One of my species fishing friends was in town over the weekend, and he had a few targets that I could help with - horn shark, longjaw mudsucker, and chameleon goby. Friday night we fished a spot in MB where horn sharks are caught, and sure enough he got one on his first cast. I got my hopes up that I'd catch one as well, but it didn't end up happening. However, the last bite of the evening was this 17 lb diamond stingray, which was a fantastic consolation prize.
Here's a few other pics from the night. I'm sure you can reverse engineer the spot if you're so inclined.
On Saturday we skunked out at the chameleon goby spot off Shelter Island, but the longjaw mudsucker spot delivered. My buddy caught his first, and I caught the biggest one I've seen.
We also saw a lot of juvenile rays at this spot - round, butterfly, and diamond. They were comically easy to catch by putting a piece of shrimp in their feeding path and waiting about 15 seconds. I caught one small diamond and then left the rest alone.
Here's our combined species list from the two days:
- spotted sand bass
- barred sand bass
- horn shark
- gray smoothhound
- shovelnose guitarfish
- thornback
- round stingray
- butterfly ray
- bat ray
- diamond stingray
- bay blenny
- largemouth blenny
- opaleye
- longjaw mudsucker
- California killifish