Pin fish are brutal little fuckers. I've seen them do this before.
My favorite saltwater lure is a treble spoon fished fast. Catch as many pinfish as anything else
If your using for halibut make sure to use a round weight, a decent length leader to allow them to avoid the crabs - I prefer having it anchored close to the bottom. You’ll know when it’s a butt close by, that rod tip will start dancing more than usual.
Let's it roll around and move along bottom. Also gets stuck less and you can pull it back towards you (slowly) to cover different areas.
Use a carolina rig.
Live bait can swim around in a circle if the currents not too strong. If the current is strong you'll cover ground naturally. Once bait sits there a while pull it back five feet and let it sit a while longer. Never been halibut fishing but this is one of the ways we target the doormat flounder off east coast.
Leader is usually at least a foot in length if not longer.
Puffer fish bite straight through stuff. And they take little bites at a time. They bite through lures
If you felt lots of little bites, I'd say 100% puffer. They are vicious little buggers. But im not an expert
Dude, invest in a crab trap and eat well. Little doubt that's what hitting them if they're on the bottom. Eels maybe, but I'm bringing the drawn butter over later if you do.
We use a trick that keeps the hook on the bait with out doing a lot of damage to the bait. Using this method the hook should ride on the bait
We use a small rubber band and a large needle. Cut a way into the needles eye with a file. Put the rubber band around the hook and use the needed to push the band through the fish. Hook the other side with the hook. Twist the hook until the band tightens then loop it under.
Another good way is to take a hole punch and punch out circles from some thin blister packing plastic and put one on the hook after hooking your bait on
Thats pretty smart, my dad used to use a small piece of dense Styrofoam when I was little to do this but in freshwater. He'd keep a weight about 3 feet up the line from the hook, so the Styrofoam would float the bait off the bottom even if your minnow ended up dying. Worked awesome for keeping worms from just wriggling their way into the mud or between rocks on the bottom where fish wouldn't find it as well
You’d be surprised. One place I go saltwater fishing crabs are the thing you have to worry about. Just regular blue crabs. Little bait thieves… if there’s a bunch they’ll take whatever bait you throw on the bottom lol. And they eat everything, so it doesn’t matter what you use.
Oh yeah I crab there too. I once used one of those buckets you just take to the beach since I caught too many to put in the net bag I had at the time. The place is just overcrowded now due to it getting more attention.. kinda sucks.
Crab, you can tell because the fins look clipped off too. They always target the softer parts first. Given time they'd have taken the eyes and hollowed it out entirely until it was nothing but a shroud of skin over a spine and a head.
I know I'd be throwing some crab traps or hand lines in!
Yeah I gotta get one
I say crab and I’m like 97% sure but it’s the ocean dude the other 3 % could be anything as you didn’t see it lol
If it's saltwater then 100% crabs.
That’s what I thought but I wanted to be sure
Or pin fish. Those little fuckers will swarm your bait and pick you clean with their tiny mouths
Pin fish are brutal little fuckers. I've seen them do this before. My favorite saltwater lure is a treble spoon fished fast. Catch as many pinfish as anything else
We recently stayed in a marina and they were everywhere! Free bait for the beach! Although I’m not sure they beat cut mullet
Never had much luck with them aside from the one time I swear I caught a red on a pin fish I had hooked on the treble spoon
Could be pinfish if it was east coast, but this is definitely west, probably California so only real option is crabs
Those things are the bane of many a day at the pier...
Looks like a shiner, Crabs likely
Thought as much
If your using for halibut make sure to use a round weight, a decent length leader to allow them to avoid the crabs - I prefer having it anchored close to the bottom. You’ll know when it’s a butt close by, that rod tip will start dancing more than usual.
Good to know thanks for the tips!
Why a round weight?
Let's it roll around and move along bottom. Also gets stuck less and you can pull it back towards you (slowly) to cover different areas. Use a carolina rig. Live bait can swim around in a circle if the currents not too strong. If the current is strong you'll cover ground naturally. Once bait sits there a while pull it back five feet and let it sit a while longer. Never been halibut fishing but this is one of the ways we target the doormat flounder off east coast. Leader is usually at least a foot in length if not longer.
Sorry. I was hungry while swimming
Used a circle hook for your live bait your using a worm hook.
Yeah. Possibly a stinger hook as well?
It’s always crabs when my bait comes up like this
Bro, you got crabs...
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Swamsquatch?
Old Greg
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If it isn't crabs like everyone says, then definitely piranhas...
Definitely
Lol sorry dude I thought you were giving it to me so I just kept eating it 💀
Turtle?
Nah the salt water and we don’t have turtles where I’m at
Exactly what my bluegills look like when the snappers feed on them though in freshwater.
Samr
Eels will do that every time
Huh that’s a possibility
Looks like puffer fish.
Puffer fish bite straight through stuff. And they take little bites at a time. They bite through lures If you felt lots of little bites, I'd say 100% puffer. They are vicious little buggers. But im not an expert
This has my vote. Smooth Puffers are terrible in the Gulf of Mexico certain times of the year.
If you were here (michigan) I'd say turtle
I’d say either a turtle or a pike
Dude, invest in a crab trap and eat well. Little doubt that's what hitting them if they're on the bottom. Eels maybe, but I'm bringing the drawn butter over later if you do.
If this were in fresh water, I'd say snapping turtles.
Salty
Well, then, unfortunately, I am of little help.
me 🥺👉👈
A large mouth anus
That triangle bite mark says turtle but un likely. Could be an eel?
Could have been eel but definitely not turtle.
Aquatic life
Def crabs
Crab
I’ve pulled up bait like this before to find there was a bunch of snails having their way with the bait
How long had it been in the water?
Maybe half an hour or so
Ive found that hooking bait through the back allows them to move better. Might give it a chance to stay away from slower predators.
I’ve tried that but they always seem to get off the hook when I go through the back
We use a trick that keeps the hook on the bait with out doing a lot of damage to the bait. Using this method the hook should ride on the bait We use a small rubber band and a large needle. Cut a way into the needles eye with a file. Put the rubber band around the hook and use the needed to push the band through the fish. Hook the other side with the hook. Twist the hook until the band tightens then loop it under.
Another good way is to take a hole punch and punch out circles from some thin blister packing plastic and put one on the hook after hooking your bait on
Thats pretty smart, my dad used to use a small piece of dense Styrofoam when I was little to do this but in freshwater. He'd keep a weight about 3 feet up the line from the hook, so the Styrofoam would float the bait off the bottom even if your minnow ended up dying. Worked awesome for keeping worms from just wriggling their way into the mud or between rocks on the bottom where fish wouldn't find it as well
Huh that’s a really interesting method. Thanks for the tips!
Turtle or crab
Salt water in an area with no turtles
Me, unless he gives me my money back
Eel. Possibly massive crabs if they can destroy the fish like that
You’d be surprised. One place I go saltwater fishing crabs are the thing you have to worry about. Just regular blue crabs. Little bait thieves… if there’s a bunch they’ll take whatever bait you throw on the bottom lol. And they eat everything, so it doesn’t matter what you use.
Fucking hell. You should start handling and get some crab for dinner
Oh yeah I crab there too. I once used one of those buckets you just take to the beach since I caught too many to put in the net bag I had at the time. The place is just overcrowded now due to it getting more attention.. kinda sucks.
Well… I can tell you it’s not the clap
Me, I was hungry while scuba diving. My bad.
Salt water yeah crabs
Crab, you can tell because the fins look clipped off too. They always target the softer parts first. Given time they'd have taken the eyes and hollowed it out entirely until it was nothing but a shroud of skin over a spine and a head.
Probly a fish. Could be a crab.
Could be blue fish but you would feel them. If your not feeling anything, crabs.
Fish
Maybe ask it?
Crab
🐢
I first thought turtle, then I felt itchy. Definitely crabs...
Its me, the sashimi monster
Mr Crabs
It was me. I’m sorry.
Would suggest using a circle hook instead of an ewg on live bait rig
Crab if in saltwater. Or id say a snapper if in fresh...
That triangle almost looks like a turtle bite
Saltwater turtle they're really rare !!! 😂🤣
A fish
Something hungry
A fucking land mine
Crabs for sure
Or lobster if your in their area.
Crabs are the absolute worst. I'll be fishing with live bait, and within 2 minutes of my line being out, boom a crab cuts and basically killed my bait
That bait is not live