For fear of being labeled a "lurker" (love that word  ) and because I actually remembered to bring my camera, here is my first post of the new season. For those of you who are new to surf fishing and/or new to this site, please do not ask where I was fishing. Read the post, it ain't exactly the DaVinci code.
Last set of tides I had been fishing DEEP in the west end BAY and working over a body of small fish on small BAIT, with the fish size nothing to get excited about. Fished two areas DEEP in the BAY yesterday (5/10) from 6:00 - 10:00 pm, OUTGOING to end of TIDE, foggy w/ a SW BREEZE.
First area I fished was around Zachs bay (oh no, burned that spot), which is an area I used to find EARLY SEASON fish in (before they blocked my secret parking spot off). Hadn't fished it in a couple years because of my lost parking spot, so I figured I'd walk in from Field 6 and give it a look. Doooohhhhhh, what was I thinking!!!!! Took me 50 minutes to WALK out to the POINT, man was I tired. All that to fish for 15 minutes, and raise two small bass (caught 1) on a chrome knuckle-head popper. Of note, there was NO VISIBLE BAIT (WHICH IS WHY I LEFT) and the water was clean with little or no weed.
Second area is DEEP on the NORTH SIDE OF THE BAY, where I had fish the last set of tides. Got there just before dark, TIDE OUTGOING, water clean, little weed but not a problem, slight BREEZE FROM THE SW, foggy. Still TONS OF small BAIT around. Soon as it got DARK, the BITE TURNED ON. I literally had fish swimming through my legs. They were up on the FLATS behind me herding bait, but were very picky. It was fun to watch though, because at times I was completely surrounded by fish. Probably would have hooked up if I was using a teaser, but didn't want to take the time due to the large number of CATCHABLE fish on THE DROP-OFF in the main CHANNEL. Started with a chicken scratch bomber, but quickly switched to a needlefish because the PROFILE MATCHed the BAIT better. Had 5 fish (24"-31") in an hour, all released, and dropped as many, including a nice fish (and a needlefish plug) to some old STRUCTURE in the CHANNEL. Tide died at around 10:00 pm and so did the bite.
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