65 degrees, sunny (sun burnt) and 2-3 ft
With the great weather, we couldnt stay inshore so we made our way out to the CHS 60. Birds aplenty nailing bait at the top, so we trolled just to see, but got bored. Dropped to the bottom with cut squid and drifted 3 passes over the same area and couldnt keep the BSB’s out of the boat. Had something really heavy hook up, but no leader=no fish. Two of us pulled up at least 50 in less than 2 hours of drifting.
Two boats out there with us, any luck guys?
how much weight were you using?
We were using 2oz on a 3 way with about 2ft of line flying a bare hook or 1/4oz jighead with squid. Seemed like with the drift we had to keep dropping more line, but it was right after that drop that we would get the bite.
I am very new to this so any suggestions as far as rigs would be great. It was a blast pulling up all those fish, but I felt like we could have/ should have used something else to get a better variety and larger fish.
Any input?
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I honestly believe that you can’t catch anything on cut bait that you can’t catch just as good or better on a butterfly jig; and you will not catch nearly as many “small” BSB. Went out the the C-60 two weeks ago with one other person. He used cut squid and cigar minnows and I used a butterfly jig all day. We both caught probably 75 BSB but mine were consistantly larger and I caught the only two GAGS, and hooked a sea-monster that broke me off on 50# leader. NO baiting the hooks, no mess and fewer small fish.
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