Fishing

We will start with the bait that I was using, the natural colored Berkley Gulp. From the very first cast the Gulp started taking small pecks. Working the bait in an upward and sideways motion, every time I feel contact. After 2-3 jerks of the bait, I have a fish on. It's a decent size seabass. Two casts later, I catch an undersized cobia. Then throughout the day I caught my limit in keeper trout, keeper Spanish mackeral, 1King Mackeral 34in(mono leader), 4 grunts,blue runners, ladyfish, pinfish, tons of small/keeper seabass, and lizard fish. The hits and bite were consistant throughout the trip and I caught enough keeper fish to feed a small army.

My fishing buddy was using the gold DOA with the glitter throughout. It also had the rattler and to get some scent he tips the bait with fishbites. His day started slow with few bites, but some solid missed strikes. Around 20mn after I had caught my first-fifth fish, he sets the hook on a reel screamer. This mack was a solid 24in, and was the largest spanish mack caught on the trip. About 5 minutes later, a 44in king mackeral(mono leader) the largest king of the trip. He also caught the largest of the trout of the trip. This pattern stayed consistant throughout the trip. Less keepers, but larger keeper fish.

To sum up our few days. The bite was on from start to finish. The Gulp produced a larger amount of hits, strikes, and variety of fish. At the same time, the DOA may have generated less bites, stikes and variety, but it did produce nothing but keeper quality and size fish. So I guess the question is, which do you prefer? Do you prefer to continously catch a variety of fish with a larger amount of keepers, or do you prefer to catch only large quality keepers?

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