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In law wanted to go fishing in the salt for the first time so I decided to take him to the jetty off 72nd street. Never anything big, but there are always fish to be caught. We started off at 8 and fished until the bottom @ 2pm. Total fish: 3 smelt and 2 macks. We tossed multiple kinds of plastic but only the gulp 2" sandworms worked. He was happy to catch fish and I was happy to put him on something. Didn't see much of anything else being caught though. Did see a decent sized corbina cruising the shallows. He's looking forward to the next trip out already. Gotta slowly work him up to tubing

Awesome Kin, way to get out there with the in law....and macks can put up some good fights....good job...

Wtg out there getting the In Law on some salt water fish . sounds like your going to have a new fishing partner soon enough

Nice job out there. From what I've heard, this past weekend was slow for a lot of people.

WTG kin.
It's always fun seeing new fisherman's excitement.

That jetty is where I first used an artificial bait. Drop shot gulp minnows killed the halibuts for me back then

Good report, thanks for sharing.

Nice! Macceral are always a good start to cut ones teeth on when it comes to fishin the brine!

Thanks for the kind words everyone! He told me he didn't want to fish for trout and wanted to try the salt. I was actually hoping to put him on some pancakes but the mac00ks ans smelt saved the day! Maybe i'll take him grubbing/throwing jerkbaits from the surf next. I want to have him enjoy being out there more so than catching. But hey, who's complaining if fish are cooperating right?

it beats work lol