anyone lose their big hammer?

hey, i went fishing yesterday and found this. just wondering if anyone lost it. lol, i didnt end up catching anything. it was at harbor island

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Not mine...but one day i caught my own war bait that i swear was mine....unless theres another kook out there who fishes a warbait on a t&c with a san diego jam knot. My hook somehow got wrapped in the line that was connected to the warbait.

nice!. how do you fish your T&C baits? i fished all yester day and didnt get bit until i used live bait.

tubefish wrote:nice!. how do you fish your T&C baits? i fished all yester day and didnt get bit until i used live bait.

Is that normal?? I know a few guys that rented a boat and fished NPH and they said they got 20 plus fish in a day, but whenever I go I'm lucky if I get one

The said I would be lucky to get one unless I use live bait or at least fresh muscles. Have yet to try, but not sure if they where on the right spot or if it's true or not?

Ill catch more fish with artificials than you will with live bait. Why? Because i can cast my bait where the fish are...and work it right in front of them. You can't do that with live bait...and if you try you'll burn through bait/moneu like crazy. I know some guys do really good with live bait though...but for spotties i do better with plastics....not trying to sound cocky because im no expert...i just got skunked in CV a little while ago...but thats what ive noticed.

It is mine I could recognize that chewed up jig anywhere

Yup, it's my big hammer black widow on a 1/2oz leadheads, I got broken off in HBH that spotty must live in San Diego. HaHa

Hey MASSFISHER,
Artificials against live bait? Tall talk mister!

LGHT, sounds like a challenge!!

I'm bett'in on bait!!

hee hee bodfish

I smell a competition in the near future....

Here's the way i see it: spotted bay bass are structure orientated, ambush predators. Throe some live bait out there and you better hope that it lands A) Near a spotted bay bass B)Near a bunch of structure that the spotty can get to without exposong himself to other predators.

By the time you've rigged your bait and casted it out, ive already fan casted a whole area and either A)Caught fish and know they're in the area B) Didnt catch one but got bit and know that although in the area i must change color, bait or presantation to tempt the fish enough for a hook up. C) Didnt get bit at all and know that the fish either arent in that spot or are in a negative feeding mode....meaning move to a new spot it if you are desperate for a fish break out a reaction bait......spinnerbaitshould work here.

Oh and by the way while this all went through my head you either:

A) Caughy a fish....good for you B) Caught a lizardfish C) Lost your bait on the cast D) Need to bring your bait in and recast because it didnt land in the right spot or E) Already killed a bunch of bait through casting it over and over and now really wish you spent the money on something more important....like the soft plastics Massfisher is using to slay the spotted kind.

Ill say one thing though....i wrote this all thinking abouy spotted bay bass. If you want halibut feed 'em some live bait!!

Just for clarity are we saying "live" bait as in actually alive and swimming? Or are we talking about "cut" bait?

Are we talking about a target fish or fish in general?

Thanks

I was thinking about live as in swimming and fish as in spotties....obviously with different species it may be different.....when i wrote that first part i was half asleep so im not sure of it even makrs sense lol

sound good even tho i am will not take live bait on a tube cause of seals and other predators

Yea ive had a seal problem before due to live bait....more curious than anything but with wild animals you never know....