Since no one is reporting on Rockfish, I will put up a thread.
My Mother and I went out scouting on Saturday. We ran out to the upper Bay and looked all around. No fish on the sonar. No birds in the binoculars. No boats anywhere. We finally marked a few (looked small) on the sonar in 20 feet west of Love Point but by this time we were pretty well convinced we would not be fishing near here for now. Since we were not allowed to actually catch the fish we did not stay out until sunset.
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Mom and I having determined where not to fish on Saturday left us guessing where to start on Sunday. Jason, Matt, Russell and I launched at 6:00 Sunday morning on Jason's boat. We decided to start on some shorelines. We never left the shorelines.
By 8:00 we had caught about 15 fish each on five inch paddletails, five inch poppers, Tony 17s and, as often is the case in spring, seven inch Sebile Magic Swimmers caught the biggest fish. Everything was producing in numbers and the biggest fish came from within 10 feet of shore.
We stopped at 5 different spots and every spot produced but one of the spots was mostly dinks so we we left there. The current stopped moving about 11:00 and we never caught another fish but stayed out until 1:00. Each of us caught about 25 or thirty fish from 20 to 30 inches.
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It was a great day! And there was not another boat near us the entire time! We thought there would be boats everywhere.
Every fish was caught on barbless hooks and released (Except the Sebile hooked fish which tend to be bigger - I leave the barbs on those but usually try to switch out to single hooks.)
Pat
My Mother and I went out scouting on Saturday. We ran out to the upper Bay and looked all around. No fish on the sonar. No birds in the binoculars. No boats anywhere. We finally marked a few (looked small) on the sonar in 20 feet west of Love Point but by this time we were pretty well convinced we would not be fishing near here for now. Since we were not allowed to actually catch the fish we did not stay out until sunset.
Mom and I having determined where not to fish on Saturday left us guessing where to start on Sunday. Jason, Matt, Russell and I launched at 6:00 Sunday morning on Jason's boat. We decided to start on some shorelines. We never left the shorelines.
By 8:00 we had caught about 15 fish each on five inch paddletails, five inch poppers, Tony 17s and, as often is the case in spring, seven inch Sebile Magic Swimmers caught the biggest fish. Everything was producing in numbers and the biggest fish came from within 10 feet of shore.
We stopped at 5 different spots and every spot produced but one of the spots was mostly dinks so we we left there. The current stopped moving about 11:00 and we never caught another fish but stayed out until 1:00. Each of us caught about 25 or thirty fish from 20 to 30 inches.
It was a great day! And there was not another boat near us the entire time! We thought there would be boats everywhere.
Every fish was caught on barbless hooks and released (Except the Sebile hooked fish which tend to be bigger - I leave the barbs on those but usually try to switch out to single hooks.)
Pat
