Sunday Sept. 27
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 2:03 pm
hadn't been in a couple of Sundays; beautiful day on the GS pier. alot of anticipation after a reported sailfish hookup earlier that week. I ended up with 4 grovers, one 14 incher. I am not good with pics, but here is the "money shot"...
it was great to be out there...but I've had to refine my "technique"; according to new rules we are "not allowed to fish with a sinker outside the yellow lines"; for the tally books, that's two lines on either side of the octogon that keep us "bottom fishermen" off the end...only we're not bottom fishing, just fishing straight down with a weight on. Some guys occasionally flounder fish along the edge too, but they're not in the way of the kingfishers. So, I went to fishing with no weight, just flylining (correct term?) my bait along the pier; very difficult if not impossible too get it to the fishes level, but I'm working on it. The new rule didn't bother me too much, I understand the difficulty in handling all the different temperaments, but I got a little concerned when Mr. Chuck the pier boss, said "so I guess you're going to continue to bottom fish without a weight?" I wasn't and still don't know if he was mad or just joking, but I told him I wasn't out to break the rules and would fish however he wanted me to, but I was fishing a live bait with no weight, just like the rules say. I think what they really want is kingfishers only...but I'm in compliance
Hopefully, they'll let me continue to fish for grovers...couldn't stand to give that up!!!!
it was great to be out there...but I've had to refine my "technique"; according to new rules we are "not allowed to fish with a sinker outside the yellow lines"; for the tally books, that's two lines on either side of the octogon that keep us "bottom fishermen" off the end...only we're not bottom fishing, just fishing straight down with a weight on. Some guys occasionally flounder fish along the edge too, but they're not in the way of the kingfishers. So, I went to fishing with no weight, just flylining (correct term?) my bait along the pier; very difficult if not impossible too get it to the fishes level, but I'm working on it. The new rule didn't bother me too much, I understand the difficulty in handling all the different temperaments, but I got a little concerned when Mr. Chuck the pier boss, said "so I guess you're going to continue to bottom fish without a weight?" I wasn't and still don't know if he was mad or just joking, but I told him I wasn't out to break the rules and would fish however he wanted me to, but I was fishing a live bait with no weight, just like the rules say. I think what they really want is kingfishers only...but I'm in compliance
Hopefully, they'll let me continue to fish for grovers...couldn't stand to give that up!!!!