After the morning chores, and cleaning the boat, I decided to test the new knots I tied. Fish caught, knots adjusted, hate what I tried.
The tide was moving fast. I slowed down to adjust my equipment and started marking fish. Threw a jig with a sluggo, and came up blue on the first cast. The first fish over the gunnel was a 30", 8lb blue, mean as can be. I almost wanted to keep his butt just to make sure he did not destroy any more baits, but I was feeling merciful and he went back to the deep.
I was heading for 'Damiens Pride', but I spied a whole lot of Striped Bass pushing water and jumping for bait. I stopped and set up a drift right past them. I tried a green needlefish, and the bass just scattered. I tried a mackerel popper, same effect. The fish were moving slower than the drift, so I had to reset a few times. I tried a mambo minnow, shallow dive, and blam! Every cast, a beefy bass. The two I measured were 40" and 38", one was really heavy. I caught 20-25 fish on the mambo minnow in 2.5 hours, I had to retie the leader twice, because the bass's sandpaper lips where shredding the 50lb leader. Here are the best pics.
After having a bass just swallow the double treble hooks, I removed the center treble. The bass went cuckoo for a mambo minnow
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