I fished the beach at Kirby Cove from 2 to 6:30pm, high tide was a 4pm. I cast out a sliding sinker rig with squid on a circle hook and started setting up a hi/low rig on another rod. Before I could finish I heard the clicker going off, I locked the reel and gave a pull and my line went slack, I reeled in the 65lb braid with a torn end, my whole rig was gone. Weird enough but when I tied a new rig I had the exact same thing happen to me a second time.
I gave up on trying to fish that setup and started fishing the hi/low with shrimp and had almost nonstop jacksmelt action, some of these were very big. Definitely a good place if you want jacksmelt. I caught them casting out far mostly. Also there was a loon working the surf area for fish and possibly a couple peregrine falcons came and circled above the bridge for a minute, very cool.
But about the lost rigs, does anyone have a theory as to what would break a sliding rig off above the weight like I described?
I gave up on trying to fish that setup and started fishing the hi/low with shrimp and had almost nonstop jacksmelt action, some of these were very big. Definitely a good place if you want jacksmelt. I caught them casting out far mostly. Also there was a loon working the surf area for fish and possibly a couple peregrine falcons came and circled above the bridge for a minute, very cool.
But about the lost rigs, does anyone have a theory as to what would break a sliding rig off above the weight like I described?
