A few Specks ....... - Boating & Fishing Information and Reports Forum

Ice Cream Man · #1 (**permalink**) 11-03-2009, 06:07 PM

When Speck fishing today with All Day Ray ........
The day started out foggy & cold until we found some fish ........
Tried topwaters, a few sinking MirrOlure's but the fish were picky & only wanted soft plastics ........
When thru a few different kinds until the perfect combination of jig head weight & plastic was found .......
Had a lot of short Flounders & a few Blues ...........
All Day Ray caught most & lost a few fish, while I sent most of my time with the net - he schooled me again ......... I am much better with the net anyway .........
8 Specks the biggest was 20" .......

Ray had a great time, more then a few laughs & enough fish for a couple of meals ......... ICM

Capt Rick Hiott · #2 (**permalink**) 11-04-2009, 07:59 AM

Can you tell us more about the color and style of plastic they were hitting?????????????

(Or is that secret information)

Have you guys tried the MirrorDine lure yet? I like the black and silver color #21.

Ice Cream Man · #3 (**permalink**) 11-04-2009, 04:39 PM

Capt. Rick ...... we tried MirrOlures MR 27-EC , MirrOminnow 19MR - silver, STTR-808 ( big favorite ), 52 RT ( Rainbow Trout ) Rapala Slash Bait - ghost......
1/4 oz. jig heads when to 1/8 oz. several different soft plastics, curly tails, stick baits, trout killers, gulps minnows with curly tail, a lot of different colors & shapes - anything that looked like a glass minnow was the ticket ......
It was trial & error all day ....... ICM

Capt Rick Hiott · #4 (**permalink**) 11-04-2009, 09:05 PM

Ha-Ha-Ha,,,,Ive been doing the same thing here.
Do you have a problem with the small blue fish?

Ketchman · #5 (**permalink**) 11-05-2009, 09:11 AM

They look like trout. Are they fresh or saltwater? Nice looking bunch of fish anyway. We have Cutthroat and Dolly Varden (Bull Trout) that you can catch in salt water here or fresh when they enter the streams to spawn, but they've outlawed catching Dollys. In Alaska most people don't even keep Dolly's, they're sort of a scavanger and in the char family I believe. Nice fish ICM

Capt Rick Hiott · #6 (**permalink**) 11-05-2009, 09:57 AM

Saltwater trout.

Ketchman · #7 (**permalink**) 11-05-2009, 01:09 PM

Thanks, I looked up specks after asking the question and found a lot of different things specks stands for on the internet. I didn't know if Specks was a slang term or what but then found what I was looking for. Appreciate the pic,,,,,nice

jellybear · #8 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 09:36 AM

Thats a nice catch there Ice Cream Man!,We have been pulling a few out of the surf here on Topsail ,We just need the water to cool dow a lttle more.

Libra · #9 (**permalink**) 11-20-2009, 10:21 PM

Makes for a good day. Thanks for the report ICM. Now, the big ?,,,,some idea of where to try if you were going tomorrow.?

Ice Cream Man · #10 (**permalink**) 12-12-2009, 06:42 AM

Libra....... Sorry for the late reply........
MBI Rock Jetty has been producing big Specks & lots of Spikes - it's been hit or miss lately - sometimes to rough to fish & always crowded, so we never go ........
Like to fish places less traveled ........

We have Speckled Trout fished several more times since this post & not had any keepers - all Spikes ( small Specks ) ........ sometimes as many as 25, most recent trip only 3 Spikes ........

Wed 12/9 big blow had them feeding & blew in dirty water ( did not fish ).........
Thurs 12/10 shut them down ( we did fish ) only 3 Spikes & worked hard for those, clean moving water was the ticket ..........

Reds are showing up & Blues are still around ......... caught a few 2#'s Blues on TT's, Catch 2000 & topwater when we were Speck fishing the other day .......

Hope this helps ........ ICM