Shore Bonefish Action

[BatesBCheatin]

Shore Bonito off the bucket list. Guy I fished with got 3 today. Gorgeous fish. Might bring one home tomorrow should I be lucky enough again.

[PaulS]

Originally Posted by BatesBCheatin

Shore Bonito off the bucket list.

Nice!
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[BatesBCheatin]

Originally Posted by ProfessorM

Good for you. Congrats.
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Originally Posted by PaulS

Nice!
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Thanks. It's funny. A friend of mine got a little irked today when he couldn't reach some busting bluefish. This is even though he caught his first bonito and first albie from shore earlier. I told him not to be so freaking greedy! He wanted that shore slam and got the two tough ones out of the way pretty early. We joked about heading down to a place where we were pretty much guaranteed a 8" snapper and possibly short bass, but that would be the real cheap way to do it and since I was driving it wasn't happening even if he was serious.

I wasn't really concerned with the slam today. It was nice to get into some funny fish that weren't nearly as finicky as they have been the last few weeks. Law of averages I guess. Maybe weather related? They are still a pain in the ass though.

[Swimmer]

Originally Posted by BatesBCheatin

Thanks. It's funny. A friend of mine got a little irked today when he couldn't reach some busting bluefish. This is even though he caught his first bonito and first albie from shore earlier. I told him not to be so freaking greedy! He wanted that shore slam and got the two tough ones out of the way pretty early. We joked about heading down to a place where we were pretty much guaranteed a 8" snapper and possibly short bass, but that would be the real cheap way to do it and since I was driving it wasn't happening even if he was serious.

I wasn't really concerned with the slam today. It was nice to get into some funny fish that weren't nearly as finicky as they have been the last few weeks. Law of averages I guess. Maybe weather related? They are still a pain in the ass though.

You need my teaser rigs. Last time I bothered counting the first 17 of 25 albies I caught a few years ago was on a teaser.
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[BatesBCheatin]

Originally Posted by Swimmer

You need my teaser rigs. Last time I bothered counting the first 17 of 25 albies I caught a few years ago was on a teaser.
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Not sure what your teaser rigs consist of, but yesterday if we had any type of fly in front of our metal they wouldn't take it. First time I've seen that. Only very small metal of certain colors were working. Maybe a mini fly would have?

Bonito seem to be much less finicky than Albies from what I've seen in my short funny fish career. Got one on a 1 oz epoxy y'day but Albies were not interested even though they were all over in the early AM.

Did I mention these fish are a pain in the ass? Fun as all hell tho.

Originally Posted by blondterror

I got an 8 lb albie today at the Cape Poge guy from shore... my first shore albie... only 8 lbs so I did not keep it... got it on a Hogy epoxy

Yes, congrats. Can't catch those Alberts on anything but small stuff so far.