tip o' the week

[madscientist]

Originally Posted by nmbrinkman

You mean I'm wasting my time looking for your long, beautiful goldie locks.

Not if you're bringing some TP.

Seriously, one morning my morning coffee set off a second round of internal distress once I had gotten out off the point and I was painfully paddling out to sea trying to get away from everyone, but this one guy kept shadowing me. I tried doubling back, changing course, but I couldn't shake him. Once it became a matter of "when" not "if", I just had to hope he was up wind, for his sake. lol

Good point about the pier, Adi. One more comment about that. As we go into summer, the best places to make bait are often not under the lights, but wherever the sardines and macs are splashing around. Tip the sabiki with squid (I buy the frozen calamari rings at Trader Joe's and take one or two rings per trip...a single bag has lasted me 3 months and counting) and you can get macs all over the area around the pier without having to crowd under the lights. I can't tell you the number of days last summer that I saw 20-30 people under the lights barely catching bait while Tyler, Patrick, and I were get full sabikis every drop a little bit off. Even now, there are often groups of macs anywhere from 15-35ft in the pier area, particularly once there is gray light.