5150fishn
04-21-2014, 12:30 PM
With catfish season coming and rumors of Macks hitting local piers I decided to go Friday night and try to get some bait.
Arrived at the pier at 9:00 p.m. to find the pier crowded and macks flying over the rails. Woohoo!:EyePop:
Found a spot 3/4 down the pier and rigged a sabiki with squid! Toss it over and it gets hammered quick! 3 macks come over the rail. Woohoo!!! After about 10 minutes I cut all the hooks off but 1. Less tangles from the boiling macks. Left the pier at 11:45 with the macks in a bag. Get home and toss them in the garage freezer and off to bed. In the morning I get up with my 5yr old daughter Sammie and let wifey sleep in and take Sammie to a local Easter Egg Hunt. (bank 1 hall pass) Lol!:Wink:
Get back and Sammie and I proceed to put the macks I caught on the grass to wash them off and bag them up into manageable ziplocks.
http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w416/5150fishn/Macks_zpsfc9af822.jpg (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/5150fishn/media/Macks_zpsfc9af822.jpg.html)
I count them 3 times, What are the odds of ending up with 57 macks, are you kidding me!!!!:Bug Eyes:Team 57 luck I tell you!
Sent the photo to fellow Team 57 bro Rooster.
Rob and his crew are excited and decide to head out that night. I give them the intel and go on with my day.
But all I could think about was, Could I? Should I? Lol:Secret:
I decide why not and throw out my earlier gained hall pass from my great wife.:UDaMan: Call Rob and tell him I'm taking my daughter hiking but will meet them there later tonight.
Leave the house at 8:00 and call Rob and he says they have about 5 but the bite is gone!!! Bummer
Get to the pier and it becomes very apparent that Rob has been fishing very little and untangling and re-rigging alot! Lol
So I toss the hoop net over to see if any crabs wanted to play and then the boils began again. I took over some tangle and re-rigging issues so that Rob could get some action like I had the night before.
At 1 point I was taking a mack off of a hook when it self released and I ended up with a hook buried in my thumb! Ouch!!!:EyePop:
Nothing a pair of pliers and a good tug can't fix. Lol
At the end of the night we had another 60 macks for bait stock. SWEET
Night ended with my hoop net snagged on something on the pier though. I could litterally lift it a foot out of the water but something that we couldn't see was holding on to 1 side. Pulled every direction to try and free it but all I retrieved was a broken rope! Lol
Lost a conical style hoop net with who knows what in it but I really didn't care. Great fishing with great friends. Doesn't get any better than that.
If you are looking for macks for bait or whatever,you might want to hit the piers now. It was off the hook!!!
Arrived at the pier at 9:00 p.m. to find the pier crowded and macks flying over the rails. Woohoo!:EyePop:
Found a spot 3/4 down the pier and rigged a sabiki with squid! Toss it over and it gets hammered quick! 3 macks come over the rail. Woohoo!!! After about 10 minutes I cut all the hooks off but 1. Less tangles from the boiling macks. Left the pier at 11:45 with the macks in a bag. Get home and toss them in the garage freezer and off to bed. In the morning I get up with my 5yr old daughter Sammie and let wifey sleep in and take Sammie to a local Easter Egg Hunt. (bank 1 hall pass) Lol!:Wink:
Get back and Sammie and I proceed to put the macks I caught on the grass to wash them off and bag them up into manageable ziplocks.
http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w416/5150fishn/Macks_zpsfc9af822.jpg (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/5150fishn/media/Macks_zpsfc9af822.jpg.html)
I count them 3 times, What are the odds of ending up with 57 macks, are you kidding me!!!!:Bug Eyes:Team 57 luck I tell you!
Sent the photo to fellow Team 57 bro Rooster.
Rob and his crew are excited and decide to head out that night. I give them the intel and go on with my day.
But all I could think about was, Could I? Should I? Lol:Secret:
I decide why not and throw out my earlier gained hall pass from my great wife.:UDaMan: Call Rob and tell him I'm taking my daughter hiking but will meet them there later tonight.
Leave the house at 8:00 and call Rob and he says they have about 5 but the bite is gone!!! Bummer
Get to the pier and it becomes very apparent that Rob has been fishing very little and untangling and re-rigging alot! Lol
So I toss the hoop net over to see if any crabs wanted to play and then the boils began again. I took over some tangle and re-rigging issues so that Rob could get some action like I had the night before.
At 1 point I was taking a mack off of a hook when it self released and I ended up with a hook buried in my thumb! Ouch!!!:EyePop:
Nothing a pair of pliers and a good tug can't fix. Lol
At the end of the night we had another 60 macks for bait stock. SWEET
Night ended with my hoop net snagged on something on the pier though. I could litterally lift it a foot out of the water but something that we couldn't see was holding on to 1 side. Pulled every direction to try and free it but all I retrieved was a broken rope! Lol
Lost a conical style hoop net with who knows what in it but I really didn't care. Great fishing with great friends. Doesn't get any better than that.
If you are looking for macks for bait or whatever,you might want to hit the piers now. It was off the hook!!!