It's my granddaughter's birthday today and we have plans down at the lakes for some people to get together. In the meantime, I had a few hours to kill, so ran down to the bay in this beautiful misty/cool weather!
God, the bay is just a mess. Homeless, trash, zonies parked up and down every public street... just a sad look to it. I decided to try a few old areas that were slammed by the bay dredging and fishing seemed to go south in a hurry after that. Foe two years, I haven't seemed to find many fish in these newly created deserts. Maybe today would be different?
Well, it wasn't wide open, but there was a steady pick.
First fish was a butt, which I thought was a lump of grass at first. I tried to slide him up for a picture, but the hook never got a good hookset and it did it's halibut flop and threw the hook. Thankfully, he only swam towards me to get his bearings I guess, so I got a picture of him anyway! I tried to free hand catch him, but he saw my mitts coming for him and poof! Off he went!
I had a short bite and then a few casts later felt like I loaded up with weeds again! This time I did a sweeping low hookset and realized it was exactly what I thought it was and another halibut! Wow, not bad, 2 fish and neither of them were bass yet! I actually thought it was the same fish at first, but I didn't see another hole in his mouth, but he also didn't let me check his mouth for long.
I worked my way down the beach and on a cast, had a skimmer fly into my line! As I was burning in my cast to make sure it didn't cut into my line anywhere, I saw a hug wake behind my swimmy! I slowed down the retrieve, but it scared what was chasing it and I saw a 2 foot silvery something make a 90 degree turn and bolt out of there leaving a big wake. It was just in enough glare, that I couldn't positively ID it, but I saw it... I almost thought a mullet, but pretty certain it might have been a corvina. After a few dozen more casts, I moved on.
Finally found a bass...
and a little further down, I found another.
That was it. Everything seemed to quiet down, so I moved to another spot which really went downhill after the dredging. After talking with Dave on how bad this spot got, I wound up getting one, so hopefully this area is improving! (I managed two at this spot, but the second one was only about 5-7" long and it was stuck on the plastic, and not actually having the hook penetrating its mouth)
While walking along the rocks, I did a little Sasquatching...
Well, that was it. The bay started to turn on with all the weirdos, so it was time for me to head back East. I am digging these cooler, wetter temps right now as next week is going to be miserably hot!
Thanks for reading....
