After seeing a guy practically kill a schoolie when releasing it, well, then his buddy on the other side of me explains how he get all the big bass from shore. All the way up to 34 inches
... As he's talking, I see some water moving funny and I cast beyond it, work thru the ripple and I'm on. My little Stradic is protesting on a decent 8-9 # bluefish. Guys start dropping their tall-boys running towards me from both sides and all of the sudden, I have 4 lines criss-crossing my line with 2 plugs getting fouled. I tell the guys not to cast directly on top of me and they did it again anyway. The fish comes unstuck about 10 feet from shore and I was lucky to keep my plug (really lucky as the snap was all bent out of shape and had popped open holding the Gag's Popper). So I'm a little tweaked at this point, but hey, it's only bluefish, right?
Well now there are 6 guys fishing a 40 foot stretch of beach and the guys on the right are casting left and the guys on the left... For those that have fished Cotuit Flats in May, this is not the same thing. Sure the fishing is the same, maybe even better, but the comfort you have in the angler next to you is far better there than fishing in Yahoo Central. I feel comfortable taking ten of our guys here, nearly shoulder to shoulder in that same 40 feet than the 6 guys, of which only one other seemed to know a little about what to do across 400 feet.
So same conditions present itself, these guys are casting, I see some funny water, cast beyond and BANG I'm on again. Then BANG , the lines criss cross again like sappers on a minefield. A couple are winching in their plugs so fast smoke should be coming out of their reels. I told them to slow down so they wouldn't snag up my line and so they may actually get a fish...
Short story, 15 miutes 1 9# blue and one yahoo induced SDR. All between sunset and prime mosquito time... Still left with a grin on my face...
UGGHHHHH!!!!! Clammer, I hear ya brother!!!
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