Pacemaker Fishing Forum

Dr. Mo and I launched at 7:00AM. When we arrived at the ramp it was just before daybreak but there were several boats launching and quite a few official personel standing about. Since there was a large tent set up I asked one of the firemen if there was some sort of fund raising event going to happen. He told me that they were looking for the body of a fellow who has drowned Sunday. This sort of changed the mood. They asked us to let them know if we saw anything.

It was cloudy and a light drizzle continued off and on all day. We headed upstream and stopped to cast some bucktails during the first part of a falling tide. Mo had never done this type of fishing so I wanted him to experience the possibility of catching a rockfish. Well--he certainly got some experience. We were using some bucktails that Ernie Rojas gave me recently. Dr. Mo caught thirteen rockfish with one keeper, an eighteen incher.



I also caught about eight with no keepers. As is the case with rockfish the bite was over as quickly as it started and we moved on to seek out our original quarry, the white perch.



We took two coolers so that we could keep some alive for transplanting in our private pond and a second cooler for the ones we were going to invite to dinner. We came off the water at low tide, about two o'clock, with sixty eight perch in the dinner cooler and eighteen in the transplant cooler.



Mo also caught an almost keeper redfish The redfish in this area seem to all be almost keepers. We have not caught a keeper this year.

Carl