Wednesday is not my usual fishing day of the week, but Mike said he couldn't fish on Thursday so we laid plans to hit the surf last night. I get to the A.O. around 8pm to find minimal salad. I was expecting much more since Mike and Tom had reported a salad feast a couple of days earlier. I just got a new set of 7oz sputniks from Klammer and I wanted to see if the extra once makes a difference on the casting distance. My first cast with the 7oz weights does sail further then the normal 6oz weights that I use. I put my rod into the holder and I can see I am getting some interest right away. I'm fishing next to some structure, so I'm kinda worried that the rig or fish will hang me up. I get a nice hit within 10 minutes of tossing out my first bait out there. I wait to see if it's a critter or the right kind. I feel nothing, so I reel in the rig to find my Mac completely bit in half. (I was using a whole small Mac) Mike think it was either a shark or eel. I cast my new bait out again and wait another 10 minutes before I get the 7gill type bite. I set the hook and a couple of good head shakes, so I know it's the right kind. It goes straight toward the structure I was hoping to avoid. A minute later my line snaps, I reel in the line to fine a clean break. My guess was that it broke when the line was nicked by the reef.
I move 20 yards from the reef to give me a little room. Around 10pm I get the right kind to come back again. This time I was rewarded with a juvenile male 7gill (70").
Mike catches a couple of critters too, but that was it for me last night.
Good luck out there guys.
