Very Tough Bite

Type: Tidal
Region: Southern
Location: Pt. Lookout

After catching our limit of croakers a few days ago at Pt. Lookout, we couldn't wait to get back out on the water. We fished from a boat using fresh bloodworms, sea-salted bloodworms, squid and green worms.

We visited our favorite waypoint, and the first cast yielded the first fish using a fresh bloodworm on a red-beaded rig. Great, we're going to pick up where we left off, so we thought. To our surprise, we didn't get a another nibble or bite for the next two hours. We bounced around from waypoint to waypoint with no success.

It was a great time to try out these new green-dyed worms that we bought at Wal-Mart. Don't know what kind of worms they are, but they caught our second fish of the day. We think they're dyed because the green color comes off on your hands. Since the green worms worked, we decided to try a rig with green beads, and we were back to catching using all baits. Cycled through our rig colors just to make sure we weren't missing anything, and we also caught fish on light green and purple beaded rigs. Purple actually turned out to be the best. The colors that did not work at all today were yellow, gold, black and orange.

Although is was a tough bite, we ended the day with 18 croaker, 1 spot and 1 toadfish. A challenging yet fun day on the water.