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Shore Fishing => Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports => : Latimeria July 05, 2021, 05:41:48 PM
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It was Go Bigger or nothing. Basically using a 1/2 oz weedless head with a 4" swimbait (instead of the 3/8 oz and 3"). I also had 12# line instead of my normal 8# just in case as I was hoping to get something bigger than I usually do.
The Bay was PACKED! Not in the water, but every inch of shoreline was taken and things were about to get ugly. I made some casts, but quickly started getting bites in the weediest of areas! My only thing was I didn't cut down the weed guard, so the guard would also not allow a good hookset. Also, I should have been using braid because on the hooksets, there was too much stretch in my line that I could feel. Oh well, but I had well over 3 dozen fish on, or swung on, if not more.
I had a few beauties that I somehow lost right at the rock edge before lifting them up the jetty. Biggest were 14" models, but the good thing was this was the smallest one I caught. I only was batting about 30% for the morning.
(https://i.imgur.com/hs8bRp1.jpg)
Most of the time, my baits were getting slammed and coming back like this.... I probably saw this around 2 dozen times in a few hours.
(https://i.imgur.com/oS99NHE.jpg)
I finally had a good hit and thought I had a nice corvina... then I saw a 24" halibut swimming right at me with the hook just at the edge of the mouth. I thought I could use it's momentum to bounce it up on the rocks, but it shook as it came out of the water, hit the mid-line rocks and literally bounced off 4 or 5 rocks before splashing back in the water. Soo, bummed, but as I moved down a little to make some fresh casts, I stumbled on a bum taking a crap behind a bush and totally ruined the rest of my morning.
I just called it quits after 3 hours of fishing and was on the road by 8:30 as the bay started to come alive.
I hope everyone had a great 4th of july!
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Nice session! Farmed one butt, saw another!
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Early session, nice way to start the day 8)
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Nice session! Farmed one butt, saw another!
;D ;D ;D