Hi folks. I rarely post on here but thought I would share a little.
We own a place on HHI so I fish there quite a bit. I do a lot of surf fishing due to family commitments but do occasionally break away for a day to fish the marsh. I went twice last week. I caught nothing but sharks on the first outing and actually saw the biggest shark I’ve ever seen in the marsh. It was very conservatively 6+ feet.
The second trip started poorly with lots more small sharks but ended well with 3 specks.
Initially, I was using finger mullet (live) as that’s what I was able to catch in the cast net. I had planned to set a homemade trap for mud minnows but didn’t have time and the tide was wrong where I had access. On the second day, I quit to change locations and bought some mud minnows.
It made all the difference. The sharks ignored the mud minnows but the trout loved them. I floated them under a popping cork off a point. It was a rising tide into a slack tide.
I hope that helps someone.
Erik