Collard

Went to Peg-Leg's for dinner.........pier walk afterward. There were more people on the pier than I have ever seen before in my life. There were at one time 36 people at the end doing nothing but catching hardtails. 5-7 at a time. They were using rigs big enough for Kings but had 8' long big sabiki rigs and were tearing the hardys up. I would of been pissed if the "fish" were running and had to fight for a spot because of all the "bait" catchers. There must've been 200+ out there. It was unreal. We saw nothing caught but hardtails and ladyfish. Unbelievable, the numbers there. They were lined up from the trough to the end on the east side. Unreal.

polebenda

Why would you have been pissed? Some people love to eat hardtails. and most people catching them were not at the very end where the people fish for kings and stuff. I saw 2 kings brought up but that was it. But if you're a racist I can see where this post is coming from. Because There were a lot of Vietnamese out there.... Other than that I seen some f****d up crap on the pier. There was a kid up in the front flying his jigs at people swimming and cussing at them just because he was trying to fish for pomps. If I was the people swimming I would have opened up the can of whoop on him... He'll learn one day when he throws his jig at the wrong person...

true-king

I was there the other day andpeople were casting sabikis off the T as well. If I would have got a king on, there would have been a huge mess. As for the numbers, have you ever been there in the middle of ling season?

polebenda

OK well that must have been when I left... The people catching the bait off the T was the same people throwing them out for kings and there was about 4 or 5 of them... I got tangled up about 5 or 6 times while I was out there. Thats one reason I never go to the pier. I go to enjoy myself not caring what I catch. On the other hand there are a lot of competitive people out there. It's ok to be competitive but atleast reel your line up when someone is hooked to a nice fish... The last time I was there about a year ago there was a lady with scissors cutting everyones line that was in her husbands way. Did anyone else see that?

Collard

Polebenda no one said anything about race. So keep your own ignorant racism questioning or remarks to yourself. Yeh there were a lot of Asian folks there but there were plenty of others sabiki rigging too. All I saw were people. People that would have ruined anybody's day trying to bring in a King off the T. I counted 36 people all over the end hittin' the hardtails and it was a circus. All I meant was there was plenty of room away from the T to catch what they were catching. There isn't thatmany placesto hookup on a King.

true-king

Exactly, just reel up if somebodys got a good fish on. I remember during bonita season there was some guy out there putting out set rods on the T. When the bonita were thick out there and 10-15 were hooked up at a time, the guy didn't even touch his rods. When one of my fish went under his line, I asked him to move his rod. He said, "It makes it more fun." I don't know about that, its amazing that guy's rods didn't get broken with people going over and under them.

John B.

polebenda... stop freaking crying.

i went out there today, and there was a butload of people who catch hardtails for food (and to sell, there is no way in hell you can tell me they will eat a 55quart cooler per person) they were all over the end, i worked up 3 kings, and they were all bombed by big ass sabikis...

i believe the pier has made the decision to ban hardtail sabiki fishing from the T, i think they won't let a sabiki with more that a 10# mainline on the T....

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David_H

When nothing else is happening I enjoy catching hardtails. I have eaten them they are bad, just not enough meat per fish for me to bother with them. I'll give them to anyone who wants them. A better solution would be to limit the length of the rod tied to any sabiki to 6.5 ft. and only three hooks with a mainline larger than 10# on the entire pier. When they are running well I can catch more than any one person can eat in a week in just a little while using just a single jig. Yeah those 48-64 qt coolers are solid fish most have nary a chunk of ice.

polebenda

Who is crying here??? I'm saying I don't care who is fishing for what they all pay to fish there so let them fish for what they want to fish for. As the other guy said "bait catchers" sounded like he was crying. But if I was up there I would reel my line up for people that was catching. The only thing I didn't like was the guy with the jigs whipping it at people... So what?

CurtyV22

Well their neglect to give anything back to a resource they constantly rape, as well as the harm they cause due to their primitive outlook on the environment makes me sick, but that goes for any race...so you cant call me a racist.