BillnChristi
New Member
ok..I am new to really fishing. I've been a few times throughout my life but haven't really been into it much. I hadn't caught a fish since I was about 7 or 8 years old. My son and daughter are visiting up from Florida and they had talked about wanting to go fishing. So 2 weeks ago we went out and bought some fishing poles, tackle, blood worms and some squid strips and off we went.
We started the first day on Clarkes landing and didn't catch anything. We just lost a few rigs due to me not knowing how to tie a hook right. LOL. Anyways, I decided to go to the tackle box and get some better tackle and the correct way to tie and bait a hook or rig. They were awesome by the way. They answered my questions totally and were very professional. The 2nd day we decided to try Greenwell State Park. To our dismay, the only thing we caught was a 6" male blue crab. Somehow my daughter had managed to hook it right behind the backfin without it getting off. I still say that was the luckiest thing I have ever seen. On Tuesday nite we decided we would try Point lookout. It was so windy that nite and with the amount of people there...lines were getting tangled. I was the only one to catch anything and it was a 10" croaker. After about 4 hours there, we decided to call it quits. Now I am looking to take them out early Saturday morning around 4 or 5 am. My questions to you are as follows:
1. Where is the best place to go around that time where it isn't too crowded?
2. What bait should I use?
3. What type of rigs should I use? we are currently using bottom rigs and I am not sure if we are doing it right. I hear top rigs work good at times but I am not sure how to set them up.
4. We are doing this for fun and plan on catching and releasing..but we would like to catch a fish or two. So any help, suggestions, websites or just typed comments are greatly appreciated.
If anyone would like to join us and give us some pointers, any fish we catch is yours..LOL. We just want to have a good time and the kids are getting discouraged not catching anything.
Once again...any and I mean ANY type of help is greatly appreciated. We are just surf or pier fishing and don't have access to a boat. So please keep that in mind when making suggestions. We are willing to drive about an hour or so away and my wife and I only have salt water licenses. We may look into getting freshwater licenses in the future. If anyone also knows where we can rent a boat that would be good also. We plan on making a day of it on Saturday, with a boat or without.
Thanks in advance for all your help!
We started the first day on Clarkes landing and didn't catch anything. We just lost a few rigs due to me not knowing how to tie a hook right. LOL. Anyways, I decided to go to the tackle box and get some better tackle and the correct way to tie and bait a hook or rig. They were awesome by the way. They answered my questions totally and were very professional. The 2nd day we decided to try Greenwell State Park. To our dismay, the only thing we caught was a 6" male blue crab. Somehow my daughter had managed to hook it right behind the backfin without it getting off. I still say that was the luckiest thing I have ever seen. On Tuesday nite we decided we would try Point lookout. It was so windy that nite and with the amount of people there...lines were getting tangled. I was the only one to catch anything and it was a 10" croaker. After about 4 hours there, we decided to call it quits. Now I am looking to take them out early Saturday morning around 4 or 5 am. My questions to you are as follows:
1. Where is the best place to go around that time where it isn't too crowded?
2. What bait should I use?
3. What type of rigs should I use? we are currently using bottom rigs and I am not sure if we are doing it right. I hear top rigs work good at times but I am not sure how to set them up.
4. We are doing this for fun and plan on catching and releasing..but we would like to catch a fish or two. So any help, suggestions, websites or just typed comments are greatly appreciated.
If anyone would like to join us and give us some pointers, any fish we catch is yours..LOL. We just want to have a good time and the kids are getting discouraged not catching anything.
Once again...any and I mean ANY type of help is greatly appreciated. We are just surf or pier fishing and don't have access to a boat. So please keep that in mind when making suggestions. We are willing to drive about an hour or so away and my wife and I only have salt water licenses. We may look into getting freshwater licenses in the future. If anyone also knows where we can rent a boat that would be good also. We plan on making a day of it on Saturday, with a boat or without.
Thanks in advance for all your help!
