Well to be like Pinoyfisher, I should have the signature line read:
FIFTY I didn't meet up with Squatch until sunset as I had some plumbing to do back at the house and Steve had a mouse to terminate at his. Steve had a line in the water when I got there and I set up hoping conditions were just fishable, as I had little faith with all the kelp and grass on the beach.
It wasn't 15 minutes after I get a line in the water with a fresh Spanish Mack pinned on when my clicker started singing! It felt very sharky, but had some weight to it. I was almost convincing myself that I had a hammerhead on since it was not being very typical of a Soupfin.
Sure enough, it was a Soupfin and a biggie! 74" Female! (The picture somehow doesn't do it justice for a 74" and it was pretty thick also). It must be nice being big and fat, but most pictures ever taken of you make you look long and slim. lol, I think a head shot next time front on might show a better picture of it.
Not long after and I get a screaming run! It fought just like a leopard and turned out to be exactly that. A 53" female Leppo! (It's been a while since I got a nice Leopard)
Steve then reels in a small Leopard about 2 feet, but he was on the board!
Not long later and I see a big bounce in my rod. I run up to see the line slacking up and I just started cranking in fast as possible with the rod in the sand spike until I caught up with it. SOUPIE ON!
This one was another big fatty! It was only 72", but these pictures came out slightly better than the 74" Soupie. I only had my phone to take pics and forgot to put the flash on as I left my camera at home.
It wasn't too long after that, Steve gets a mighty rip of the clicker and he's hooked up with a nice Soupie! It's funny how those soupie's find a way to locate that weak spot in your tackle, as a few minutes into the battle and Steve's line goes limp, along with his dreams of cancelling one of my Soupies out on the Leaderboard.
Lost rig, so as he was re-tying, I made sure I had a fresh bait out there. I was getting some smaller bites and caught the sucker on a hookset! Another legal Leopard! Didn't measure, but was between the 36"-40" mark.
Steve gets another good hit and it had a great fight with a really nice leopard! Man, in 2 hours of fishing, we were just crushing it!
57" female
The bites started coming in fast and furious now, but the "Other" night crew was replacing the grinners. Lots of corners chewed up by rays and Steve finally get one. Or should I say -1..... Well that gives Squatch only 1 fish for the night now! LOL
Thornback Ray (Haven't seen one of these in quite some time)
So after we started getting swiped by smaller ray bites, we called it quits. Not a bad session for only 2.5 hours of fishing!!!!
We also learned two things last night... Pinoyfisher's Theory that if you catch a Leopard Shark, you won't catch a real shark... went down the drain.
Number 2 was my P-Soul shark list just hit Half-a-Hundo!!!!!
I was hoping for a 7-gill also to get the P-Soul Shark SLAM, but that's a Slam that is not easy to accomplish, nor has it been accomplished yet.
Well, get out there and get some, before Squatch and I hog them up all to ourselves!
Until Next Tide!