When I got to the pier, lots of people were
fishing. A few locals caught nice mackerel. Some used float rig and others used
just a two-hook drift rig. Lots of mini-size blue up to 8’’ were schooling and
biting on bait casted. In the school of mini-blue, a few mackerel of 10-12’’
were swimming in shallow.
I casted a mackerel jig and traced from shallow
to deep but mack didn’t even chase it. So I gave up and tied a hook at the
end of fluorocarbon leader. I put a piece of mackerel on it and casted 40’ or
so. As the bait sink, blue fish bit on and ran. I caught several blues and
released. Meantime I caught a mackerel. Those who kept mack did the same thing,
caught a mack during fishing tens of mini-blue.
Mack were completely visible. Even when a
mack came across the bait on hook, it just passed by. It didn't mean they were not interested
in the bait. Actually they did eat a small fragment of bait without hook. What
was happening? I looked at them and found that mack distinguished bait without
hook from the one with hook! When a mack found a piece of bait, it approached
but didn’t bite on it immediately. After circling around a few times to confirm it was natural
bait, it ate the bait. During circling around, mack looked like measuring the speed
of sinking. If the bait was at almost the same depth, mack bit on it. If the
bait went deeper, they just ignored. Mack were also waiting for blue tearing
the bait. When bluefish bit on the bait on hook, mack followed them and ate
safe fragment of bait blue tore. That was incredible for me but did happen. How
smart they are!
In three hours of fishing, I managed to
catch 4 mack and kept one relatively large bluefish. There are lots of
mysteries at just off the pier.
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