My daughter's birthday party is today and I had the urge to fish prior to the festivities. It's been a while since I've stalked the bay and it felt like a good morning as any to do so.
I tried hunting some corvina for my first 4 stops with only a needlefish to show for it. It looked like it may be the needlefish curse. On my last stop, I switched up to some plastics doused in Calico c*cktail and finally got on the board!
Not big, but it was a skunk buster. Then it all went wide open! About a 50 yard stretch of beach was chock full of spotties! I preceded to catch them on every other cast for the next couple of hours.
Most were typical sized bass at 8-10 inches, but I did manage some better grade fish in the mix!
The needlefish were a bear also. I found the mother-load of them and they did some damage on my swimmies. If I got through them, then I usually got some bass.
In between bass, I had a few really good hits and though I had a corvina, but nope! The Calico c*cktail works with croaker too!
I get some more bass with a few better grade ones as the tide started coming in.
Fat and Stumpy
Getting bigger!
Then I thought I had another corvina on again! Nope, YFC #2!
Ended up with 24 bass, 2 YFC and a needle fish. I had a corvina chase and swipe at my swimmy 5' from shore, but it didn't get all of it and only had it hooked for a second.
Things started to get busy, so I walked back to the truck and found a poor King that got squashed on the road! It wasn't there when I walked down, so it must have just happened. Such a bummer.
Well, a great morning indeed. I sometimes forget how fun some shoreline stalking can be!
