Wednesday, January 2, 2013

CNS Surf Fishing Lot #4

Lately I've been reading a few surf reports coming out of CNS and liking what I see. Pomps are still hitting, along with the usual whiting and blues. Skates, stingrays, occassional jack and shark in the mix...sounds pretty exciting right! So instead of hitting the usual inshore spots, I switched it up to surf rigs and surf gear.
I still had some leftover frozen clam so I set that aside. Also grabbed a bag of frozen shrimp. Remember 38 Live was out of live shrimp yesterday? Well today they were out of medium shrimp, so I had to buy the small shrimp. Most of the small shrimp were pretty worthless. It didn't look like 3 dozen either. I checked to see if they had any frozen sandfleas, of course not. Bah, not happy with 38 Live Bait lately.
I remembered there was a baitshop not far from the entrance to CNS. I've never been there so decided to check it out for sandfleas. This place is called End of the Line, they sell LIVE sandfleas $4 a dozen. Expensive yes, but worth it. It definitly looked like the guy hooked me up with more than 2 dozen too. The fleas were big and very active. I will definitly be back to this shop in the future.

Parked at lot 4 to find alot of fishermen. I did find one spot away from everyone else. Some bites here and there, but only on the shrimp. First fish was a small blue that hit my shrimp on the surface right after casting. Back in the water little guy.

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Fished for awhile, checking baits here and there. Nothing really going on. I was walking to my leftside pole and just about to grab it to check the bait, then it starts peeling out. Right place at the right time, quickly got the rod in my hands and knew it was fish on. Pulled in my first keeper Pompano 13" to the fork of tail. This one was caught on clam pretty close to the beach.

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Some more time passed, few nibbles here and there. Ending up losing one 2oz weight when my line snapped during a cast...so I downsized to just two rods. One was working sand fleas and the other with shrimp. Shrimp wasn't getting very many bites at this point, but all of a sudden the sandfleas were getting chewed by whiting. I caught 6 whiting all on sandfleas, kept 3 of the bigger ones for the cooler. Biggest whiting was 15.5" long caught by Cody!

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