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Originally Posted by Sammy
Fish the drop-shot setup in the lagoon.
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I've never tried this technique before - any suggestions on places I can learn more? (other than random Google searches, which is of course what I am going to do right now...)
Thanks for all the suggestions. I went out last night around 6:30 until dark, and paddled from the main lagoon over to the "middle" lagoon. I tossed a root beer scampi the weeds and rocks by the YMCA to no effect, then put on a Krocodile and paddled into the current under the RR bridge, drifting all the way down and under the 5 slinging the Kroc around the whole time. There were a half-dozen shore fishers with lines out, and I saw a small (3' across) dead bat ray floating around. No bites, tho.
Then I headed back across the main lagoon to the public beach (where the Carlsbad Boat Club shack is located) and tossed the Kroc around the rock piles there and up and down along the shoreline where I saw bait and feeding going on (by what I don't know). Again, no more lovin'...
When it got too dark to legally fish, I headed back to the little goat trail I hiked in on and towed the little yak back to my rental car and headed back to my hotel with a smile on my face despite not having any fishy action.
The rod and reel seem like a good setup - too much "anti-reverse" on the reel for really long casts (felt like it had heavy grease in it or something) but for the price it seems like a good compromise setup that will probably handle a bigger fish reasonably well.
There were some guys in a small aluminum skiff that said they'd had a couple short WSB in the main lagoon, but pretty slow otherwise.