6/16/08 Portofino!!!
Got a little past Portofino around 12 and stayed till around 5:30. Had a nice soft breeze out of the south that slowly turned pretty strong by the end of the day. The water was fairly calm for most of the day. No jellyfish by the way...
Started off trying to sight fish for a pompano or two with a pink jig, but only saw one and after about 30 minutes I quit that venture. Ate a sandwich and went back out with a MirrOlure suspending MirrOminnow and proceeded to catch probably 30 small jacks and ladyfish. The jacks were all under a foot by a good bit, but were tons of fun on my light 7' rod and 2500 Stradic. It was amazing to see a school of hundreds of tiny jacks come swimming right around you. As the wind picked up I switched to a Gotcha and then to a gold spoon and caught fish on both. I could've thrown out my sunscreen bottle and they wold have hit it. All I had to do was cast out whatever I was using and reel in as fast as I could. I spent a total of about 4 hours catching jacks and ladyfish and can't remember a better time I've had fishing. I even had a double hookup on the MirrOlure.
Overall I caught tons of fish. Trash fish, but they were still a blast. My shoulers are already sore form all the casting and speed reeling. I'm still waiting for the time I go and the big jacks are out there. One day......
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