I saw the tide was coming in pretty good and it was the day prior to the storm, so seemed to be a perfect time to get out and fish some rocks. Timing was thankfully textbook!
I caught 6 spotties on the 3.5" swimbait in fairly short order. Maybe 1 fish per 8 casts.
I switched to the underspin to see f I could call up an exotic like a corvina or halibut, but after 30 casts, I didn't have a single hit. At this point I already had 6 fish under my belt, so I switched out the underspin with a 1/2 weedless head and a 4" MC swimbait... Wow! I literally cast right where I was casting the underspin and got one right away.
I was at the right place at the right time because I was getting a fish every two casts! I barely moved 10 feet and caught 17!!!
They were inhaling it!
There were a couple of nicer grade bass in the mix also.
All I had to do was move 10 feet down and it was like a totally new fresh spot!
The Procure "Cheater Sauce" was making them inhale it.
Eel grass was they key. I tried using a jig with no weed guard because I lost a few fish and decided it was the weed guard knocking them off, but just always got weeded, so went back to the 1/2 oz weed guard jig head.
The next hit and I think I get snagged, but realized it was a butt! Looked like a 24" model, but it was in all the floating dead eel grass at the rocks edge and I tried to flip it up, but soon as i put my hand in the water, the line just snapped and I watched it swim away with my last 4" MC Light Bluegill. I tried to pick another color and had one 1/2 oz lead head left, so went with the Light Grunion. Next cast and it worked!
I’m at 27 bass and Dave calls me again, so I took a break and filled him in with the hot fishing. As I was talking to him, I was still fishing and trying to get my last 3! I literally missed 3 while talking to him, so had to go as I had the number 30 in my head and wanted to reach my lofty goal!
The next 35 minutes were long and painful as I got two more around 9” and finally got #30! Jeez, that seemed to take forever after having such wide open fishing just an hour before!
Well, I lost the entire story while typing it somehow so I had to type it up again. Sorry if there are any redundancies or just confusing phrases as It ticked me off that everything disappeared for no reason and I had to think it all over again. lol
Well, thanks for reading! Making the most out of my time off!