Opeleye fishing

Find the spot where rock meets sand. Toss peas, shrimp, ghosts, mussel, corn etc... Opaleye respond well to chum... Bread, tortillas, American cheese, hot dogs, etc.. all work as chum as well... Not a hard fish to target

 

Depends on the spot. Take notes about what works and it will help you get more consistent.

 

There are certainly opaleye there, the rock wrasse might plague you though. If you catch big ones, eat them

 

Not a problem. I assume you are intending to eat these panfish? Damn few target them otherwise...lol

 

Scale and gut them underwater (no smell). Keep them cold after harvest and eat them promptly.

 

If your on a jetty or outlet, watch for eddies in the high to outgoing tide. Chuck bait in there with as little weight as possible to get it into the strike zone. Or just ask Werfless or K-Bo Smack. They seem to have it dialed in this year.

 

Can you cook them first?

 

Optional, from what I hear. I prefer cooked, myself

 

Talking to a fella this morning that had been to a new sushi place. I asked how he liked the food. He said it was a little under-cooked.

 

What he said, wrasse are very plentiful and if you find minimum 10” or so they are worth preparing, they’re like nature’s fish stick. Werfless avoids them and I target them lol, my advice is if you find yourself in a wrasse hole, 1) move, they seem to me to swarm and attack in small spots, like 10 feet away you can probably avoid them 2) don’t use shrimp or any crustacean as bait or chum if they’re around.

 

How did it go, SpottieAddict ? Got anything to add?

 

Fish with me sometime.. I usually fish Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday around sunset... I can get you on a few