Redneck Fishin' ...

This one is MUCH overdue, but here goes anyway ... 

(The original date for this was 2017.09.11)

Sunday, drove my wife to work, and headed out to a spot I haven't been in a while. Got there about 10.00. Got out on to the rocks and set up my Yamaga and Twin Power, line is Sunline HG-PE 0.4, leader Tict 1.5 (7lb), on the end a 5.3g bullet sinker, green glass bead, Tict DF Hook M size and a Gulp Okiami glow colour 2".

Few casts out, not much action, but eventually I hooked onto this little fella here ...

After some casts but no response I decided to move down the road a bit and try another spot.  On my way back, driving down the damn narrow road, I spotted a few lure fishers with a nice sized grouper.  I had that spot on my mind already and so I thought might as well.  Same set up, but with an Ecogear Bug Ant orange.  A few casts and a few misses later, I finally hooked into something decent.  It was a scorpion, after that I managed another one.

Some time passed with not much going on.  Moved on again, hitting the docks this time.  Got out the Gekka with Caldia 2000.  Drop shot this time, size 7 hook with a 5.3g weight on the bottom.  Managed to get a new species, quite small and unidentifiable, unfortunately I managed to unhook it and drop it back into the sea without taking a picture, now I'll never know.  After this, I headed to the near by tackle shop and got some more Gulp, as I had ran out. 

From the tackle shop I had one place in mind but on the way, a little spot caught my attention out the corner of my eye and I felt I needed to stop. 

Back on the Yamaga, first cast out was some tugs on the line but no hook up.  I was still using Tict M size DF hooks, with Gulp okiami glow.  Eventually managed some puffers, annoying little buggers but quite the fighters.  And after that it came, a fish a chuck. Only little ones, but still on the light gear quite some fun. 

That's what I love about LRFing, even tiddlers are sport!  After about an hour, hour-and-half a friend called me and said we should meet up at the bar down the road, I figured it was time to go.  Was driving so a  no go on a beer or two but I did have some very nice jerk chicken.  I was happy both in fish and in stomach, but I got back home to this ...

Golden Week Adventure

Over Golden Week went out for a day of fishing. I dropped my wife off at work and headed to my first mark. I had planned my adventure the night before (thanks google maps!) 

Got to the first mark at about 7.00, rigged up my gekkabijin/caldia kit with a 2g Ecogear shirasu JH, opened the trusty Gulp container looking for some baby sardine 2" okiami glow but found a Tict gyopin 1.7" and figured I'd go with that. Saw some rocks and weeds in the water out ahead of me and figured it was a good spot, threw out and I was right! Bites right on the first cast but no hook ups. Anyway, kept trying and after a few misses I hooked into this little bugger here 

after him I was getting one after another for a good while. 

I had about 20 of them by the end in various sizes, but not much more 15cm. It was fun and time to move onto the next mark. 

Here, last year I had caught a nice sized grouper. Wanting the same I got out the Bluecurrent and Twinpower. Rigged up with a Texas rig, 5.3 bullet sinker, glass bead and Tick DF offset hook, M size with an Ecogear Rockmax 3". No luck, so after a while I figured I'd head onto the the next mark.

This was the same place from my previous report but at a higher tide. This produced a few snags and subsequent reties and frustration but eventually I got another scorpion (no pics, sorry). After a lull period figured I'd head to the next place, decided to skip point C and headed for point D as it was high tide and I had luck there before.

On the way stopped by a tackle shop and got myself some goodies (I had to, no other choice!)

These are photos from before, but either way this is where I ended up

No luck here again. After some time, I headed to the harbour near there, but again no luck. It was very windy and difficult to cast out a few grams of anything. Also, this is where I lost my brand new Tick mini caro in the damn rocks! Old folks here were fishing sabiki with floats on bait, catching aji one after another, so I changed styles wanting the same. But with what I had on hand I could only rig up a shoddy set up which produced no results. So after some time I headed home. 

It was a good overall. But I was ready to crack a cold one and crash!