Being boatless, I'm taking the offers as the come in and making the best of my fishing situation opportunities. The past two weekends have found me down P-town at the race by boat, first in a 30 foot Grady and this past weekend in a 40 foot Cabo. Well the wire rods came out on arrival both trips and I tried it the first weekend for about 10 minutes and quickly reeled in and said screw that. Picked up my 7 foot conventional, paired with a new Abu with about 275 yards of braid, tied on a 4 oz leadhead and 9" rubber and proceeded to catch fish. The biggest (close to 30 lbs) fish of the day, came on a half piece of a 6" half jerk I had tied on a 1/2 oz Kalin jighead, as we were hitting some blues for fun. A blue bit it in half and as we had been marking on the bottom, I dropped that puppy to the bottom figuring what the hell, one jig and bang. Talk about a fun battle on a 7 foot spinning rod with Stradic 5000 and braid, try a 30 lber in a ripping current at the race.
Yesterday it was similar in the Cabo, but I talked them into some rubber madness early on, as we noticed fish tight to the bottom and the wire wasn't really producing. I knew from my winter fishing those marks were decent sized fish. On a footnote, the $7,000 fish finder on that Cabo made me wet myself several times
. I took a page out of my winter fishing and we idled up current (wind/tide) and then drifted back with 3/4 oz Kalin Ulitmate Jig Heads tipped with 6" half jerks. We put 6 in the well quickly to salvage the day, a couple close to 30 lbs and the rest high teens and 20's. Man I'd have had some fun in my boat over there, who needs freeking wire and bucktails. All that work, some people need to expand their horizons, there are a lot more fun ways to put fish in the boat and on gear you can actually feel the fish with.
Lighten up boys, braid, rubber, control your drift rate and you don't need no freekin wire.
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