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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: If I'm Only Gonna Get One... 5/8
« Last post by Tim524 on May 09, 2024, 06:07:35 PM » Quality Croaker, bummer about the line !
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: If I'm Only Gonna Get One... 5/8
« Last post by vdisney on May 09, 2024, 04:30:13 PM »Right on Jeremy, many congrats on your PB
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Variety Hour Day Two 5/7
« Last post by vdisney on May 09, 2024, 04:29:21 PM »owner mosquito hooks have never done me wrong
Same here
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / If I'm Only Gonna Get One... 5/8
« Last post by jrodda on May 08, 2024, 09:22:27 PM »Brought Jared in on the bite tonight. 1700-2000. 5-8mph wind in the face, 1-3' swell. More kelp in the water though. And tons of by-the-wind sailors. And like a dozen dead sea birds! Normally whatever about dead birds but there's obviously something going on so it was sad and concerning.
Early on I hooked a big piece of kelp with the KM and couldn't grab it in the wash. Finally got a hold of it after a couple minutes, the KM popped out, and I felt a weird pain in my finger. Turns out I somehow got kelp lodged under my fingernail...and at the same time my favorite pliers fell off my belt into the wash, never to be seen again.
Switched to a c-rig because Jared piled up 3 in short order. I pulled 20 yards off all my Red Label fluoro spools before this session, but didn't seem to help. First bite, set the hook on a presumed croaker and...whole rig gone. WTF! Immediately threw a tantrum. Jared had some Shimano fluoro to share so I put some of his 12# on for another c-rig. 5 minutes later I hooked up to something I couldn't turn for a minute, and was very glad I had a different source of leader for it. Played it all the way in, narrowly avoiding a big kelp patty, and slid up a donkey of a croaker. New PB at 17.5". Never thought I would break my old 17" record from when I was 12, but here it is!
Worth the trouble of the day.
Proceeded to snap off that leader somewhere along the braid 5 minutes later. Fish Gods Giveth, Fish Gods Taketh Away. In the last year of surf fishing I don't think I had ANY line failures of any kind from any section, and now I'm up to at least 7 failures from 3 different batches of line in the last 3 days. It’s not the guides/rod/reel since most of the breaks are within a foot of the leader knots. Might just buy the shimano fluoro for employee price and move on. Seems good enough quality.
I decided to tie the next KM straight to braid, and do as much standing and talking as walking and fishing. Jared ended the night with 5 croaker and 4 perch, plus a fouled bat ray, to my one croaker. But if I'm only gonna get one...
Early on I hooked a big piece of kelp with the KM and couldn't grab it in the wash. Finally got a hold of it after a couple minutes, the KM popped out, and I felt a weird pain in my finger. Turns out I somehow got kelp lodged under my fingernail...and at the same time my favorite pliers fell off my belt into the wash, never to be seen again.
Switched to a c-rig because Jared piled up 3 in short order. I pulled 20 yards off all my Red Label fluoro spools before this session, but didn't seem to help. First bite, set the hook on a presumed croaker and...whole rig gone. WTF! Immediately threw a tantrum. Jared had some Shimano fluoro to share so I put some of his 12# on for another c-rig. 5 minutes later I hooked up to something I couldn't turn for a minute, and was very glad I had a different source of leader for it. Played it all the way in, narrowly avoiding a big kelp patty, and slid up a donkey of a croaker. New PB at 17.5". Never thought I would break my old 17" record from when I was 12, but here it is!
Worth the trouble of the day.
Proceeded to snap off that leader somewhere along the braid 5 minutes later. Fish Gods Giveth, Fish Gods Taketh Away. In the last year of surf fishing I don't think I had ANY line failures of any kind from any section, and now I'm up to at least 7 failures from 3 different batches of line in the last 3 days. It’s not the guides/rod/reel since most of the breaks are within a foot of the leader knots. Might just buy the shimano fluoro for employee price and move on. Seems good enough quality.
I decided to tie the next KM straight to braid, and do as much standing and talking as walking and fishing. Jared ended the night with 5 croaker and 4 perch, plus a fouled bat ray, to my one croaker. But if I'm only gonna get one...
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Fishing Talk / Re: Kauai Fishing
« Last post by KogaHead on May 08, 2024, 11:36:12 AM »constant 25-35 mph winds in my face 24 hours a day. Damn trade winds are making things tough.
Went 0/5 today in the surf before losing my iron. Trying to cast into that wind and set the hook with a bow in your line seems impossibkle.
Going to try again later and adapt to another style of fishing.
Karma for trying to fish on a anniversary trip
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Variety Hour Day Two 5/7
« Last post by KogaHead on May 08, 2024, 11:32:53 AM »Agree with Squatch
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General Board / Re: Bad Pig Wood Haul
« Last post by Tim524 on May 08, 2024, 08:27:30 AM »Nice trailer, years ago I would have been super jealous. God knows in 40 years I humped my share of "Burning Sticks"
Yep, the Firewood thing is a constant chore but somehow it is satisfying when it's all split and stacked nice and neat, and you know you are good for a few years. Luckily my kids help out too, I'm no Spring Chicken anymore !
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Variety Hour Day Two 5/7
« Last post by Tim524 on May 08, 2024, 06:06:57 AM » The Fish Gods are upset about something, time to evaluate things.
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Variety Hour Day Two 5/7
« Last post by sasquatch on May 08, 2024, 05:27:42 AM »owner mosquito hooks have never done me wrong
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General Board / Re: Bad Pig Wood Haul
« Last post by vdisney on May 08, 2024, 04:20:35 AM »Nice trailer, years ago I would have been super jealous. God knows in 40 years I humped my share of "Burning Sticks"