GOTFISHUES
06-13-2008, 08:27 PM
good day/evening to you all, so yesterday i decide that 3 days dry is long enough, so i head out to a local spot to attack me some spotties. of course by the time i get on waters edge its at peak high tide, no water movement, but good above water conditions. i start throwing my drop shot moving around with nothing, a few nibbles but no strikes at all for about 32 minutes. so i reel in and decide to lip hook my gulp minnow for better action, first cast i get nailed, im fully bent, reeling in and then my rod goes boing' stiffens straight up......im all "what the" so i work the line ever so delicatly all the way back to the rocks, only to find my hook empty, fish made off with my gulp. bum deal, so i re-rig same stuff. nothings going on so i grab something to drink, when i look back at the water i see four hungry needle fish pushing two feet long each. what do you do when your rigged with a drop shot and theres top water action in front of you, you throw at 'em thats what. so i cast and start rippin' & twitchn' nothing first two cast then one of them see's me and charges, rod loads up fish on settin' hook then wham, i have my hook and weight flying out of water coming striaght at my face. couldnt sink the hook in his jaws, so i pull a matrix, lean back and nearly ate my own hook. again bum deal, so im over the drop shot, no spotties, close calls, and stolen bait, now its on. so i rig up "tomingo-twist" with the same type of bait and start ripping the top, a few cast im on, nothing big but i i burn that reel just to get this guy in. so first fish a dink corvina'
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll140/GOTFISSUES/200806120002.jpg
nothing to write home about but its a fish, could have mada "a" taco with him, but check
out the chomper' on this dude.
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll140/GOTFISSUES/200806120001.jpg
alright, my nerves calm for a moment, skunk is off, so i keep throwing but water is dead, fish are far and few in between, i start working the "t-t" on the bottom, slow pops in between creeper reeling. then a nibble, i swing, again fish on, i can tell its not a spottie, nor a corvina, then she surfaces, a little stingwray.
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll140/GOTFISSUES/200806120003.jpg
frontal view little blurry, apologies.
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll140/GOTFISSUES/200806120004.jpg
so there it is, mission task - failed
mission fun factor - about a 6
stoke on catching a new "tomingo-twist" species - big time.
thanx for your time, ill be back next week.
ciao'
GOTFISHUES
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll140/GOTFISSUES/200806120002.jpg
nothing to write home about but its a fish, could have mada "a" taco with him, but check
out the chomper' on this dude.
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll140/GOTFISSUES/200806120001.jpg
alright, my nerves calm for a moment, skunk is off, so i keep throwing but water is dead, fish are far and few in between, i start working the "t-t" on the bottom, slow pops in between creeper reeling. then a nibble, i swing, again fish on, i can tell its not a spottie, nor a corvina, then she surfaces, a little stingwray.
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll140/GOTFISSUES/200806120003.jpg
frontal view little blurry, apologies.
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll140/GOTFISSUES/200806120004.jpg
so there it is, mission task - failed
mission fun factor - about a 6
stoke on catching a new "tomingo-twist" species - big time.
thanx for your time, ill be back next week.
ciao'
GOTFISHUES