MikeAce00
04-19-2009, 04:51 PM
Hi All,
I rented a skiff today with the main goal of getting my niece on her first fish. We got there at about 7am loaded up and off we went. My buddy Landon joined us so it was nice having helping tying gear and such.
Beautiful day, water was clear in most parts but seemed to have more of a stain on the northern side of balboa.
I tied Little Megan up with a carolina and put on some cut anchovy for her. I thought that would be her best chance of getting a fish with limited effort. Meanwhile myself and Landon were throwing plastics.
For Megan, 5 seconds afters every cast she would tell me she has a fish and needs to check her bait. The strong drift seemed to be the recurring culprit tugging on her line. I decided to give the dropshot a try after seeing all of the success team Wingnut and other FNN'ers seemed to have on a consistent basis in NPH.
Well I had no love on the D/S, I'm almost certain I'm doing something wrong when I D/S. Meanwhile Megan was getting no love on her cut bait and told me it was time to switch to her purple/pink roboworm. What the heck, it couldn't hurt right. I cast it out there for her and sure enough she tells me she has a fish. I'm sure its just some more eel grass but I watch anyway. As it gets closer I notice the line is moving against the current, but no drag was being taken. The the line switches direction and I'm thinking I think she has her first fish.... sure enough she pulls up her very first fish all by herself. On a pink roboworm none the less. A beautiful, but small sand bass. She was hysterical just absolutely going nuts over her first fish.
Later on I finally kicked the skunk when I pulled an average spottie off the bridge. Of course I hooked it and passed it along to my niece. I asked her to "hold my fishing rod" and what do you know, fish on :Wink: This one started pulling hard and I was just waiting for my rod to drop in the drink but nope, Megs landed her first spottie.
Here's a couple pics
Thanks for reading,
Mike
http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu128/MikeAce00/utf-8BSU1HMDAzMjIuanBn.jpg
http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu128/MikeAce00/utf-8BSU1HMDAzMjUuanBn.jpg
I rented a skiff today with the main goal of getting my niece on her first fish. We got there at about 7am loaded up and off we went. My buddy Landon joined us so it was nice having helping tying gear and such.
Beautiful day, water was clear in most parts but seemed to have more of a stain on the northern side of balboa.
I tied Little Megan up with a carolina and put on some cut anchovy for her. I thought that would be her best chance of getting a fish with limited effort. Meanwhile myself and Landon were throwing plastics.
For Megan, 5 seconds afters every cast she would tell me she has a fish and needs to check her bait. The strong drift seemed to be the recurring culprit tugging on her line. I decided to give the dropshot a try after seeing all of the success team Wingnut and other FNN'ers seemed to have on a consistent basis in NPH.
Well I had no love on the D/S, I'm almost certain I'm doing something wrong when I D/S. Meanwhile Megan was getting no love on her cut bait and told me it was time to switch to her purple/pink roboworm. What the heck, it couldn't hurt right. I cast it out there for her and sure enough she tells me she has a fish. I'm sure its just some more eel grass but I watch anyway. As it gets closer I notice the line is moving against the current, but no drag was being taken. The the line switches direction and I'm thinking I think she has her first fish.... sure enough she pulls up her very first fish all by herself. On a pink roboworm none the less. A beautiful, but small sand bass. She was hysterical just absolutely going nuts over her first fish.
Later on I finally kicked the skunk when I pulled an average spottie off the bridge. Of course I hooked it and passed it along to my niece. I asked her to "hold my fishing rod" and what do you know, fish on :Wink: This one started pulling hard and I was just waiting for my rod to drop in the drink but nope, Megs landed her first spottie.
Here's a couple pics
Thanks for reading,
Mike
http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu128/MikeAce00/utf-8BSU1HMDAzMjIuanBn.jpg
http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu128/MikeAce00/utf-8BSU1HMDAzMjUuanBn.jpg