8-15: Canal

[bdowning]

Well there's some life out there although I had to move around to find it. Got half a dozen schoolies to 24-25 inches, all on sluggos although I'm sure bucktails would have worked fine. All on last of the west tide. Still no blues to speak of, all bass. Trying again tonight earlier in tide.

-bd

[BobG]

They were hitting bucktails just great(#$119), it was the 'hooking' part that was a bit tough. :rolleyes: It's so strange how some nights you get multiple crushing hits, and set up as fast as you can, and....nobody's home.
All I managed was one decent fish, ~35", despite a tide full of short hits.

[bdowning]

Same place, a little earlier in the W tide. About the same results, although I did get one about 34". You really have to work for these fish, they aren't coming easily. Sluggos seemed to outdo bucktails, at least for me. The keeper I got on an old Ledgerunner forktail bait. :cool:

-bd

[BobG]

Bill, I hate to tell you this buddy....

About 20 minutes after you left, I put on the new, double super secret bait I showed you earlier in the evening. All I can say is YOWZA!!!:brow:brow:brow
Obviously the bass had never seen that color before(#$119). It's been a long time since I've seen something received like that!
DJ came along shortly after, but the bite had already begun to slow.

Looks like it's back to the microwave.;)

[bdowning]

All I can say is, cutting an outing short to be awake for work on Monday sux! :rolleyes:

I guess I'd better start using that color! :eek:

-bd

[bdowning]

BobG, FYI, clean out your PM inbox, can't send msg. Meanwhile I PMed you on the other board.

Thanks,

-bd

[bb1]

I hear there was a bit of a blitz on the east end, maybe on macks.

[jsynnott]

they are most certainly macks, had one jump out at my feet while casting

[bdowning]

Not much doing for me last night other than one schoolie and lots of weeds. But I was not fishing the sweet spot of the W tide either, so it doesn't surprise me.

Macks huh? Looks like it's the late shift to dawn for me on Sunday :brow.

-bd

[BobG]

I had a decent outing, but I didn't get out until late, after 11. By then, most of the weed had cleared, and the tide had slowed to a fishable stage.
Jigs are 'yesterday's news'.:rolleyes: They ain't likin 'em no more. It's plastics these days.
I fished until 1:30, and from all the driving I did that day, I was dead on my feet, and skipped what was probably the best part of the tide.
The fishing was decent, with a steady pick of low keepers, up to 30".
I'm VERY impressed with the EPO presence this season.:brow You just never know when or where these guys will pop up these days (and nights:brow). I was checked out twice myself last night.

This is why night fishing is so intoxicating.:cool: Had an cool encounter with Mr Wily Coyote last night. Around 12:30 I decide to take a small keeper for dinner this week. I had just dispatched the fish, and was in the process of bleeding him, when I saw the unmistakable silhouette of a canine head, ears perked and erect outlined against the skyline. The coyote was just off the crest of the service road, not 20' from me, and must have stalked me (or the noise I made). We locked stares for a moment, up came his tail, and in an instant my univited, but totally cool guset was gone.;)

[bb1]

Most of the coyot's I have seen have been in the east end, cape side....saw one prancing over the Sag one night years ago too.

[Bob Parsons]

I stopped by the Sandwich basin about noon today. Across the water there was some serious bird action going on. One lone fisherman casting out. I watched closely with the binoculars and never saw him hook up. I think I saw a bluefish clear the water. I did not have a rod and suspected that by the time I went and got one and crossed over it would be done. Yup about 35 minutes later it was dying down.