Steve and I met up at Cell Block 7 to some decent conditions. The evening started with a shooting star that shot almost the entire way across the sky. My first bait cast and WHAM! A 100 pound mound of loose grass and kelp. Second cast, a 400 pound double lump that was barely worth the time and effort to clean off my rig.
Steve was only getting small bits 40 yards away and I think for the first time ever, said to move down and set the spike next to his.
It worked as there were very few weeds here. I got some critter bites before getting a REAL bite! Once again, it dropped it and never came back. <sigh>
We continued to get critter bites, but never stuck one... THEN all of the submerged salad I was catching when I first got there, found us and we were just in un-fishable conditions. We called it early as it was not even worth making a test cast at this point. At least I got to see a real bite, but that is little solace for my back pains in trying to pull all that kelp in and save my rig.
While unpacking, we got a visit from a very friendly and local cat. Steve wouldn't even shake my hand to say goodbye after petting it, lol. I'm assuming it's allergies related, but I wouldn't rule out Ailurophobia.
In any case, I hope someone gets out to capitalize on the few remaining weeks in the surf casting competition. As of now, Mike has a resounding lead over the competition. I also have been tagged by Adobe and none of my photoshop crack is working any longer. I hope to get the shark list updated real soon.
Thanks for reading.
