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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Trippin Tuesday (literally) 3/17/15

« on: March 18, 2015, 02:13:06 PM »

Nice fishing with you and Paul last night. Sorry to hear about the rod snapping. (hopefully, you can get a free replacement) I'm sure I'll see you on the water again soon.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / SD Sharking Party 3/17

« on: March 18, 2015, 11:59:34 AM »

I don't have much time to write a long report right now but I will post up some pictures from last night's Sharking Party. The plan was to meet up with Joe and Mike to do some surf sharking but Mike couldn't make it since he was on "lockdown" at home. The Party started at 6pm and lasted until 9:30ish. Joe and I were pleasantly suprised to see Dave and Paul show up around 6:30ish. The four of us had a good spread of long rods going down the beach. Joe was the first one on the board with a nice 58" Leo at 6:00ish.

Then as soon as the sunset Paul was on with a shark. At first we were all thinking Leo but as he pulled the fish to shore Joe see's the distinctive tail of a 7Gill. (Joe said some choice words since he has been itching to get the 7gill off his bucket list) The shark was close to 7' long. Maybe Paul, Joe or Dave can chime in with the exact measurement. (It was big)

During Paul's hook up my new spinning set up goes off and after a lengthy battle I pull in a nice 52" ray. (Not what I was targeting but it beats a skunk)

(Side-by-side shot of the shark and the ray)

Sorry about the crappy shots but my phone takes terrible night shots.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: SNBFVIII San Diego Style! (3/7)

« on: March 08, 2015, 08:09:58 PM »

Another great Bat Fight. It was fun getting to see everyone in one place. The icing was team SD taking home another win. (P.S. Next time I'll tell my buddy to slow the boat down so everyone can get a better view of his girlfriend's Ta-tas)

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: VC heartbreak 3/6

« on: March 06, 2015, 09:32:19 PM »

Sorry about the break off...at least you know they are there.

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Freshwater Shore Fishing Reports / Re: 2-27 Dixon trout report

« on: March 03, 2015, 01:02:03 PM »

Thanks for the Dixon report..Brian. It can be frustrating with them trout. What time did you see the most action?

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: SNBF warmup

« on: March 01, 2015, 01:35:58 PM »

Nice session.. Joe. Glad to see you got a couple to go yesterday. Sorry Mike, you'll get a big one soon.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: SD Batting Practice Homerun

« on: February 27, 2015, 03:23:42 PM »

Quote from: Tim524 on February 27, 2015, 02:17:06 PM

Didn't your rod take a bath a few Bat Fights ago as well

Yes, I learned from that experience and now carry extra paints and socks for that very reason.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: SD Batting Practice Homerun

« on: February 27, 2015, 10:13:27 AM »

Quote from: Pinoyfisher on February 27, 2015, 09:02:12 AM

Either Joe is good luck or I'm bad luck! Sweet score Binh, those 50"ers are beasts for sure! I wish I was able to make it out, but happy wife... happy life.

Sorry we missed you last night Mike. I don't think your bad luck, we've been fishing at the wrong time.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / SD Batting Practice Homerun

« on: February 26, 2015, 11:46:39 PM »

Sometimes your best fishing nights come when you don't expect it. I had the opportunity to fish tonight right after work, which is a change from the late night fishing sessions I'm normally use too. I also had the oppotunity to fish with Joe aka "Jaws" for the first time. He hooked me up with his awesome homemade cannon ball rigs. After sending out my baits Jaws and I are talking and I see my rod going into the water. After a mad dash to grab the rod I reel in this little 28" bat.

After examing why my rod took a swim I realize the sand was really soft and my rod holder just got pulled over. I am pretty sure the reel was in free spool with just the clicker on but I guess there was enough drag to pull over the rod. After changing my wet socks and paints I rebait with a nice mac head and send it out again. No more then 5 minutes later I get a nice run on the same rod and reel combo. This time I'm thinking this fish has a little more weight on it but not much since it's coming in pretty easily. Little did I realize this big girl was just swimming towards me. Once she saw the shore she took off down the shore. Thank goodness that Joe was there he cleared all the lines from the water. Everytime this fish got close to shore she would just peel line off my reel at will. After a good 15-20min tug-of-war she starts to tire out and I'm able to lift her off the bottom. Joe grabs her and she sprays water all over him. I was shocked at her size when Joe brought her up the sand by far this was the biggest bat I had the opportunity to land. After a quick measure she taped out at 54" and she was supper pregnant. I wanted to get a sense of her weight and she was easly over 150lbs.