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Hit the wall with my housemates for a couple hours this evening.  Weather was great, calm seas and 2-3 feet of vis.  Moved down to my favorite rocky outcropping and started chucking the 5" Offshore Angler twintail shad in watermelon/chartreuse.  Started getting the usual: lots of bites but no hookups!  I knew that the fish were just little blacks, but after a few misses I got fed up and decided "I'm gonna catch these little farts." So I tied on my 'black killer': 3" Kalin pumpkin/chartreuse grub on a 1/4 oz leadhead.  Casted this for the rest of the evening and pulled out five blacks in the 8 to 12 inch range, kept the 12 incher to add to my grass rockfish dinner tonight.  The grub was working great as long as it wasn't fouled up with eelgrass.  The stuff was a pain in the arse today, since 4 out of 5 casts were messed up when a little piece of eelgrass stuck to the hook.  I guess that's one reason why weedless plastics are so cool .

Housemates were throwing various weedless shads and whatnot, and were getting bites but no hookups.  If it weren't for the eelgrass screwing up most of my casts I bet I would've NAILED all those little blacks.  Every time I got a bite they'd hook themselves on that open hook.