 20lb), and a decent reel. I am a conventional convert and I don’t think I can go back to spinning on the kayak, it’s just much easier to control a cast with my thumb than having to use both hands to cup the spool on a spinning reel. Joe had a lot of bites but was unable to connect, I think he had too soft of rods to get the action needed for the BKD’s. He did catch an oyster toad on a bkd though!!! Salinity must be up and good to see fish around the bridge, especially of this class during the summer!
Here’s dinner, more shots to come.
Launching there wasn't so bad except for the sand and tons of people part. The launch wasn't too bad though since I had everything laid out in the parking lot and just needed to tuck the cart in. Made my way to the shallow pilings for spot and tried for 20 mins. No luck. I trolled a three way with a sassy shad and a magic swimmer on my way out to deeper water. I had one good hit that I missed. Then as I got deeper I caught several small blues, one about 12 inches. Found Friday and showed him one of the blues that I was considering live-lining. He was anchored and had caught several spot and perch that we both thought were too big for bait. We decided to try casting because he had seen a boat casting shads pick up a few around him. The wind picked up and it was difficult holding position. The current picked up in the opposite direction and then it got kinda hairy out there. We decided to troll the edges of the pilings and see what we could pick up. I was trolling and came across a rare site, an empty double piling and had to take a cast! First cast got a tap, second cast got a 22” incher! I promised my roommate I’d bring him some rock home, so I put it on the game clip. Looked for Joe, he was way down so I took another cast… caught 2 more, one with spots and one that was 17”. He made his way back and I showed him the fish and told him what I was using. We set to work on the pilings. I caught a lot, not sure of the number but it was between 15-20 or 25. I missed a lot too. I was not the boats favorite person, bc they were anchored with spot out and not catching. I had several nice rides and caught a few just over 30 inches.
I had a new design for a swamp munkey with me that I tried after my other bkd got too mangled. First pilings I threw it out produced a BIG fish. I called Friday over and he got some of the fight on video and the boat-side hook spit release. I’m hoping you can see the head, it was huge. Between my trips with Captain Pete over the winter and reading everything Kimbro ever writes I think I’m finally getting the bkd thing. Biggest thing I can say is that you need an extra fast rod, m or mh, braided line (I was using 20lb), and a decent reel. I am a conventional convert and I don’t think I can go back to spinning on the kayak, it’s just much easier to control a cast with my thumb than having to use both hands to cup the spool on a spinning reel. Joe had a lot of bites but was unable to connect, I think he had too soft of rods to get the action needed for the BKD’s. He did catch an oyster toad on a bkd though!!! Salinity must be up and good to see fish around the bridge, especially of this class during the summer!
Here’s dinner, more shots to come.
I did get a little better by my 3rd or 4th trip, so I think there might be hope for learning the Bay Bridge.
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