08-08-2019, 10:45 PM
Ice_sled and I sailed out of Lincoln harbor yesterday morning in search of big bumper cats. We went out to 10 fow and started dragging a Santee-Cooper rig each tipped with chublets or white bass. On my other pole I had a firetiger flig and chublet. It wasn't long before I netted a cookie cutter and proceeded to catch two more in short order. This was odd because Ben usually way out-fishes me. I had a feeling that he would start catching and pass me by and that's just what happened. Every time I looked over his one rod was shaking again. On his other set-up he was trying a slip float and he never had any luck on that. The wind came up around 11 and the bite shut down. We went to the little bay south of the channel to see if the wind was better there. No dice. Then we crossed CDBRC and he recognized Ben. They had the same patterned we had but evidently caught a lot more fish. After that we had had enough and headed in around noon.
It was a nice day with overcast sky and not too much heat. I ended up catching seven cats, the largest a 27"er that we couldn't quite stretch to 27.5 to give me a little bump; Ben ended up with twice as many as I got. He boated a big-headed black 28-28.5 which of course didn't come close to giving him a bump. Wish I had caught it!
I had my first catches on a flig but had a hard time setting the hook on a few. Lost some on the circle hook, too.
Forgot to say that later in the day I baited up the flig with shrimp and worms. I got two bites but they quickly got off. The first time it stripped the worm even though it was higher up the hook. When I rebaited I put the worm below the shrimp. Repeat performance, but this time the shrimp was gone!
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It was a nice day with overcast sky and not too much heat. I ended up catching seven cats, the largest a 27"er that we couldn't quite stretch to 27.5 to give me a little bump; Ben ended up with twice as many as I got. He boated a big-headed black 28-28.5 which of course didn't come close to giving him a bump. Wish I had caught it!
I had my first catches on a flig but had a hard time setting the hook on a few. Lost some on the circle hook, too.
Forgot to say that later in the day I baited up the flig with shrimp and worms. I got two bites but they quickly got off. The first time it stripped the worm even though it was higher up the hook. When I rebaited I put the worm below the shrimp. Repeat performance, but this time the shrimp was gone!
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