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fishing news

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

We took to the water again today, and I tried to catch larger fish rather than loading up on smaller ones as we had last time. A dozen small fish is a lot of cleaning!

But the bite was decidedly not on for most of the day. I was using large metal lures on a jigging road and reel, lures ranging from 120g to 180g. I managed to lose one to what felt like another shark: no firm bite up front, and then a strange reaction to being pulled up the water column: rather than struggle against me it seemed to be swimming in random directions. Whatever it was, it bit through 20# fluorocarbon, which would be a neat trick for anything we've encountered out there short of a shark.

The Boy loaded up with half a dozen mostly smaller fish, including a "golden threadfin bream", which is a sashimi fish.

I didn't land any yellowtail.

The result: I'm cleaning a dozen small fish once again. 8^)

[ edit 2022.01.10 - photos! ]