Specks are HOT right now.

So, with the action like it has been in the bay this whole week after dark, I took a solo trip last night to try and put on a clinic with the specks on the pier. I stopped at LB and picked up 5 dozen shrimp on my way home from work. Got to the pier an hour before dark and the specks were already starting to stack up. I fished the shrimp 2' under a boat monkey cork. EVERY shrimp in that 5 dozen landed me a trout. Not too great at math, but that means just from the live shrimp I had put 60 trout over the side of the pier. After running dry on live bait I threw everything and the kitchen sink and couldn't get a strike. The bite never died I just couldn't find the right bait. Tried the baits from nights past and still nothing. Then I remembered I had an old Rapala original floating minnow. BINGO! It was on like donkey Kong. I would pitch out and retrieve it with a bump bump pause cadence. Every cast I had a speck. I honestly must have caught over a hundred trout trying to grind out my last 3 fish to get a MS limit but I couldn't do it. 90% of the fish were 12-15/16". Between people tossing their cast nets where we trout fisherman were working the fish and the last fish I caught shook the front treble of the Rapala minnow DEEP into my thumb, I decided the 3 fish I needed were just not meant to be. It was still a blast weeding thru so many fish for my 12 and very rewarding.