just shorts yesterday in my usual area, and that is what every boater that slowed to chat said as well. went out this morning armed with my usual pink and white Gulp! and bucks w teaser and nada for two hours of incoming and south wind. Drift sock hardly slowed me down. As the whitecaps and waves increased in the rising breeze, the current slackened and a 16" weak became dinner. wind eased the return paddle up the creek.
Question: Both at the boat ramp and in the open bay, larger fish (7"?) but not bunker! jumped a foot out of the water but no predator seen after them and no big swirl. Juvenile kingfish a guess due to the tubular shape. Are snappers in early ? Would the needlefish I believe I saw a couple of days ago cause this ? I love to liveline snappers in the backbay but usually the calendar is in the 20s of July for me.
another question and another small weak
Mid July is usually when you'll see peanut bunker and juvenile snappers in the bay. Nothing 7". Usually 3-5"
agreed. I can't really catch them with a popper rig for transfer to a killie bucket until the 20s of July. I still have no idea what I saw jumping.
Croaker and/or spot? Good fluke bait... We have 'em now in NJ..
In the strangest of places if you look at it right
* I only surfcast for bass and only with lures but I am sure that fluke and weaks would eat them as well.
Hopefully in ten days or so I am livelining snappers. Between the heat and wind I haven't fished since Monday.*
Croaker and/or spot? Good fluke bait... We have 'em now in NJ..
Spots are deadly with bass, I have a local bait shop that sells what he calls Fluke spots no bigger then 3”
Use a sabiki rig.
My snapper popper rigs include a 1/4oz shiny tin and a teaser on a dropper loop six inches higher. if snappers are there I get a few. killie bucket can only keep a few alive anyway even with being over the side.
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