8/23 Newport Pier for Irvine Lake macks

[troutdog]

I've gotta make this short, because I am about to crash out and need to be sharp for Saturday. Went to the Newport Pier in an effort to fill a bucket full of mack for Irvine Saturday. Got a decent sized sardine and a few bite size spanish macks in the first 1/2 hour. The key was being at the end of the pier and as soon as a spot opened up I grabbed it. Unfortunately it was getting late and the my daughter had to be in bed for a big day at Knotts Friday and then Irvine Sat. We did have enough time to catch a few decent size macks...
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/mack.jpg

I am thinking about another quick session in the morning to get a few more macks, aside from that there are some big bonnies around...saw two of them pushing 4lbs or so. Other catches I saw included a big guitarfish, a fat spotfin crocker and a few perch. Bottom line you want macks, hit the end of the pier with sabiki or lucky joes...btw it looked like rigs with larger flys/feathers/yarn were getting more fish.

Hooked up with Grimpy...he was cool enough to drop off a rig he won from SARL to be raffled off on Saturday! :thumb:

Good luck and thanks for reading...hope to see you on Saturday.


TD

[one_leg]

Put a little glow stick on your line at night. It helps a lot.

One_Leg

[ThemBastards]

Cheater!!! Fresh mac huh? Ok. Good haul man. Any good piers in the IE :rofl:

[ghetto dad]

Cheater!!! Fresh mac huh? Ok. Good haul man. Any good piers in the IE :rofl:

I heard the corona pier is wide open on macs flyling fresh cow pies.......

[ThemBastards]

Cheater!!! Fresh mac huh? Ok. Good haul man. Any good piers in the IE :rofl:

I heard the corona pier is wide open on macs flyling fresh cow pies.......

Fresh cowpies huh? Im gonna have to make the drive to Norco after work then.

[ghetto dad]

Cheater!!! Fresh mac huh? Ok. Good haul man. Any good piers in the IE :rofl:

I heard the corona pier is wide open on macs flyling fresh cow pies.......

Fresh cowpies huh? Im gonna have to make the drive to Norco after work then.

what happened to all your corona cows???

[ThemBastards]

[quote=ThemBastards]Cheater!!! Fresh mac huh? Ok. Good haul man. Any good piers in the IE :rofl:

I heard the corona pier is wide open on macs flyling fresh cow pies.......

Fresh cowpies huh? Im gonna have to make the drive to Norco after work then.

what happened to all your corona cows???[/quote:142b9]

Well ghetto while there definately are cows in corona, I dont know where they are. I live in the South Hills(I typed that as snobbishly as possible) in 2 year old 5 bedroom house. No cows in sight, and again I just moved here from Costa Mesa so there might be some out here, that I dont know about.

I believe most of the cow pastures are in Norco.

[pineapple express]

howzit troutdog
i was out there @ 9pm for some catfish bait too for my next catfish outting... did we cross paths & didnt know it ?
peace out
PE

[Wingnut]

Now I know who to hit up Saturday for bait! :wink:

[ghetto dad]

[quote=ThemBastards]Cheater!!! Fresh mac huh? Ok. Good haul man. Any good piers in the IE :rofl:

I heard the corona pier is wide open on macs flyling fresh cow pies.......

Fresh cowpies huh? Im gonna have to make the drive to Norco after work then.

what happened to all your corona cows???

Well ghetto while there definately are cows in corona, I dont know where they are. I live in the South Hills(I typed that as snobbishly as possible) in 2 year old 5 bedroom house. No cows in sight, and again I just moved here from Costa Mesa so there might be some out here, that I dont know about.

I believe most of the cow pastures are in Norco.[/quote:343e8]

cool......

[troutdog]

howzit troutdog
i was out there @ 9pm for some catfish bait too for my next catfish outting... did we cross paths & didnt know it ?
peace out
PE

I bet we just missed eachother....I think we left around 8:30 or so, was wearing a 57shirt too! Sorry I missed you PE....did you fill up your bucket at the end of the pier? The night time seems to be the right time from what I have been hearing.


TD

[smokehound]

you want to hit the longer piers for a higher abundance of mackerel.

I always thought HB yielded the most macks, with the average sized macks being a foot long.