Hi gang. I fished laguna for a couple hours between morning appointments. After my SCI trip last weekend, I was itching to do some more jig fishing. I left the big hammers and my swimbait rods at home and brought the jigstick instead. I figured doing so would force me to fish the iron and really focus on it. It took a while to get back into flinging the Tady 45 and dialing into the right crank speed. I got several bites but missed them (yes, I kept reeling like you're supposed to, lol). After a bit, I saw a gold flash come under the jig and I got bit but it didn't stick so I stopped cranking to let it fall and a second fish came up as I started to wind again--fish on! A nice 2.7# calico. This was my first bass on the iron from shore as I'd only used it from boats until now. I got many more missed bites (like 10-12) that I probably would have hooked if I had on a smaller jig or a swimbait. It sure is a lot more work than swimbaits. Water was just off-color with a thin overcast mixed with some sun. Surf's supposed to build soon, so be careful.

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Very cool David, you should also try megabaits hammered spoons in mackeral and sardine colors. Drop them down through the forest and get hit on the drop. I'm sure you where looking pretty east coast with that long rod throwing from the rocks. See ya on the 5th. Did you catch my pre-fishing report on allcoast? better yet read the one on senortuna.

Don