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Originally Posted by fishchaser25
thanks for the report. why didn't you take the live squarts into the kelp for seabass instead of letting the macs shred them?
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I think it was most likely sand dabs shredded them, as the macks were coming in and out and they were not on the finder when I sent the squid down, and I only made two.
It's kind of a judgment call. My take is when you find the squid you fish the squid. If they had been thick the seabasss could of been on them as well as yellows.
Sometimes you find squid with nothing on them but my take is this time of year if they had been there in numbers the bigger fish would of likely been on them.
I had just got there, I knew there was squid right there cause I just caught them, had the dropper rigged and ready, and with all the life around, and what I saw on the meter, I figured I had a decent shot at good fish.
I brought one squid up, put it down on the dropper right away, had a good strike that I missed right off, made another one, put it down and that one got chewed off by a small fish probably a sand dab.
After that I couldn't get any more, but I had no way of knowing that when I got them. I mean we're talking a couple of minutes here.
I also was carrying three pounds of primo fresh dead on ice sitting in my bait tank.
In hind sight I probably could of taken the squid out of my bait tank, fired it up, put the live in the tank, taken that one squid to the kelp, with any others I made and then had a better chance at any fish I found there, but at the time it looked fishy, first thing in the morning and I did not know I was not going to be able to get more.
Hell I'd probably do it again anyway. Like I said my take is to fish the squid when they are there, right away, and then make decisions based on what you catch.
I mean it's not like a I bought a scoop then wasted it feeding a mackerel bite.
Jim