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Got on the water a little later than I like to, around 7:45. Saw some birds dive bombing so I paddled over and threw a 4 inch gulp swim mullet and caught my first rock in this boat! Only like 15 inches, and he had some sores on him, sucks to see that. Water seemed cleaner after all the rain, and it was colder as well. Great weather, not hot at all, 20-30 boats, probably 10 of them yaks out there in the morning.
Again I had no success trying to jig the pilings. I need to refine my technique more, it's challenging to keep the jig close to the structure but not so close as to get snagged on the brown gungy stuff. I spent a lot more time unsnagging my rig than actually jigging. Any advice anyone?
That being said, the boats only caught small stuff, the only person to land a big roc I saw was loose change, with what looked like a 30+ fish and another keeper. One of these days I will catch a big roc of my own...
Liveling spot had no results for me, and lots of boaters were doing that and catching nada.
Like Pinch had mentioned I found the small rock and blues blitzing the surface later on, they were right by the first pilings ( east side), it was very fun, caught probably 40 fish, but had to change tactics when the small blues bit the tails off all my swim mullets. A spoon or spinner, some sort of metal lure is much better with the toothy blues.
Those blues are fiesty! One tried to bite my finger off little bugger. I also caught a toad on the deeper pilings on the swim mullet.
At the end of the day, my small spinning rod's 20 lb trilene test revolted on me. I have never seen line twist up so badly, i couldn't even fish with it.
I can't remember the fellow's name on here, but a super nice guy approached me as I was packing up at sunset at G dock and asked if I was a part of the "forum". He gave me a good tip about rigging the spot with a half ounce egg sinker, 18 inches of leader, than slowly trolling up the side of the pilings. He said" all you need is more time on the water" when i said I am having a tough time catching the big ones there. Good stuff.
Again I had no success trying to jig the pilings. I need to refine my technique more, it's challenging to keep the jig close to the structure but not so close as to get snagged on the brown gungy stuff. I spent a lot more time unsnagging my rig than actually jigging. Any advice anyone?
That being said, the boats only caught small stuff, the only person to land a big roc I saw was loose change, with what looked like a 30+ fish and another keeper. One of these days I will catch a big roc of my own...
Liveling spot had no results for me, and lots of boaters were doing that and catching nada.
Like Pinch had mentioned I found the small rock and blues blitzing the surface later on, they were right by the first pilings ( east side), it was very fun, caught probably 40 fish, but had to change tactics when the small blues bit the tails off all my swim mullets. A spoon or spinner, some sort of metal lure is much better with the toothy blues.
Those blues are fiesty! One tried to bite my finger off little bugger. I also caught a toad on the deeper pilings on the swim mullet.
At the end of the day, my small spinning rod's 20 lb trilene test revolted on me. I have never seen line twist up so badly, i couldn't even fish with it.
I can't remember the fellow's name on here, but a super nice guy approached me as I was packing up at sunset at G dock and asked if I was a part of the "forum". He gave me a good tip about rigging the spot with a half ounce egg sinker, 18 inches of leader, than slowly trolling up the side of the pilings. He said" all you need is more time on the water" when i said I am having a tough time catching the big ones there. Good stuff.
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