Fishing 101 - Pay Attention

Type: Chesapeake
Region: Southern
Location: Point Lookout

Our last bottom fishing trip to Point Lookout showed a large quantity of birds and breaking fish in the area. Needless to say we had to put away the bottom fishing gear and break out the jigs. We caught a few blue and rock but in my opinion we should have caught many more. The bluefish were throwing up glass minnows and since our goal was bottom fishing we were unprepared to match the hatch. We went home and decided to make a few test rigs that looked like glass minnows. Today we tried to test our new jigs at the same place in Point Lookout and guess what, no birds. We had made up some new "no kink / no coil flicker circle hooks with beads" so we decided to test them instead. They remained straight, kept there shape and performed very well. We caught king fish, spot, perch, croaker, puffer and sea bass. We tested 8 colors (red, yellow, chartreuse, brown, blue, white, silver and orange) and surprisingly yellow out fished them all including the red and chartreuse. Here are two pics, one of which shows a close up of the no kink / no coil hook leader.