10-05-2008, 12:24 PM
[quote name='MikeKCT' post='11598' date='May 9 2008, 08:09 PM']I have been keeping and eye on this thread waiting to read that the run is in and folks are filling buckets but that just doesn't seem to be happening.
From the reports I have read the squid appear to be there but either very shy or only feeding in small blitzes for a short time during the night.
I know there are plenty of folks out with lights and generators and the baitfish are under the lights but I am curious as to whether anyone has tried to chum? Small cut up pieces of butterfish, bunker, whatever, should help, I believe.
Anyone willing to give it a shot and see what happens?[/quote]
Hi Miike, I tried that last year and nothing happened. When we are offshore tuna fishing they just sit there in the lights grabbing the butterfish chunks but that doesn't seem to be the case when they are inshore spawning. I think that when they are there you can get them if they are feeding but they don't seem to be around in the thick pods that we see offshore or during the good years when its lock and load.
Snaildarter
From the reports I have read the squid appear to be there but either very shy or only feeding in small blitzes for a short time during the night.
I know there are plenty of folks out with lights and generators and the baitfish are under the lights but I am curious as to whether anyone has tried to chum? Small cut up pieces of butterfish, bunker, whatever, should help, I believe.
Anyone willing to give it a shot and see what happens?[/quote]
Hi Miike, I tried that last year and nothing happened. When we are offshore tuna fishing they just sit there in the lights grabbing the butterfish chunks but that doesn't seem to be the case when they are inshore spawning. I think that when they are there you can get them if they are feeding but they don't seem to be around in the thick pods that we see offshore or during the good years when its lock and load.
Snaildarter