TWO: Have Fishbites handy when bottom fishing.

ONE: Fishbites do work for bottom fishing, and for one of my personal favorites, flounder. My takeaways from this little experiment.

A lot of these were the blues and trout that I never hooked up on, but some of it was also bottom fish like croaker and the occasional pigfish, spot, and black drum, most of which were very small. Then, during some of my slow time where I wasn't doing much, other people were catching fish. during times were no one else seemed to be catching much, I was still catching fish. Every fish I caught was on the bottom hook. One setup had bloodworm on bottom, then shrimp on top hook, the other setup was vice-versa. I was using two setups, both with two-hook bottom rigs. I caught 6 of the 8 keeper croakers on the green/red bloodworm, and 2 of the keeper croakers and the 2 throwback flounder on orange shrimp. However, I was the only person that caught any flounder, and by far, the most keeper sized croakers (ranging from 3/4 lb to 1 1/2 lb). I did not catch any of the taylor blues or speckled trout (most of which were keeper sized, but season is closed), of which I saw about 15 of each caught. I also caught approx 10 throwback croakers. I also caught two small throwback flounder, right around 12 inches each. I ended up with 8 keeper croakers, the largest was 1.5 lbs.

I figured since fishing reports were consistently showing all kinds of fish being caught at the Little Bridge over the past few days, along with nothing but bluefish on the piers and surf, this would be the perfect time to try Fishbites. With the exception of about 30 minutes of jigging with a white bucktail and Gulp setup when I first arrived(of which I had no hits), I fished strictly using Fishbites. I spent 10 hours there, experimenting with Fishbites, the synthetic baits, which I had never used before. I spent the day yesterday fishing the Little Bridge (Melvin Daniels causeway) in Nags Head.

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