Creepin’ while ya sleepin’

Well, I set out the other night with one thing in mind! Fish the outgoing tide well into the night in search of bigger fish, finally finding those slot-sized lunkers lurking along our coastline. As we all know by now, schoolies have ruled our waters since late April. We have all been patient reminding ourselves “any day now”, until those bigger fish arrive. Big fish are indeed here, just they are very difficult to fool at the moment and feeding during small windows of opportunity. The good push of larger fish still seem to be stacked up in the Buzz. I arrived at my spot around 8 o’clock with low tide scheduled for 930ish. There was a light SW wind and a nice sweep from left to right. I thought this was going to be the night! First and second casts I had blowups on my top water mack plug that I had turned in the off season. Good start, right? Well within the next half hour, I picked up a few small fish to 27 inches on a yozuri mag darter. The lights turned off, and I was hoping for some bigger fish to move in tight to the shoreline, looking for easy meal. Well, to my surprise, this was not the case. I picked up some more 27 inch fish on a white needle fish/teaser combo. before calling it a night.

Moral of the story here, the big fish CONTINUE to elude me in the surf. Just a matter of time before things turn on full throttle. For now, enjoy the fierce bite with schoolies and hopefully you are able to find some bigger fish. I’ll be back at it in the coming days, stay posted! Tight Lines