Well, I only planned on heading down to watch Squatch and Josh fish... right! I grabbed my 8lb long rod (I have a 10 pound limit, so I stayed under my limit by 20%) and met up with the boys down at the bay. Josh pumped up some small shrimp for me and I was ready to go.
First cast and I get a yellowfin croaker. Steve said, "That's the freshest bait I've seen in a while... throw it in my cooler". I can't complain, I just got Squatch a nice 3 baiter for the surf! I had a few more bites, but could not move fast enough to get to the rod and that was fine with me.
We were all sitting around shooting the sh!t, when I saw a bobber pop up next to Steve's line. As I watched it, I noticed it was moving against the wind and current. It was picking up speed, so there was definitely a fish attached! I made a few casts to try and snag the bobber, but my rig wouldn't grapple with the bobber or loose rig. Everytime I started to tighten up on my line, the fish would take off and pop my line off the bobber line. The bobber started to sink out of sight and I made one blind last hail mary cast to catch it. I waited for a few minutes hoping it would intersect my line and sure as hell it did! Got him!
I reeled in this bobber, attached to a sabiki rig, attached to some split shots, attached to s whole squid attached to a round ray. What will the bucketeers think up next!?!? LOL
Steve then hooked up with a decent bat ray that acted like an 80 pounder rather than a fish half that size. Josh still waited...
The Love!
Just then my long skinny rod went off and it was definitely a bat. I thought it was a bass at first since it swam at me, but soon showed it's true colors. Unfortunately, we had a group of people wanting to swim in front of us and that bat was heading straight towards them like a freight train. I could only picture the Huntington Beach great white that was hooked by the guy on the pier and hit that dumb surfer paddling towards it. I thumbed my spool and busted it off. Better off though as I'm not sure my back would have liked a long fight on the small long rod with that thing, but I felt the fun of the long runs again and that was money.
My back was done, so I headed home leaving the Dynamic Duo there to duke it out for Cinco de Mayo Supremecy. I got home to see Josh finally got on the board at the quitting time buzzer. All in all, not bad. Not great, but not bad. The water was quite warm and it was a bit windy/chilly out there for conditions for those who want to know. I'll put the lame pics up later, but it feels good to get a report up again.
Thanks for reading.
