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Post by richm on Mar 8, 2024 19:31:39 GMT -5
Jumping all over the place…. We got 2 w rapalas. Most ignored us.
What to do?
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Post by lemaymiami on Mar 9, 2024 8:37:17 GMT -5
Bring enough chum to last four hours, establish that chum slick where you've seen the macks - Enjoy... They'll hit live bait (pilchards, sardines, etc. as well as live shrimp) drifted back in the slick on a long shank blued or browned hook (they're leader shy - if you use any wire leader at all keep in light (#3, or even #2 coffee wire) and keep it short... Long shank hooks (your tackle shop will know what you need with no more than a 30lb fluor or pink mono leader...
Or, once they show up use any small lure you have... spoons, jigs, leadheads small plugs - enjoy... and expect a few cut-offs... Don't be surprised if bonita, king mackeral and other species show up in that slick as well...
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Post by tonyroma on Mar 9, 2024 11:54:21 GMT -5
Match the hatch. What were they chewing on. The macs, blues , and ladyfish will show up like that inside the Vilano inlet. A lot of times it’s glass minnows. Smallest silver spoon rip it as fast as you can reel threw the chaos. Love when that happens with kids on the boat.
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Post by richm on Mar 10, 2024 8:52:43 GMT -5
Thanx guys.
I made a run to store and got some clark spoons w the red bead.
Trolled around the inlet. Used a 1 oz egg sinker about 4 ft up from spoon. BiL used rapala. Spoons caught 2 or 3 to his 1.
We kept 27.
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Post by tankered on Mar 14, 2024 10:14:40 GMT -5
Clark spoons are the shit for spanish macks.
One thing you have to watch though is that hook likes to corrode right up by the screw that holds it on. Lost more than one fish that way.
Rinse them real good after use, and I'll even put some WD-40 on them for good measure.
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Post by richm on Mar 14, 2024 20:07:31 GMT -5
Clark spoons are the shit for spanish macks. One thing you have to watch though is that hook likes to corrode right up by the screw that holds it on. Lost more than one fish that way. Rinse them real good after use, and I'll even put some WD-40 on them for good measure. Thanks for that. I rinse my stuff buy will keep an eye on the hooks. We got 7 more today, 5 on thr clark spoon, 2 on rapala.
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Post by fsu11 on Mar 26, 2024 12:41:54 GMT -5
As a certified Spanish Killer, the best thing is to troll clark spoons at 4-5mph i typically vary my spread with one with no weight, one with a 1 oz trout sinker weight, a 1 1/2 oz and a 2 oz trout sinker. I tie my mainline to the trout sinker ring and then the swivel on the other end of weight gets a 3 ft 25-50lb flouro leader to the clark spoon. this helps them spin without having any issues.
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Post by richm on Mar 26, 2024 19:55:13 GMT -5
Thanks FSU!
We caught most on clark spoons, 5 mph. 1oz weight 5 ft in front, 25# mono leader. Got bigger ones on 2-1/2 inch rapala shad raps, just got 3 or 4 to 1 w spoons.
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Post by tankered on Mar 27, 2024 9:17:10 GMT -5
Why do you guys use mono or flouro leaders?
6" of singlestrand wire won't spook them off.
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Post by richm on Mar 27, 2024 12:02:43 GMT -5
Why do you guys use mono or flouro leaders? 6" of singlestrand wire won't spook them off. They don't cut thru 25# mono, I've caught em on sabiki rigs too - not a lot of chomp power I guess.
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Post by saltybum on Mar 28, 2024 8:42:15 GMT -5
They don't cut thru 25# mono
Depends on how big they are. Few years back fishing with Troy Perez looking for cobia we came accross a school of jumbos (4-5lbs) and they were hungry and hitting our cobia jigs and cutting off 40-50lb mono leaders. Finally left them after losing a few jigs but still keep a couple. Never seen one over 2lbs since.
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Post by tankered on Mar 28, 2024 8:59:09 GMT -5
Agree, saltybum. The fall runs up here off Cedar Key are full of 4-5 lb Spanish and if you don't have wire it will be a costly (or short) trip.
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Post by richm on Mar 28, 2024 9:15:56 GMT -5
Agree, saltybum. The fall runs up here off Cedar Key are full of 4-5 lb Spanish and if you don't have wire it will be a costly (or short) trip. That sounds like a fun day on the water. We run larger spoons on mono for kings over here and other folks fish mono for wahoo. Maybe if the spoons were bigger the fish wouldn't get em too deep? The bigger spanish macks were got were 14-15 inches to the fork. Biggest one I ever heard of was my mom getting a 26 incher freelining shrimp for trout/reds/snook in the ICW.
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Post by tankered on Mar 29, 2024 9:47:56 GMT -5
14-15" at the fork is a smaller spring-run fish around here. We get tons over 20", many at 24" and up.
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Post by richm on Mar 29, 2024 13:46:13 GMT -5
14-15" at the fork is a smaller spring-run fish around here. We get tons over 20", many at 24" and up. Most of what I'm seeing is 12-13 inches. If we could get 20-24 inch fish, would definitely spend a couple days and target them w the wife - she likes to reel stuff in she can keep...
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