West Bay

[onefishtwofish]

Fishing has been tough over here to say the least. One lady fish yesterday. No activity at all. Can only fish in the afternoons.

Went out today and hit some more spots. No joy. We are heading across the bay. See birds diving and get excited. So we make a big loop and drift back into them excited to see what is feeding on the bait. I make my first cast and get broken off on the bite. Re rig and hook up on a hard fighting fish on the next cast. Nephew hooks up at the same time. Water is dark and we get them both to the boat and they are SAILCATS. Wth? We unzip them and cast again thinking surely they were bycatch. Ummm, nope. We got
On schooling sailcats. We just refused to believe that was what it was and had to make a few more runs at the birds and bait. Caught about 5 more apiece before we were believers. Nothing but cats. Never had that happen before.


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[DixieReb]

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade! The bigger sailcats fillet out good and are tasty, had some last night.

[fishdux]

We had a similar thing happen a couple weeks ago but they were blowing up on topwaters! They were in a crazy frenzy.

[Juan]

Had the same thing happen in PC's East Bay several times... Never kept or eaten one but it's fun catching them... Not so much fun wiping the snot off your line though.

[red_yakker]

I once threw a cast net on a school of mullet that turned out to be a school of sail cats. I must've had to pick 30 out of the net

[fishdux]

I once threw a cast net on a school of mullet that turned out to be a school of sail cats. I must've had to pick 30 out of the net

Could only imagine. Slime for days!!