fishing but not catching
On sunday I packed michelle up and a couple of fishing rods and went to the usual spot. We left late and made a few stops so we got there fairly late. That is fine with me because I don't really enjoy being outside during the hottest part of the day. I drove along the intercoastal and found mud in all the usual places but this time I made a bad deicision and got stuck. I tried rocking my way out but all that did was pull my air deflector off the the bumper. We had to wait about 30 minutes for a truck wearing mud tires to come pull us out.
Fishing was slow. Finger mullet and cut bait was catching large gafftops and small sharks.
I put out a whole 8-10" live mullet hooked through the tail and got a really nice run but
the hook came out when I tightened the drag. Nearly the same thing happened last week.
I am wondering if I need to rig the big baits a little differently.
posted by brian | 1:05 PM
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Any permanent trouble with the air deflector? How did the wife handle the whole stuck in the mud episode.
I have been stuck worse, don't feel too bad.
Big baits may show better success if rigged with two hooks, one nose ring and the other through the tail. I have read posts that recommend holding the line between hooks to the body of the mullet with a rubber band
The air deflector is held on with about 20 push pins. I only recovered about 4 of them but I anticipate it will pop back on once I get some more push pins. I believe it is designed to be taken off if you anticipate needing the extra clearance.
Michelle was not very impressed with my driving. Seriously though, the top layer of mud was dry. It really didn't look that bad. You can see from the picture that the ground 10' in front of me was solid. Another thing to consider is that you can't really steer when you get into that slop. I got sucked into those ruts and then it was just a matter of trying to maintain forward momentum. I should have been going faster.
I think two hooks on a large bait is probably a good idea but I am starting to develop a theory about circle hooks and large baits. More on that later.
Having been there and done that I must say that I truly believe that there are very few if any situations where going faster ever does anything other than get you stuck in a bigger hole further from dry, solid ground.
Those push-in plastic pins are available from any auto parts place real cheap, it will probably be impossible to re-use most of the old ones since they tend to break.
I have heard that the gap between the point and shank of a circle hook can get clogged with large bait. I bet kahle hooks are better for big hunks of bait.
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