mysterious billingsgate blitz

[striperboy10]

last weekend....birds and bass everywere southern tip of billingsgate and only caught one schoolie!...i could actually see bass under the boat....what happened?

[BigFishLarry]

"What Happened?"....Well, thats why they call it a mystery!

[pogie_boy]

You weren't throwin what they were eatin!

[Sea Flat]

Not knowing any information at all on the exact circumstances I would be willing to bet that the fish were on really small bait. What were you throwing? I will often go to a 6" skinny Hogy or some sort of really small metal in those conditions. Could have just also been a ton of bait in the water and your offerings could have been hard to find by the fish.

[theshadow]

You weren't throwin what they were eatin!

 

BINGO!!!!!

[Maslow]

I've found myself in situations like that before, and if what seaflat said don't work (not saying it won't), I'll throw a white danny into the mix....

[striperboy10]

You weren't throwin what they were eatin!

 

 

i threw everything i had on the boat....deadly dicks and every other tin as well as sluggos, swimmers,and poppers

[thunnus74]

small diamond jigs,under the school jigged vertically

[Murphy]

If you don't have a fly rod 3" sluggos on tiny 1/8oz heads is the only thing they will hit. They don't cast well but that is the only that they will eat when they are feeding on that micro bait. Had them in the same general area with similar water depth so thick that I could have jumped off the boat and walked on them. These were big fish so I ended up losing a bunch due to bent hooks but it beat the frustration of watching them completely ignore the larger offerings.

[striperboy10]

If you don't have a fly rod 3" sluggos on tiny 1/8oz heads is the only thing they will hit. They don't cast well but that is the only that they will eat when they are feeding on that micro bait. Had them in the same general area with similar water depth so thick that I could have jumped off the boat and walked on them. These were big fish so I ended up losing a bunch due to bent hooks but it beat the frustration of watching them completely ignore the larger offerings.

 

 

thanks for the tip...the smallest sluggo i had on board was 6''

[The Riddler]

Try a casting egg or popper and dropper with 3" Slug-go's or even a fly. You can upgrade the hook to something beefier that will land large SB rather then lose fish with inferior 1/8oz jig heads hooks.

[dugal30]

Had the same thing happen off of Wood End. All the boats were at the Race, and we were casting/trolling right through a school, used everything in the box, no dice. Demoralizing....