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Steven and I decided to hook up and give the pier a good try today. Miss Pam and I picked him up at his house yesterday afternoon and took him to our new Chinese buffet that just opened up about 5 or 6 weeks ago. I had no idea that kid could pack away the chow like that. Grandma and Grandpa were kinda wonderin' if he ever got anything to eat at home!?!
We had checked the condition predictions for today and we were both fairly excite about out prospects. We got home from eating and made up a few leaders and played a game of clue and then we decided to turn in early and get as much sleep as we could. I got up at 4 when the alarm went off and he was already up.
"What time'd you wake up?" He looked pitiful. Told me he'd been awake since 1:30. Mostly playin' with Frito and reading the Rudy Grigar book Plugger that I have on loan from Hooked-Up.
So we poked a couple of eggs and waffles down our necks and hit the road. This was not a typical day for us as we usually experience the pier. Oh yeah, we catch a few but today was different. Lots different. One thing is that I was so busy I scarcely had time to take any pics. These two I just had to make time to grab. I was lining up a shot of a spectacular sunrise when Steven sings out..."FISH ON!" He wasn't kiddin' neither. It was a nice Spanish mackerel about 20 inches long. By the time I got him netted and on the pier and Steven fishing again the moment was lost.
We spent the next 5 hours catching macs. We busted a LOT of tackle and I'm down to one rattlin' cork now. We both got cut of numerous time as the water was full of these toothy critters. We were fishing live shrimp on black plastic coated steel leaders under those orange/green rattlin' corks. But the macs were swimming aournd choppin' off everyones corks above the steel leader.
We both hooked too many fish to count. We kept a single limit of fish in the 20 inch range and put back a few short fish. But I spent a lot of time re-rigging and, especially there at the last, re inventing our fishing rigs. Out of corks, out of leaders. out of the small egg-sinkers. Out of hooks. I will need to make a run to Academy before I can front another trip like that one.
Saw a couple of guys throw spoons but I never saw one make it back up on the pier. It was an action packed morning. Saw a couple of nice ones caught that might have gone up to 28" or so. Basically every one that was fishing live shrimp under a cork of some kind was getting the action. But everyone was getting cut off....a LOT.
So it was a grand morning on the pier. Steven got to chalk up another species today as this was his first experience with Spanish mackerel. Oh, btw, we both got slammed by something that we never got a chance to see. We never had a chance. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPPPPPP - POW!! And his BillyStiX is by now a seasoned veteran!
1. One of Stevens macs
2, Here he was laughing at several people fishing around us that had been "chopped off". About 10 seconds after I took that pic HE got chopped off as well. He didn't think that was very funny though.
We had checked the condition predictions for today and we were both fairly excite about out prospects. We got home from eating and made up a few leaders and played a game of clue and then we decided to turn in early and get as much sleep as we could. I got up at 4 when the alarm went off and he was already up.
"What time'd you wake up?" He looked pitiful. Told me he'd been awake since 1:30. Mostly playin' with Frito and reading the Rudy Grigar book Plugger that I have on loan from Hooked-Up.
So we poked a couple of eggs and waffles down our necks and hit the road. This was not a typical day for us as we usually experience the pier. Oh yeah, we catch a few but today was different. Lots different. One thing is that I was so busy I scarcely had time to take any pics. These two I just had to make time to grab. I was lining up a shot of a spectacular sunrise when Steven sings out..."FISH ON!" He wasn't kiddin' neither. It was a nice Spanish mackerel about 20 inches long. By the time I got him netted and on the pier and Steven fishing again the moment was lost.
We spent the next 5 hours catching macs. We busted a LOT of tackle and I'm down to one rattlin' cork now. We both got cut of numerous time as the water was full of these toothy critters. We were fishing live shrimp on black plastic coated steel leaders under those orange/green rattlin' corks. But the macs were swimming aournd choppin' off everyones corks above the steel leader.
We both hooked too many fish to count. We kept a single limit of fish in the 20 inch range and put back a few short fish. But I spent a lot of time re-rigging and, especially there at the last, re inventing our fishing rigs. Out of corks, out of leaders. out of the small egg-sinkers. Out of hooks. I will need to make a run to Academy before I can front another trip like that one.
Saw a couple of guys throw spoons but I never saw one make it back up on the pier. It was an action packed morning. Saw a couple of nice ones caught that might have gone up to 28" or so. Basically every one that was fishing live shrimp under a cork of some kind was getting the action. But everyone was getting cut off....a LOT.
So it was a grand morning on the pier. Steven got to chalk up another species today as this was his first experience with Spanish mackerel. Oh, btw, we both got slammed by something that we never got a chance to see. We never had a chance. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPPPPPP - POW!! And his BillyStiX is by now a seasoned veteran!
1. One of Stevens macs
2, Here he was laughing at several people fishing around us that had been "chopped off". About 10 seconds after I took that pic HE got chopped off as well. He didn't think that was very funny though.
