02-17-2007, 03:27 PM
LOL, I had a similar senario, but in a different way........
We've always taken the girls (my wife and mother in law) fishing in the inlet when the spots are biting. [not spottail bass, spots] [cool]
I'm not sure if spots migrate that far up the coast or not.
Anyhoo, most people use a two hook rig with either bloodworms or the new hotness, that synthetic strip bait, which works 5 times better. One day I got careless and said what the hell. I took my ultra lite rod and reel I was using and rigged it up with 12 #4 hooks, it looked like an over-sized sabiki rig. LOL, boy was that a mistake. I wasn't thinking what would happen if all those hooks got a fish. And sure enough, it didn't take long after dropping it in the water, almost every hook on that rig filled up. LMAO [sly] I had to wait for some of the fish to straiten the hook before I could hand-line the rig up. Good thing I used those shiney arbadeen hooks. That poor rod was bent double over, tip to butt. Having braid on the reel, it didn't break, until I started to try and hand line it while it was full. LOL, I could feel the line tensing up, so I just let them beat themselves off the hook until I could get them up with out fear of breaking off.
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We've always taken the girls (my wife and mother in law) fishing in the inlet when the spots are biting. [not spottail bass, spots] [cool]
I'm not sure if spots migrate that far up the coast or not.
Anyhoo, most people use a two hook rig with either bloodworms or the new hotness, that synthetic strip bait, which works 5 times better. One day I got careless and said what the hell. I took my ultra lite rod and reel I was using and rigged it up with 12 #4 hooks, it looked like an over-sized sabiki rig. LOL, boy was that a mistake. I wasn't thinking what would happen if all those hooks got a fish. And sure enough, it didn't take long after dropping it in the water, almost every hook on that rig filled up. LMAO [sly] I had to wait for some of the fish to straiten the hook before I could hand-line the rig up. Good thing I used those shiney arbadeen hooks. That poor rod was bent double over, tip to butt. Having braid on the reel, it didn't break, until I started to try and hand line it while it was full. LOL, I could feel the line tensing up, so I just let them beat themselves off the hook until I could get them up with out fear of breaking off.
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