Fletcher Fishing

posted by John on Jun 14

After the morning chores, and cleaning the boat, I decided to test the new knots I tied. Fish caught, knots adjusted, hate what  I tried.

The tide was moving fast. I slowed down to adjust my equipment and started marking fish.  Threw a jig with a sluggo, and came up blue on the first cast. The first fish over the gunnel was a 30″, 8lb blue, mean as can be.  I almost wanted to keep his butt just to make sure he did not destroy any more baits, but I was feeling merciful and he went back to the deep.

I was heading for ‘Damiens Pride’, but I spied a whole lot of Striped Bass pushing water and jumping for bait. I stopped and set up a drift right past them. I tried a green needlefish, and the bass just scattered. I tried a mackerel popper, same effect. The fish were moving slower than the drift, so I had to reset. I tried a mambo minnow, shallow dive, and blam! Every cast, a beefy bass. The two I measured were 40″ and 38″, one was really heavy. I caught 20-25 fish on the mambo minnow, I had to retie the leader twice, because the bass’s sandpaper lips where shredding the 50lb leader. Here are the best pics.

I had not planned to take a fish, but this one became dinner due to excessive bleeding. After this fish, I removed the center treble hook from the mambo minnow.

Nice Bass!

But wait! They get better.

And just when I thought I was catching the biggest bass out there. Look at this!

Wow!