Simply Making Bait - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

PescadorPete · 03-30-2010, 08:28 PM

I have had good luck lately with the the Black belt AJK-4 (available at Turners) and the Owner 5525-075 sabikis. If you fish in the morning, be out on the water before grey light. As soon as the light breaks, its like magic, the bait appears. Trust your instincts - this is the right spot I have selected - the bait will appear - be patient grasshopper (I'm not kidding). Drop the rig down at several depths until you feel the "raindrops", the bait pecking at the hooks. Stop and jig up and you will load it up. The kelp just past the buoys works but I usually boogie out to the the farther kelp before I make bait since that is where I fish. You can see them on the fish finder but I usually wait until I hear the rain on the surface and drop down there. The visibility is so good lately you can see the schools below the surface. I have been able to fill the tank on the first stop. That won't be the case later in the season when traditionally it becomes harder to find bait.

BigBalsa · 03-30-2010, 11:20 PM

Thanks everyone for sharing your expertise...

I think I was so excited to get to out to the big fish spots, and thought that making bait was like "pulling monkeys from a barrel" - both fun and easy - that I really did not leave my jig in the H2O long enough! Sent it down, reeled it up, nada. Paddled to a new spot, same thing. Before I knew it, everyone else is heading back to shores with their booty, and I am still trying to add to my one freaking lonely spanish in the tank.

And great tips on the chum and powerbait - I am definitely going to give them both a try!

Maybe now I can make enough to share...

03-30-2010, 11:20 PM	#2
BigBalsa Junior Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 28	Thanks to all Thanks everyone for sharing your expertise... I think I was so excited to get to out to the big fish spots, and thought that making bait was like "pulling monkeys from a barrel" - both fun and easy - that I really did not leave my jig in the H2O long enough! Sent it down, reeled it up, nada. Paddled to a new spot, same thing. Before I knew it, everyone else is heading back to shores with their booty, and I am still trying to add to my one freaking lonely spanish in the tank. And great tips on the chum and powerbait - I am definitely going to give them both a try! Maybe now I can make enough to share...

03-30-2010, 08:28 PM	#1
PescadorPete Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Leucadia, CA Posts: 261	I have had good luck lately with the the Black belt AJK-4 (available at Turners) and the Owner 5525-075 sabikis. If you fish in the morning, be out on the water before grey light. As soon as the light breaks, its like magic, the bait appears. Trust your instincts - this is the right spot I have selected - the bait will appear - be patient grasshopper (I'm not kidding). Drop the rig down at several depths until you feel the "raindrops", the bait pecking at the hooks. Stop and jig up and you will load it up. The kelp just past the buoys works but I usually boogie out to the the farther kelp before I make bait since that is where I fish. You can see them on the fish finder but I usually wait until I hear the rain on the surface and drop down there. The visibility is so good lately you can see the schools below the surface. I have been able to fill the tank on the first stop. That won't be the case later in the season when traditionally it becomes harder to find bait.