Natural Lefty
07-22-2011, 04:08 PM
Okay, this is sort of a report but there isn't much to report except my fish that got away story, so I'll post it here.
I went to Perris yesterday afternoon around 5 p.m. for the first time in a couple of months, and headed to the docks near shore where you can fish for free.
The fishing wasn't very good for anybody -- just a limited number of small Bluegill and one guy caught 2 small Bass on a plastic worm. I caught 2 Bluegills on a beadheaded nymph, and one on a nightcrawler piece. I kept waiting for a surface bite on midge feeding Bluegills that never materialized.
Eventually, a woman who was fishing there had a bigger fish on the line but it came off. Less than a minute later, I hooked a large fish on my 2 pound line and it took several runs, then fell off the hook after about a minute. I cast in again, and immediately had another hookup with a large fish (the same gullible fish?). This time I had this big Redear, Bass or whatever on for a good couple of minutes and thought I was going to land it, but suddenly, my line snapped right at the reel. (The line has been on there a long time and it's only 2 pound line.)
A while later, fishing with my 6 pound line, I dragged in another line. Lo and behold, it was the line the fish had snapped, and the fish was still on it. I tried my best at handlining the fish into position where it could be netted. I got it to where we could see it. The guy next to me had the best view and said it looked like a Bass, and he could see my little (1/80 ounce) jig in the fish's big mouth, so I'll take his word for it. What I saw looked like the shape of a Redear, but I only saw the front part of the fish I guess. Anyway, the line snapped again after awhile, this time by the jig. Oh well! I am sure other people have strange fish that got away or fish that were caught stories like that.
It's strange how I always seem to lose a big fish in the Perris Marina everytime I go there, and rarely seem to catch the big ones, but I think the cables and my light line have a lot to do with that. The other guy said he thought the fish was about 1 to 1 1/2 pounds, but it sure pulled hard on my 2 pound line.
No other larger fish bit, just that apparently one gullible fish that bit on nightcrawler pieces.
I went to Perris yesterday afternoon around 5 p.m. for the first time in a couple of months, and headed to the docks near shore where you can fish for free.
The fishing wasn't very good for anybody -- just a limited number of small Bluegill and one guy caught 2 small Bass on a plastic worm. I caught 2 Bluegills on a beadheaded nymph, and one on a nightcrawler piece. I kept waiting for a surface bite on midge feeding Bluegills that never materialized.
Eventually, a woman who was fishing there had a bigger fish on the line but it came off. Less than a minute later, I hooked a large fish on my 2 pound line and it took several runs, then fell off the hook after about a minute. I cast in again, and immediately had another hookup with a large fish (the same gullible fish?). This time I had this big Redear, Bass or whatever on for a good couple of minutes and thought I was going to land it, but suddenly, my line snapped right at the reel. (The line has been on there a long time and it's only 2 pound line.)
A while later, fishing with my 6 pound line, I dragged in another line. Lo and behold, it was the line the fish had snapped, and the fish was still on it. I tried my best at handlining the fish into position where it could be netted. I got it to where we could see it. The guy next to me had the best view and said it looked like a Bass, and he could see my little (1/80 ounce) jig in the fish's big mouth, so I'll take his word for it. What I saw looked like the shape of a Redear, but I only saw the front part of the fish I guess. Anyway, the line snapped again after awhile, this time by the jig. Oh well! I am sure other people have strange fish that got away or fish that were caught stories like that.
It's strange how I always seem to lose a big fish in the Perris Marina everytime I go there, and rarely seem to catch the big ones, but I think the cables and my light line have a lot to do with that. The other guy said he thought the fish was about 1 to 1 1/2 pounds, but it sure pulled hard on my 2 pound line.
No other larger fish bit, just that apparently one gullible fish that bit on nightcrawler pieces.