WED, Oct 21, 2012

night bass, about 20"

blue on tube-n-worm (one of 6 landed)

So I went out to the Sedges.  Right away I was getting hits trolling Tube-n-worm to the right of the launch, but decided to head out to snake ditch anyway.  There were two other kayak fishermen leaving.  They were admiring the ocean sun fish. They said that action had been slow.  That didn't bother me.  I've heard that before.  I was planning on fishing at night anyway.

bass on Tube-n-worm

I had plenty of short bass and blues, and essentially left them biting.  The fish were all feeding in the rips at night.  Bluefish feeding at night are funny, because they have terrible night vision, so they basically chomp at anything, and miss their target quite often.






At the end of the night, around ten, I had a pretty massive hook-up, that I was confident was a keeper striped bass.  I gave it a couple of runs, and lost it in a rip because it was under my boat, and my boat had lodged in the bank.  I gave it another half hour after that, then left fairly satisfied.

ocean sunfish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_sunfish)

teasers I tied (mostly now destroyed by bluefish)