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Casting Bait Bags With Shrimp & Squid! - ScubaChris - 07-20-2016
Today my buddy Wayne Choy needed fish to make fishcake so i took him to my "un-secret" spot to fill the cooler. Had multiple huge strikes, some we couldn't bring in. Some strikes happen within a second of the bait hitting the water!
The main targeted species was O'io (known as Bonefish) or "Boners". Had a GT hit but couldn't bring it in. Did get an Awa'awa (Ladyfish), also great for making fishcake. Had so many hits that i decided to put my video unit away & just enjoy myself filling the cooler.
We used my system of "Bait Bags". You save your bait this way & don't need to check it often. I was recovering from pulling out my left leg, now i need to start that over again. The soft sand really strained my leg all day. We alternated shrimp & squid for stuffing bait bags. Left in the middle of the afternoon as we had enough fish by then.
For shallower depths (3-5ft) i shorten my lead line from 3ft to 1-1/2ft. Afterwards we lost less fish. Why is that? The fish will tend to drag the lead on the bottom due to it being shallow. The lead gets hung-up on reef and/or coral. We had hits that resulted in lost lead, lost leadline & snapped mainline. After reducing the leadline length this waste of supplies stopped.
Some beachgoers might be dismayed at me for letting "Baby Jaws" back into the water. Sorry but if i don't eat it, it goes back. I hope you anglers that never tried my system of using stretchable finger gauze bandage will take a hard look at the results shown here & consider the benefits of spending less money buying bait to checking your baits less often.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YXoBUTpm5w
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