The Bass Slam Plus KenT Fishing (11/27)

[Latimeria]

I grabbed my big plugging rod armed with a 7 inch storm swimbait and was determined to catch a big flatty.  The tide was high, so I ran to the rocks to give it a look see.  What I saw was a flotilla of boats shooting out the inlet!  I swear 50 must have launched at the same time and everyone was jockeying for position to get outside the inlet first.



I cast the big swimbait around for a few hours and finally got slammed followed by a hard 1-2 second run!  Then nothing... I'm not sure if a bat ran into it, or it was a real gamefish, but it had some power and slammed the swimbait.  There were no telltale marks on the bait, so I just kept slinging it.



I switched over to the bass stick and finally found a willing participant.



I had some clam guts that I brought from the big Pismo's I got a few weeks ago and decided to critter fish, KenT style.  Well not really as I don't own hooks that small even for my trout gear!  lol
It was wide open critter fishing.  Ended up with 10 bass and the bass slam....

I got a few turd rollers, but a lot more calico.





There were monster garibaldi everywhere, but none wanted to take the bait.  I did catch a dozen of these small blue-eyed beauties though.  Opal Eyes were everywhere!



It was a bummer that I didn't get any sculpin or weird rock critters, but I did feel accomplished for the day.

Thanks for reading and I have to post something as there are no big fish to be found anywhere.  I'll take whatever I could get!  LOL

Until next tide!

[sasquatch]

Thought you were fishing somewhere else. The boats were probably th BD halibut tourney.

[Eric H]

Must have been cool to see all the fishin boats jammin out the bay.

Nice bass slam.

Love catchin them on plastics

[Chris]

Is the squid bed back off the pier? Looks like someone spilled the beans on a good WSB or yellow bite

[Latimeria]

Is the squid bed back off the pier? Looks like someone spilled the beans on a good WSB or yellow bite

I have no working boat to tell you either way, but I heard the squid were back so it's a good possibility.

[Tim524]

Nice variety of players, hope the Boma gets revived 

[BenCantrell]

That's some good microfishing there Tom.

[spideyjg]

Picked up a 16 foot telescoping rod to do microfishing on the jetties. Gets distance to pullthem away from the rocks.

Bad weather and food poisioning have knocked me out for a while though.

[Eric H]

Picked up a 16 foot telescoping rod to do microfishing on the jetties. Gets distance to pullthem away from the rocks.

Bad weather and food poisioning have knocked me out for a while though.

Jim it's more about putting pressure on them to keep em out the rocks rather than the length of the rod

[sasquatch]

Picked up a 16 foot telescoping rod to do microfishing on the jetties. Gets distance to pullthem away from the rocks.

Bad weather and food poisioning have knocked me out for a while though.

Jim it's more about putting pressure on them to keep em out the rocks rather than the length of the rod

So, if I understand you correctly, it's not about how long the rod is, but how you use it?

[spideyjg]

I've lost lots of gear when they run under stuff. This should take care of that. Also will be good for catfish bait making catching sunfish/bluegill in weedy stuff that cannot be cast to.

Jim

[vdisney]

Love the wrap on the rod Tom, very cool indeed

[Pinoyfisher]

Love fishing the jetty. You need some market shrimp.

[LONGCAST JOE]

Picked up a 16 foot telescoping rod to do microfishing on the jetties. Gets distance to pullthem away from the rocks.

Bad weather and food poisioning have knocked me out for a while though.

Jim it's more about putting pressure on them to keep em out the rocks rather than the length of the rod

If microfishing wouldn't it stand to reason all that would be needed is micropressure?  ...

Jim, the same thing must have caught our eye, but I opted for the 24'er. Not sure what I'm going to use for yet, maybe a buggywhip 

[spideyjg]

Jim it's more about putting pressure on them to keep em out the rocks rather than the length of the rod

If microfishing wouldn't it stand to reason all that would be needed is micropressure?  ...

Jim, the same thing must have caught our eye, but I opted for the 24'er. Not sure what I'm going to use for yet, maybe a buggywhip 
[/quote]

Didn't see a 24foot. It is about pressure out away from the rocks. Some [laces it seems ther is an overhang. Tehy go under that or you bait gets bit under there and you can't drag 'em straight up out from underneath. However a long rod to drag them away than up works for some hard core jetty guys.

I want opaleyes and other small fish as catfish bait also. Any dead ocean fish is an allowable catfish bait.

Jim