I arrived at the landing about 6am to watch the sun rise and fish for a little bit. Beautiful morning with a little rain scare and a few drops felt. Fished the out going until dead low. Caught alot of menhadden in the morning but before I set up to fish they all died. Got some mud minnows too to try for the flounder which died as well. So going to a spot I wanted to try I saw all these birds diving and flippers flippin. I figured new bait would be what was needed. Threw the net and caught a few dozen large mullet. Cut them up and fished one dock ive wanted to try for a while. Nailed a good dozen reds packed up and headed to IOP for a sandwich. Fat daddys were on yesterday for sure. Alot of fun out there. Cut mullet is the ticket right now. One of the reds was a 32 inch fat fish. FUN FUN FUN
I think my bait died because of the lack of oxygen in the water from the lack of rain. My livewell does good but I didnt run it constantly.
“My fish served a whole lunchon. Your fish look like a munchkin”
JUst curious how deep it was were you were fishing. I hear people talking about reds retreating already to the deeper holes from the heat, but I am still catching them fairly shallow.
I usually look happier than that when I catch fish
j/k - nice fish…
Also, I would think rain water would be holding about as much O2 as is possible. Instead of blowing bubbles through the water, rain is the reverse… little balls of water falling through lots of air.
How many menhaden did you have in the live well? They like/require a lot of water and water movement/exchange. They are much more fragile than something like mud minnows or mullet (both of which tolerate lot O2 levels well).
I was fishing in 2-10 feet off a dock. I would say salt water with high salinity would have lower oxygen molecules because the NaCl dilutes out the H2O thus causing higher salinity. I have never had bait fish die that fast. I actually can keep my hadden alive pretty much all day as I did a few weekends ago. No higher numbers in the livewell than normal. My question is how the hell did the mud minnows die. I have never had a mud minnow die. HAHA It was bizarre.
“My fish served a whole lunchon. Your fish look like a munchkin”
It takes a lot to kill a mud minnow. Are you sure you didn’t use some sort of cleaning compound inside your live well? Did you have them in the same water as the haddens?
Also, +1 on the ice. I’ve kept shrimp alive all day without an aerator by keeping them in icy water. Their bodies slow way down and use very little oxygen, but they revive when they warm up.
Stalking do it … I never put anything in my livewell to clean it. I always just wipe it down. Plus I was running water in it all morning before I got the bait. Thanks for the advice.
“My fish served a whole lunchon. Your fish look like a munchkin”
I do work with DaMoons. Please explain the your comment or explaination to my question/problem? My thoughts again, evaporation of water causes higher concentration of salt increasing salinity thus decreasing oxygen content for inshore waters. Just a thought. Theoretically it makes sense. Upon research I did find this is a fact. http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/water/salinity1.htm im just sayin
“My fish served a whole lunchon. Your fish look like a munchkin”
