Slickwill43
10-14-2013, 09:42 AM
Hit-up a new AO on Saturday from 6-10 up by sunset beach, the action was pretty slow on squid, shrimp, and crack until he sun was good and up.
Then started getting into some small leos and thornback rays, followed by a small shovelnose.
Was starting to think that is all that liked my bait, then we moved to a much flatter area with a muddy bottom and a deeper drop and I got nailed
by what I thought was a big shovelnose at first, when it got into shallow water it started absolutely thrashing though and I was like what is this?
Turned out to be a first for me of a big spotfin croaker (~19"), was a great fight and the biggest non-shark/ray/shovel I have caught from the surf.
Boy did he grunt/croak at me while I took pictures heh, CPRed quick and back into the ocean he went.
Gonna try this area out more at different tides, felt like there was more to find, also the muddy bottom was interesting there were tons and tons of little birds
pecking, so I dug a bit expecting to find crabs, but instead it was hundreds of tiny baby clams, presumably fish eat these as well?
Cant seem to get the pics to upload correctly, keeps giving me a red X instead of the normal green checkmark :(
Then started getting into some small leos and thornback rays, followed by a small shovelnose.
Was starting to think that is all that liked my bait, then we moved to a much flatter area with a muddy bottom and a deeper drop and I got nailed
by what I thought was a big shovelnose at first, when it got into shallow water it started absolutely thrashing though and I was like what is this?
Turned out to be a first for me of a big spotfin croaker (~19"), was a great fight and the biggest non-shark/ray/shovel I have caught from the surf.
Boy did he grunt/croak at me while I took pictures heh, CPRed quick and back into the ocean he went.
Gonna try this area out more at different tides, felt like there was more to find, also the muddy bottom was interesting there were tons and tons of little birds
pecking, so I dug a bit expecting to find crabs, but instead it was hundreds of tiny baby clams, presumably fish eat these as well?
Cant seem to get the pics to upload correctly, keeps giving me a red X instead of the normal green checkmark :(