"Trash or Treasure?" by Alexi

May 23rd 2016.

We're waiting for a solid "bass on bunker out front" bite to start (any day now...AHEM).  In the mean-time we fish when we can in the back.   I had the opportunity to take KGB for a trip to the Sedges and I took it, (he doesn't get to go out as frequently as he used to).  

It was a slow start to the day.

old anchor

It was spent casting around the sedges and admiring some detritus such as old anchors.

And collecting other detritus left along the sod-banks.

.....and so sometimes I thank the blue-fish gods for tearing it up.

fishing was slow, so I collected lures

stuff I found

The real centerpiece to this story is the strange popper in the middle.

It's a well constructed wire-thru home-made from a piece of a banister popper.  It is ridiculously hand painted.

this is the thing!

crazy home-made popper found on sod banks

Here it is in action:

The Popper had some good mojo

  I threw it on after finding the bluefish, mostly because it was the only popper that had single hooks instead of trebles.  I must have hooked into 20 blues with this thing, some of them felt like they were coming tight only to have the fish get off, or maybe they were just holding on to the wood and not really hooked?  Whatever it was, it worked enough times, and drew many more strikes than I expected.

solid Blue action for KGB

And so for about two hours we had a blast catching big blues on topwater.  Some were released, some were kept for the smoker.


And one was in the personal best category for KGB:

bounty

38" 16lbs kayak caught