BassyiusMaximus
07-23-2007, 02:12 PM
. . . it was very early Saturday morning. I'm taking the GF, brother and Dad out for some fishing as we had not been out in over a week, yeah, long time, right? I have, through some of my usual searching around by boat over all the years I have been fishing, found a rip where no one fishes, and where I can drift and cast to bluefish and hook them up during any tide, any time of the day and in any kind of weather not a few miles from landfall. And as we love to get the feel of getting tight/hooking up fish/feeling the take of the fish after casting out our cheap, $2 Renegade-lures first thing in the morning and getting the skunk off, (I had better buy all the lures I can find now that I put this out there, but if it helps others not having to pay top-dollar for lures then what the heck!) We hit up that rip early Saturday morning. The great thing is that even though we have all of our usual fishing haunts where we are almost guaranteed fish, we still look so forward to going to them even though I have been expanding our fishing universe little by little by trying new areas. That is, we never get sick of catching and as fisherman, who does? Do I go on and on or am I long winded?, please, click me off if I am otherwise, where are we going with this?
I usually go with deeper diving, smaller, but a bit heavier swimming lures this time of year in the rips, however, as the store was out of the much more expensive lures I usually find myself thinking I need to go with, I bought a bunch of the cheapest deep-diving lures I could find and boy did they work. Now, just like most of you all, I keep in tune with all the scientific research that is put out in the magazines and that is reported online regarding colors and lure shapes and movement through the water, and believe that as long as the lure vibrates through the water and moves and wiggles from side to side like most lures do, and if the fish are there and hungry, they will eat the lure. I'm thankful that long ago I realized this so that I don't think that I need every single kind of lure shape, weight, color, pattern and so on and need to buy a lure or two or 10 every time I set foot in the tackle shop. I'm thankful that I can go in about every time to either get the bait that I cannot get myself or to reload on simple hooks, weights or swivels/terminal tackle, I am blessed in so many ways, I know. The tackle shop might not like me and but the freedom of going in and being able to walk past all the rows of parachutes, jigs, poppers, swimmers, metals, etc., is very liberating and feels good. For there will be multitudes of those for whom my words of nonsense will never reach and the lures will keep flying off the shelf but like I know, give me a wallet (with cash and A good credit card), keys (to something with an engine) and life is good.
So of course, bluefish will hit the "Bart-Simpson" lure I have, you know, the one with Bart Simpson, or any of the Simpson's characters with treble hooks in it that I got for a X-mas present from someone that must have passed it on from a re-gift, that and the fish will eat the Budweiser can with treble hooks in it, yes, they all catch the bluefish so I know that about anything will work for those critters which most despise. What surprised me though, and all of us, were the Bonito that were in this particular rip, surprising in that it is still July and that they were willing to eat any of the lures we were using that day, thus, putting to rest, at least for me, that I need to use the expensive $8+ lures that I used to use in the fancy packages to get these fish to eat. Plus it was nice having the N-NE wind at our backs and with tide against the wind and a very well defined rip-line, to be able to make long drifts and hook up fish after fish was very nice. The second best thing was going back on Sunday and doing the same thing all over again. So, is there a moral to the story? (For some odd reason I also know that one is not supposed to start a sentence with the word so but I do anyway.) Perhaps. Find and fish different areas and places that you have never really tried before. I remember reading an OTW article from one of the editors earlier this season that said we should try different areas and that the areas with 12-24 boats all arund trolling and fishing this way and that won't hold all that many fish anyway and this is something I believe in whole heartedly as I can't stand to be a part of the wild-west of fishing, it reminds me of the parking lot at the snowmobile parking areas in NH where everyone is circling on their sleds and people are racing here there and everywhere, doing everything but shooting guns overhead. So I do what OTW says and, boy, would you belive it, it works!
I will agree with the many who feel like there are more sandeels and squid and silversides in the water than there have been in a long time because the fishing this season, at least from a boat, has been the best I've seen and everyone I fish with, which is mainly my Dad, agrees that this season has been the best in a long time, then again, getting a new boat and catching ANY fish on it would be good, but being able to catch a lot every time out in a new boat is just a total bonus. And for us/my family, we have upped our size limits considerably for everything we like to catch, which is everything because we like to catch everything, if fluke is at 17.5, which it is here in MA, we have been going with 19-20" because we are so happy to see so many over 17.5" and hardly anyone fishing where we fish, as we know how precious all these fish are and how lucky we are to be able to catch, so we take what we need and throw the rest back. Anyhow, these are Bassyius Maximus' thoughts for this day, July 23, 2007. Enjoy.
Oh yeah, here are is an image from a doubleheader we had, just ripped and iced. The sashimi we sliced up, dipped in soy and chili pepper was, admittedly, incredible, and this is coming from a non-fish eater. I just like to catch them but don't really like to eat them. This is BM . . . . out.
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a184/thundra04struck/Medoublebones.jpg
I usually go with deeper diving, smaller, but a bit heavier swimming lures this time of year in the rips, however, as the store was out of the much more expensive lures I usually find myself thinking I need to go with, I bought a bunch of the cheapest deep-diving lures I could find and boy did they work. Now, just like most of you all, I keep in tune with all the scientific research that is put out in the magazines and that is reported online regarding colors and lure shapes and movement through the water, and believe that as long as the lure vibrates through the water and moves and wiggles from side to side like most lures do, and if the fish are there and hungry, they will eat the lure. I'm thankful that long ago I realized this so that I don't think that I need every single kind of lure shape, weight, color, pattern and so on and need to buy a lure or two or 10 every time I set foot in the tackle shop. I'm thankful that I can go in about every time to either get the bait that I cannot get myself or to reload on simple hooks, weights or swivels/terminal tackle, I am blessed in so many ways, I know. The tackle shop might not like me and but the freedom of going in and being able to walk past all the rows of parachutes, jigs, poppers, swimmers, metals, etc., is very liberating and feels good. For there will be multitudes of those for whom my words of nonsense will never reach and the lures will keep flying off the shelf but like I know, give me a wallet (with cash and A good credit card), keys (to something with an engine) and life is good.
So of course, bluefish will hit the "Bart-Simpson" lure I have, you know, the one with Bart Simpson, or any of the Simpson's characters with treble hooks in it that I got for a X-mas present from someone that must have passed it on from a re-gift, that and the fish will eat the Budweiser can with treble hooks in it, yes, they all catch the bluefish so I know that about anything will work for those critters which most despise. What surprised me though, and all of us, were the Bonito that were in this particular rip, surprising in that it is still July and that they were willing to eat any of the lures we were using that day, thus, putting to rest, at least for me, that I need to use the expensive $8+ lures that I used to use in the fancy packages to get these fish to eat. Plus it was nice having the N-NE wind at our backs and with tide against the wind and a very well defined rip-line, to be able to make long drifts and hook up fish after fish was very nice. The second best thing was going back on Sunday and doing the same thing all over again. So, is there a moral to the story? (For some odd reason I also know that one is not supposed to start a sentence with the word so but I do anyway.) Perhaps. Find and fish different areas and places that you have never really tried before. I remember reading an OTW article from one of the editors earlier this season that said we should try different areas and that the areas with 12-24 boats all arund trolling and fishing this way and that won't hold all that many fish anyway and this is something I believe in whole heartedly as I can't stand to be a part of the wild-west of fishing, it reminds me of the parking lot at the snowmobile parking areas in NH where everyone is circling on their sleds and people are racing here there and everywhere, doing everything but shooting guns overhead. So I do what OTW says and, boy, would you belive it, it works!
I will agree with the many who feel like there are more sandeels and squid and silversides in the water than there have been in a long time because the fishing this season, at least from a boat, has been the best I've seen and everyone I fish with, which is mainly my Dad, agrees that this season has been the best in a long time, then again, getting a new boat and catching ANY fish on it would be good, but being able to catch a lot every time out in a new boat is just a total bonus. And for us/my family, we have upped our size limits considerably for everything we like to catch, which is everything because we like to catch everything, if fluke is at 17.5, which it is here in MA, we have been going with 19-20" because we are so happy to see so many over 17.5" and hardly anyone fishing where we fish, as we know how precious all these fish are and how lucky we are to be able to catch, so we take what we need and throw the rest back. Anyhow, these are Bassyius Maximus' thoughts for this day, July 23, 2007. Enjoy.
Oh yeah, here are is an image from a doubleheader we had, just ripped and iced. The sashimi we sliced up, dipped in soy and chili pepper was, admittedly, incredible, and this is coming from a non-fish eater. I just like to catch them but don't really like to eat them. This is BM . . . . out.
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a184/thundra04struck/Medoublebones.jpg