Thread: A Tail of 2 Shimanos....

Good times. Next time you're there, hopefully soon, try fishing small metal jigs near surface for bonito. Last time I caught a 20 inch rocket on my BC 83 Flex and 0.3 PE with 4 lbs leader. What fun that was, rod bent into a letter C all the way down to the lower grip...

Thanks for the tip S-V! Funny think is I’m not new to this Multidpecie fishing business but I don’t know the names of all these fishes I caught over the years until recently I bought a ID pamphlet off of eBay on fishes of Pacific Ocean. You right I saw anglers were jigging spoons and metal lures off San Clemente Pier and thought they were after much bigger fish than my 3lb mono can handle so never thought of asking what they were after...lol. I’ll be sure to try it out next time with bigger lines that’s for sure.


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You only need tougher lines if you're raising bigger catch onto the pier or tall rocks (sounds like what you were doing this past weekend) or throwing heavy lures in the surf. There are plenty of places where you can fish from the shoreline. I used to go "ajing" with 1.5 lbs ester and have a blast with different size mackerel. Bonito is a kind of small tuna that is in season now, it makes runs like any other tuna – lots of singing drag if you have the right tackle...

P.S. Let's keep in mind that this is a panfish forum