I'm thinking about going out in the Brentwood/Bamberton area in the next couple of days and wonder if anyone has been having any luck lately. My wife and I met at the old Brentwood Inn in the early 80's (I worked in the Oak and Barrel, she in the Brig) so we had all day to fish, and we did. We used to do well along the cement plant shoreline, Willis Point and McCurdy Point, and she caught what may have been her all time biggest spring jigging just south of Willis. We never got it in the boat due to having a slightly inebriated neophyte trying to net the fish tail first in a small trout net...she cried about that for some time and never quite forgave him for his blunder so I'm glad it wasn't me!
We still use only Peetz rods and reels, although we abandoned the planers and 2 pound balls when downriggers came along, and still have our original reels on the mantel. Her dad refurbished his 6" Peetz counter reel and custom built Peetz roller rod (still loaded with stainless steel wire line) and presented it to her at her birthday last year. It now resides on the wall in our kitchen, and brings back memories of chugging across the inlet in a Brentwood Inn rental boat every time we look at it.