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Originally Posted by BigFish
....Personally I am finding the surf fishing damn slow and I attribute it to the same thing we have seen for the past 2-3 seasons......lots of big bait and the fish are staying with it off shore and out in the bays and harbors not really venturing into the surf to scavenge for a meal....?
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Ditto. I agree.
I was out this past Friday night. My Danny plug was swimming so well and looked so tasty...that I almost took a bite!! Nada. I tied on a small Rapala swimmer in a mackerel pattern. Nada. When the back stared to hurt, I switched to bait--- I tossed FRESH herring. Nada. I dunked live sea worms. Nada. The first hand reports that I got that night from the boatman was "..we are killing on live mackerel and mackerel chunks".
That said, I had a great night. Why? Because I got to fish spots I have never fished before and all by my self! The solitude was great. Life is so full of "noise" some times and it's great just to get away. I also had a great time casting with my new Abu 7000 and the St. Croix casting rod that I had just picked up at "my" tackle shop. So for me, the fishing may be slow, but I am venturing into new territory in terms of hot spots and techniques, which keeps it interesting. Now if I can only figure out how to put some action into my lifeless needlefish or may be I will just pick up a pencil popper and learn to fish that instead. When the fishing gets slow, I change things up.
Tight lines.
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