prfect1 wrote:
business trip to Antigua on Saturday. Be there a week. Any recommendations for fishing? I am staying on the south east coast
Great place to fish and your on the correct coast! Take a charter out of Jolly Harbour and trolling for Wahoo, Dorado, tuna, marlin and sailfish. You'll catch huge barracuda too but they have no fight and are only good to put back in! Enjoy man! Visit Nelsons Dockyard on the Southern point too. Great place.
Ill give it a go this week Pirate as our bait shop only has ghosts in at the moment!
Fresh water pirate wrote:
Four ounce weight on slider with a little pro cure sturgeon sauce insert hook point tail end first..through the bodies...all the way out the mouth.out here it's barbless...so some people use stretchy thread shortest legal leader is eighteen inches in california I believe
cheers sure is correct on rules barbless and not seen any rules on leaders length! Not tried the sturgeon sauce! So you kill the shrimp with the hook set? Ive been trying to keep them wriggling going through the tail then stretchy thread.
Fresh water pirate wrote:
Baddonut. I have been fishing in 25 ft of water.my spot is kinda like a mountain with the top cut off.deeper all around..what you want to look for is a nice flat bottom.sturgeon don't chase bait around...they get over it and use a vacumn tube to pick it up.they generally follow tide direction so once ya see em on yer graph go past that spot little ways and set anchor.cant stress how much using a pole balancer helps see the bite.wait till the rod and line are almost straight before setting hook.i use nothing but ghost shrimp at my location.hope this helps you out.if it does tell em "the pirate taught me" lol good luck
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Sorry Pirate how you rigging the ghosts?
Fresh water pirate wrote:
Baddonut. I have been fishing in 25 ft of water.my spot is kinda like a mountain with the top cut off.deeper all around..what you want to look for is a nice flat bottom.sturgeon don't chase bait around...they get over it and use a vacumn tube to pick it up.they generally follow tide direction so once ya see em on yer graph go past that spot little ways and set anchor.cant stress how much using a pole balancer helps see the bite.wait till the rod and line are almost straight before setting hook.i use nothing but ghost shrimp at my location.hope this helps you out.if it does tell em "the pirate taught me" lol good luck
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Ill give it a go when I come back, off to work again offshore so will be out for a good few weeks! Cheers for the top tips will let you know how I do. CaptJim gave alot of good advice too!!
Well still skunked on the mighty monster....plenty stripers but no sturgeon....ghost shrimp, wd40 anise, salmon roe.... tbf only been out about 4 times now and always in deep water. Will try San Pablo bay next big tide! Send me the fish magic gents!
Angola: big, big edible Barracuda, Tarpon, Tuna, Red Snapper, grouper, Bonito and Jack Cravalle and the mighty tiger fish up the Congo river along with plenty Cubera Snappers. North at Soyo. Dominique charters great accom and fishing.
St Lucia: all sports fish, Barra, Sailfish, Marlin and great location!
Guyana: river fish strange types and lots of them! Piranha too! Plenty giant Otters and Caimen.
Best.....Guyana and Angola, Guyana is easier to get too and speaks English so go for that!
Pulled a keeper and a shaker from the delta by Pittsburg Saturday whilst trolling. Shallow troll with a crankbait and a jointed minow. The crank pulled both strippers in. Then took the Harley to the Pittsburg fish market for excellent fish and chips!
captjim wrote:
A good book on sturgeon fishing is "San Francisco Bay Sturgeon" by Abe Cuanang. It shows techniques and locations. I know Abe and Angelo Cuanang and this book is a must for any sturgeon fisherman in S.F. bay.
I will read this book thanks, I’ve seen quite a number of keepers coming ashore on the ramp today, I couldn’t go out today but tomorrow will try again this time as you suggest with regard to tides!
https://tides4fishing.com/us/california/pittsburg-new-york-slough works pretty good
cnewton700 wrote:
If you can stand the sometimes paralyzing cold, a long list of regulations, and a 50% increase
in last year's already high fishing fees, Pyramid Lake is loaded with double-digit Cut-throat trout.
This 15-pounder fell for one of my home-made jigs while l was ladder fishing last week.
Fantastic fish dude! Good skills, cold and perching on a ladder!
Atonynichols wrote:
welcome to sturgeon fishing. I hooked up one of of Martinez second one in 30 years. it was over length had to leave it in the water the line finally gave out . all the techniques in the world I was rigged for stripper no wire leader 50 lbs test mono. with a tail section of A sardine. no balance board or teetertotter. its 20 ft there. its not a craps table no beginners luck. just keep trying best time seems to be after a rain
Yep dont lack the will power just the skills...and the concentration maybe. Others mentioned the rain. Will keep the forum updated! I hope for progress this weekend!
captjim wrote:
One thing I forgot to mention. This is important when fishing for sturgeon in shallow water. This is where you do not want to go where everybody else is. Sturgeon are very sound sensitive. Just an anchor hitting the water can spook them. Keep in mind sound travels through water 7 X faster and easier than air. So if you heard the guy next to you drop a weight in his boat the sturgeon heard it 7 x farther away than you did. The noise from a group of boats anchored close to each other can spook sturgeon right out of the area. The deeper you fish the less this applies. In San Pablo bay I never get closer than a 1/4 mile to another boat, and some times even further. As you slowly move into an area, watch for jumpers. But once you are in the area you plan to fish keep the boat speed at an idle. Again less noise to spook the fish.
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Again experience is crucial and your info is gold. I talked with a pro guide boat yesterday but they were not revealing much....saw they were using roe and same rod as me. So just gotta find the fish and get em to bite the bait and me to notice it to hit it...
Kerry Hansen wrote:
BADD
Not sure how limber those rods are, but you need a very soft tip that flexes maybe 1/3 - 1/2 way easily. It is about what that rod is doing to your bait as I have said here many times previously. You don't want to be moving your rod or having a stiff rod that actually jerks the bait when the boat moves or bounces because of the wind, waves etc! The rods I have made myself and others are a 7' composite rod (glass in tip and graphite in the butt), so soft in the tip and rated 20-50 lbs. So go to the sport shop and see if they have a "composite" rod and check to see if soft tip. Another thing I started using which increased my catch rate is a "SLIDO" that you put on your main line above your swivel connecting your leader and main line.
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Its known as a sturgeon rod, you can find pros on you tube using this rod and ive seen the pro guides using them. The uglystick is as limber as a stick tbh but cant afford another pheonix until I hook a keeper to persuade the wife its worthy!
Dandad wrote:
I always had best luck using live grass shrimp, as many as you can cram on the hook. Diligence watching the rod tip is a must. Sometimes a bite can be so subtle you can barely detect it. I spent years missing the bite. you must focus on the rod tip 100% of the time. Even then I have gone many times without bites. Sturgeon are elusive but trust me, if you persist you will catch. I always had best luck at slack and outgoing tide especially after a rain. Good luck.
Magic as I’ve been holding rod by hand I’ve had full concentration until it wanders......!!!