Aside from short fluke, I really haven't caught anything from my town's ocean beach this season, or seen any others have any success as yet. Mind you I just fish daytime and no longer drive anywhere else. Yesterday, with a strong NW wind over my shoulder, I used my 9' Lami with a simple Penn Slammer 360 to launch some lures. No weed, no birds and no visible bait. After 30 minutes of nothing, I moved west 100 yds and instantly had a hit and brought in something halfway to the beach. That was on a yellow 6" Mag Darter with a bucktail teaser.
Disappointed, I recast and then had a quick hit on the same rig but no hookup. A few minutes later I had what I realized was another bluefish, fought it halfway in and retrieved my lure sans teaser. The teaser-less dropper loop was shredded. Without the teaser, I had no other hits until I switched to a teaser-less rig but with a "well endowed" (I add my own bucktail) bucktailed Kastmaster. Never landed a fish yesterday but had fun. Going to give it a go again today, even though I will be hitting low tide again, and again with the northerly wind I should be able to go with a 9.
Disappointed, I recast and then had a quick hit on the same rig but no hookup. A few minutes later I had what I realized was another bluefish, fought it halfway in and retrieved my lure sans teaser. The teaser-less dropper loop was shredded. Without the teaser, I had no other hits until I switched to a teaser-less rig but with a "well endowed" (I add my own bucktail) bucktailed Kastmaster. Never landed a fish yesterday but had fun. Going to give it a go again today, even though I will be hitting low tide again, and again with the northerly wind I should be able to go with a 9.
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