TheRoguePirate

All right fellow anglers, here is the skinny on this weekend’s action at the NAS Pier…
Friday night the reds were flowing like rivers of wine in Capistrano. If you did not get the Dumb and Dumber reference, I mean reds were everywhere. Some big bulls were brought in crashin top water bait and the slot size were constant about two or three cranks off the bottom with everything from live pins, fresh cut bait, squid and plastics. One of the reds I later chopped up for dinner was found to still have a Gulp “Jerk Shad” in its tummy, must have been recent cause the color on the shad was still bright. So if you’re the man or woman who had one get away, don’t worry, I got him for you!
The most depressing part of Friday night was the emergence of red snapper. I have never seen so many grown men cry until about 1900 when a school of came in and it was one after another of good size and weight on them. One after another we all slowly broke down each time we caught a big one and put him back in…..Can’t wait for the season to start up again!
Things slowed down considerable around 2100 with a few blues nailing anything trolled at high speed past them about a foot below the surface. And a few tiny sand sharks showed up later that night. I will say, I caught the largest octopus I have ever seen with a diameter of about 24 inches. Am I the only one who gets weirded out taking those off the lines when they wrap around you? I can handle a lot, but I still feel weird when they do.
There were two suspected grouper hits (based on the rod action) but delayed reaction proved the fish were smarter and quicker than the people.
Saturday started off with more red fish action mixed in with the blues (I think they are traveling buddies) but died off about an hour after sunrise. Throughout the day specks made their presence known here and there on live shrimp as well as white trout. The white trout hung around for the first few hours in the morning than moved off to greener pastures. They did make a return about 1800 that night, again live shrimp being their dinner selection. They hung around again until about 2100 and then went to bed.
Blues were nailing anything again trolled about a foot down off the surface. And the reds returned with them to ring the dinner bell. We answered this time with a yellow and silver gotcha plug and had a tasty dinner ourselves again later that night.
Sunday the blues were back early however their traveling buddies (the reds) did not make an appearance, guess they missed the bus. The morning was a lot of wind and white caps, this equaled to not a lot of anything happening until about 0800 when the red snapper came back to play. They took off about 1000.
Spanish were in abundance hitting on spoons, sabiki rigs, and pretty much anything else that’s shiny.
There was a suspected grouper hit but cannot be confirmed, just going off the rod action again. 1000 left me standing there almost alone as the bite died completely except for some small Spanish so I went home to clean the weekend’s catch and start cooking.
I hope to see you all out there next weekend! Same bat time, same bat channel! (The hours of the pier will be the same as this weekend.) Email me if you need to be reminded again!
TRP

submariner

thanks for the post sounds like fun

osborne311

Is this the pier near Crabs and the police sub station?

__________________
We need a bigger cooler!

TheRoguePirate

No, it is on the Naval Air Station.

TRP

osborne311

and thus only open to military?

__________________
We need a bigger cooler!

TheRoguePirate

Anyone with Base Privledge, yes.

TRP

Seatmech86

So if you say your going to the museum which is open to the public and you just happen to make a slight detour is any body checking military ID at the gate to the peir? Just saying. If your donating and following the rules, what then. There was a certain other group out there that I was working with and that's about how we saw it. I would have to say its really up to the folks running it at the pier

Cornflake789

Jealoussss I miss it so much but hey! Ill be back this summer, hat and all tearing up that pier!

__________________


"Im Indy when im catching fish and Cornflake when im not"

KWCONCH79

I'm down at Hurlburt and would love to give the Pier a try... can you tell me the best way to get to it? I am not real familiar with the base.

Thanks

Tom

Seatmech86

Come through the front gate, fork left, if you miss it no big deal follow this next set the same way, drive til your only option is left or right and go left, drive until your staring at a parking lot in front of you and to your right, park in the right lot you have arrived.