Thread: Basic pier fishing setup? Help

Originally Posted by Haywire

The best thing you can do is hire Pier#r. The second best thing is to get somebody else to hire him and tag along.

+1 - Ditto - I second that motion

Originally Posted by HB2392

Went and fished the pier for the first time tonight from 7:30-9:30. Fished a little before the T and the rest past the T about halfway, mostly dropped close to the pier. Carolina rigged with live bulls, no bites. Tied a jighead on with some gulp grubs and fleas, still nothing. Only things I saw being caught were catfish and about three sharks were hooked. Critique me.

Some folks I fished with last week have been getting (occasional) slot reds on 1/2-3/4 ounce silver spoons jigged almost vertically.
Also some small spanish and a variety of ladyfish and other jacks along with bluefish.
Those reds are in the trough and down current (wind) of the sandbar feeding on small LYs. That's why the spoons are working now.

Try that or some live small LYs (or cut sardines) in those same areas in the morning when the tide is falling and the wind is lighter...

Haywire, you crack me up. Your point of view is must be laser guided.

Thanks pier! And yes haywire I would love to hire him, already tried but he's tied up and we leave Saturday. Gonna try tonight though and see what happens.

Thanks, guys. I'm hoping that, if I'm good, the Great Oz will one day give me a brain. HB2392---I may get out to the pier tomorrow afternoon, so if you see a fat man with a goofy cap pulling a cart with a "Haywire" flag on it, come say "Howdy". Maybe we can pool our ignorance and outwit a fish.

Will do it Haywire. Ill be out there tomorrow too. Just got back, caught a nice size ladyfish, few small ones and a catfish. Had a good time!

Would like to do the meet and hand shake when I return in March..sralman308

Steve, I hope my flag will still be waving in the dawn's early light next March, but I have a severe conflict that month because it's spring turkey season. Decisions, decisions---turkey gobblers or sheepshead and early mackerel.