6/24 SD Bay. Not quite Under the Bridge

[MistrRocko]

Woke up to a beautiful day and wanted to be part of it. Plus I've been hitting Barrett hard and needed to look at a different kind of fish for a session.

Fished 1-5pm. Fishing was wide open until about 20 minutes before low tide and then picked up again starting about 40 minutes into the incoming tide. I struggled to stay out of the eel grass toward the very end regardless of which direction I cast or the speed of my retrieve and forgot to bring any texas rig stuff, but I was still getting bit consistently when not covered in grass.

Total: 32 spotties, 1 very short halibut. All fish caught on a 3" baitfish pattern paddle tail on 3/8 and 1/2oz jigheads in approx 8-25 feet of water. Fish caught deeper were bigger on average but no legal fish were caught. Find the grass, find the bass. 1/4oz would have been better when the eel grass flared up but I had barely any time left and didn't feel like switching. Always be prepared with a wide range of jighead sizes as well as at least a couple texas rig weight sizes to keep yourself at the appropriate depth and dusting the bottom or tickling the eel grass without snagging it too often. Significantly more valuable than having a bunch of different colors; you care about those a lot more than the fish.

Back to Barrett, see y'all there in a couple hours.