bsp
04-02-2008, 05:49 PM
I know this is a bit late, but a late report is better than no report!
This Saturday I finally had an opportunity to go surf fishing on, so I took it. I got to the beach at low tide (11:30am) and started looking around for structure. I found a nice trough (4 feet deep) about 10 yards from the shore that I followed until it emptied into a big bowel. There were some scattered bait fish inside the area of the trough right next to the bowel, but nothing was chasing them. Outside the outer break near the bowel there were about 10 pelicans working a bait ball. I started casting a Sound Mute Lucky Craft Flash Minnow 110 in Metallic Iwashi. In the middle of my retrieve I noticed a pelican hovering over the water near where I had cast out. After watching it for about a minute, I realized that it was following my Lucky Craft! I burned the lure in and watched the pelican fly off. This happened to my two more times, and it was the only action I had for the next 3 hours. My cousin was using Gulp and caught 5 or 6 perch after showing up an hour after I did.
This may seem like a dumb question, but do you guys use a straight retrieve (just reeling) or do you use a twitch-twitch-pause retrieve? Thanks.
This Saturday I finally had an opportunity to go surf fishing on, so I took it. I got to the beach at low tide (11:30am) and started looking around for structure. I found a nice trough (4 feet deep) about 10 yards from the shore that I followed until it emptied into a big bowel. There were some scattered bait fish inside the area of the trough right next to the bowel, but nothing was chasing them. Outside the outer break near the bowel there were about 10 pelicans working a bait ball. I started casting a Sound Mute Lucky Craft Flash Minnow 110 in Metallic Iwashi. In the middle of my retrieve I noticed a pelican hovering over the water near where I had cast out. After watching it for about a minute, I realized that it was following my Lucky Craft! I burned the lure in and watched the pelican fly off. This happened to my two more times, and it was the only action I had for the next 3 hours. My cousin was using Gulp and caught 5 or 6 perch after showing up an hour after I did.
This may seem like a dumb question, but do you guys use a straight retrieve (just reeling) or do you use a twitch-twitch-pause retrieve? Thanks.