Fished from 11am to 5pm for just 2 blues. I was mostly fishing mullet chunks. It was either getting picked apart or nothing would touch it. Got the blues on cut shrimp and had many bait stealers. Non stop machine gun type hits but ver very small. I was using a 1/0 J hook and managed the 2 blues as well as something smaller I can not ID. Check out the pic. I even tried using a shrimp under a popping cork around a jetty on the outgoing. Gave it all I had. The water has cooled off a lot from earlier in the month. The first 2 weeks of November I got 3 nice bulls so I am not complaining.
1/0 hook…go smaller, #2 j-hook is my go to on the small set-ups. Sometimes I will drop down to a #4.
If I had some smaller hooks I could have caught more instead of feeding the fish. In my opinion I am not interested in them micro fish. Does anyone have any idea what that second fish is? I am gonna start hitting the creeks on my paddle board for some reds n trout.
I believe that 2nd fish is a Silver Perch. It’s a true bait stealer.
Jack Taylor
Yep, silver perch. They seem to school up near structure and will pick you clean. I was out last week and kept loosing bait so i threw a tiny hook on to see what it was and sure enough, that’s what I caught.
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Originally posted by surfonensb
If I had some smaller hooks I could have caught more instead of feeding the fish. In my opinion I am not interested in them micro fish.
So small hooks = micro fish…? You sure about that? My opinion? Small hooks = MORE fish…always. I would much rather CATCH 100 “micro fish” than “feed” those same fish and do nothing but re-bait hooks all day.
Here is a “NOT SO MICRO FISH” caught on a micro fish hook.
#2 j-hook, 15# mono
i figured someone would get get salty over my comment. just my opinion. I am not gonna stand around all day for silver perch and snapper blues. just saying. nice looking red. love them red fish.