I have two dogs and I walk them with my girlfriend most every nite. But I was talking about fishing a Zara Spook. You may not catch as many fish but you can catch some whoppers. So this morning, that's what I did: I walked the dog.
Fishing Report, Walton Scrub 5-18-15 Low tide, then incoming 6:50am. No wind, then mild wind SE, then wind from SE about 10mph. Water water in low 80s, temp outside around 91, sunny, some clouds. Fishing Zara Spook, then 1/8 oz CAL jighead with several DOA paddletails.
I learned to fish a Zara Spook about 10 years ago when I was bass fishing, you twitch it then it turns to the right and you twitch it and it turns back to the left--it's called: walking the dog!!! It didn't take me long to remember how to do that- twitch, twitch, reel some line (repeat). The tide was very low and some baitfish were shallow-- but nothing was eating them!!! I went deep (past sandbar) and cast from Walton Scrub to the third pier with the Zara Spook- nothing, not a swirl or a hit. The thing about the Spook is: when you catch one it will be a big fish, probably a big trout, snook, or Jack. My neighbor Jim (and others) takes the 1st hook off leaving only the back hook. If he catches one it's easier to release.
I switched to a 1/8 oz CAL jig with a white DOA paddletail. Some baitfish were in the area. It only took three casts to have a trout grab my paddletail- fish on!!!
I pulled it in and used the piers to get the lure out. I noticed, when it came in, that another slightly bigger trout was following it!!! Too bad it took so long to get the lure out!! A few minutes later, I was still fishing the third weed-bed when I felt some weight, hook-set, trout on!!! This one was slightly smaller:
I went South some and small schools of bait were on the surface. Just below one of them I caught my third trout and my biggest one, a 17"er.
My third and biggest trout of the day, over 17".
I couldn't rouse a 4th trout there so I headed to the 5th weedbed, briefly fishing the 4th weed-bed (a shallow flat with patches of weeds off the 6th pier) with no results. I started fishing the 5th weed-bed deep and had a tap as I pulled it up. Several casts later a large trout came up and chased my lure as I pulled it out of the water, I could see enough of it to know it was over 20". It struck, hitting the lure, then swirled the water.
Eventually I fished shallow and felt some weight, hook-set, fish on!!!
My fourth trout of the day!!!
I caught one more trout (my fifth) after a couple minutes, then went to the last pier, which again was not productive. Just not enough water there. The last week every low tide has been so low that it's pushed the fish out to deeper water. Not many fish are shallow. In the winter, they would stay there but they can't now.
I went deep and fished back towards Walton Scrub. In the second dead zone, a huge fish struck on top after a baitfish. I didn't see the fish but it was big, probably a snook. Too bad I didn't have the Zara Spook on!! I cast there to no avail. It was getting very hot, so I fished back quickly with no strikes, and got off the water.
My totals: 5 trout (1 nice trout missed). A beautiful day on the water!!!
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