Yesterday was not a good fishing day for me. I moved around a lot along the south shore in the daytime and had little success finding anything other than bait. The old skunk was staring me in the face until the end of the day when I managed to nail three shad and a small schoolie just before and at dark. However, I had one more ace in the hole as I had my ultralight gear stowed in the back of my truck and tailor made for nights like this when I'm looking for more action. I decided to hit some of my quiet backwater spots in which the ultralight gear had proved so effective in the past. These are places with calm water in which small schoolies love to feed after dark. I suspect they are feeding on shrimp since I rarely see baitfish in these spots. My five foot trout rod with a small Okuma reel with just six pound test mono was delivering 1/8 oz. round head bucktail jigs. It worked to a charm as I caught 7 schoolies in just an hour after dark in one of these quiet spots. Had I been using a regular surf rod and bigger jigs, I guarantee I would have caught nothing. As has happened so many times in the past, the ultralight gear comes through once again.
Yesterday was not a good fishing day for me. I moved around a lot along the south shore in the daytime and had little success finding anything other than bait. The old skunk was staring me in the face until the end of the day when I managed to nail three shad and a small schoolie just before and at dark. However, I had one more ace in the hole as I had my ultralight gear stowed in the back of my truck and tailor made for nights like this when I'm looking for more action. I decided to hit some of my quiet backwater spots in which the ultralight gear had proved so effective in the past. These are places with calm water in which small schoolies love to feed after dark. I suspect they are feeding on shrimp since I rarely see baitfish in these spots. My five foot trout rod with a small Okuma reel with just six pound test mono was delivering 1/8 oz. round head bucktail jigs. It worked to a charm as I caught 7 schoolies in just an hour after dark in one of these quiet spots. Had I been using a regular surf rod and bigger jigs, I guarantee I would have caught nothing. As has happened so many times in the past, the ultralight gear comes through once again.