LJ this afternoon

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Originally Posted by icelogger

Yeah sabiki fishing for bait is not easy. I found Greens, blues, and browns all over the place. I chumed a lot and even put chunks of frozen dines on each sabiki hook. I saw big greenbacks but they wouldn't hit the sabiki. I managed one small blue and silver unknown bait in a half hour. I put it on and lost it on the first cast. Was running out of daylight so i ended up fishing yo yo and surface irons. Are there other ways to catch bait?

I found a huge feeding frenzy out there. It was cool to see. I threw everything I had in the middle of it and only managed a 15" calico on a surface iron. It was humbling to only catch one fish. What are signs of yellow tails in the area?

I trolled a surface iron on the way in and caught a 20" cuda.

Headed back out there tomorrow around 2pm if anybody wants to join.

We caught a bunch of greenbacks and spaniards the others day just slowtrolling a sabiki with a decent sized sinker on it while were trolling 2 macks behind it. I was in a 14 foot aluminum boat with 15hp so this might not be as feasible on a yak. Once you get one of them theres always more in the area.

[icelogger]

Thanks for the info. Mike, that is great info. I really like surface fishing too. I would rather cast lures all day if I knew what the right lure for that day is and what predator fish are chasing baitfish. I was able to catch bait for the first time. They were all spanish macs but it was good experience. The deck gets crazy with 4 macs going nuts flopping around. The new x factor bait tank solved this mayhem. I put all the macs in the bait tank to chill them out and unhooked each one.

Thank you Edward for the bait fishing pointers and the free squid out on the water. And thanks Robby for teaching some basics of ocean fishing at the launch.

Psyched to get out on the water again and try some new techniques