Went out last Wednesday to see if I could find the threshers. Launched at 4:30pm, Didn’t bring bait, just a sabiki and wasted over an hour and half trying to catch Mack’s… lots of small baits around but no Mack’s until I finally ran over a school around 6pm.
Got a few in the bag, spiked them and sent them out for a drift. Did 3 drifts covering some structure and picked up more Mack’s on the drift. Final drift I decided to go in super shallow and start in 35ft rather than 50ish and drift into the beach. 28ft I get picked up, hook up and classic small thresher fight but after 20 seconds and 2 good runs my 100lb mono top shot broke… clean cut with chafe.. not sure what happened there but it was getting late so I headed in.
Next day Britney and I went out about 4pm with the fresh Mack’s (froze them over night) and went right up on the beach. Did 4 drifts with one knock down but no hookup and was getting frustrated. Drifting into 20ft of water and as I was pulling in the float rod the fly line got picked up. Quick fight and Britney had a 47” FL thresher on her lap!
Had to book it out of the surf zone before we got into breakers, got some pics then headed for the harbor.
