Yesterday I had one of THOSE days at Praia da Alagoa! I arrived at the beach around 15:00 – around the point of low tide. As I was setting up my rods, a local fellow told me that in the morning he had landed quite a few fish, seabass, sargo, spotted bass… The ocean seemed very rough, and I could clearly see patches of sandy brown water where the weaves were breaking. It did seem as excellent fishing conditions…
I set up two rods with squid (sardine was still frozen) and one with white clam, and shortly thereafter I had a first spotted bass on the clam… it was a nice enough beginning! But then it all went silent for about 30 – 40 min… I took the opportunity to set up sardines on one rod, kept squid and clam on the other two, so I had all my bases covered.
After some 40min something slammed on the sardine rig, the rod just bent in the stand, I was afraid it would fall out and be dragged away! I ran to it and picked it up, ran into the surf and enjoyed like I did not in a looooong time. The fish was strong, aggressive, more than a few times I had to loosen the drag, watch the weaves and let the fish ride the surf out… At one point it swam across the line of the other rod, so I had to do a bit of acrobatics – all in all it was a very nice and exciting fight. Ended up with a nice seabass.
After that I was almost ready to go home – it simply could not get any better. But the smaller ones started being active as the tide started coming in, so I kept reeling them in… Another seabass, and more and more spotted bass
The end total was 12 fish and loads and loads of fun!
