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ziacatcher · Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 3:19 pm Post subject: The catch of the Day

For the first 30 minutes or so I was fishing today I barely got a bite. I then figured out what the fish were wanting as far as presentation etc.
I was fishing in about 3 to 4 feet of water and didn't matter what lure I eventually used but it was how I fished it that mattered. I used gulps, sand eells and hard plastic slow sinking baits. What I wound up doing is when I thought I was going slow on my retrieve I slow down even more and then slow down even more. When I cast my lure out I would count five before I would start a retrieve then I would twitch it once or twice and wait three or four seconds before I did it again. When I got a bite I would try to set the hook like I normally do and I would lose fish. So what I had to do is that once I felt pressure, because there wasn't really a bite, I just kept the pressure on and let the fish swim and hook itself kind of like you would do at the circle hook. That was the ticket to catching fish today for me. I even went back to some of the spots I fished earlier where I didn't even get a bite and I wound up catching fish. I wound up catching and releasing about 20 keeper trout and tens of others. Also a croaker a red and two drum.

fishinglady · Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:17 pm Post subject:

You seem to always be able to figure out what the fish want....even the itsy- bitsy fish Very Happy

BayFly · Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:22 pm Post subject:

Coach Zia, after looking at the void of fish activity in Tony's light the past couple of nights and then reading your report it made me curious if you had ever tried to correlate what is going on with the fish activity at night with the next day's fishing?

ziacatcher · Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:33 pm Post subject:

Nope. Completely different. The light produces heat among other things which makes the fish more active. I fish a lot different under the light as I do out in the open. Caught several trout tonight in the lights using regular retrieve. All of them small though

BayFly · Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2020 8:34 am Post subject:

As opposed to the bite, I was referencing the amount of activity. Some times, like the last couple of nights there is not many fish in the lights, but on other nights there are very many, as if there is a feeding frenzy. All the more reason to compare the low activity I'm seeing with your experience of a soft bite. If not, so be it, just wondering if there is a correlation?