Fished last weeknd and brought a friend out who has been wanting to go for quite some time. I’ve been reluctant due to past history of tactics and spots being shared but figured he’d endured enough time of asking.
He had a penn 50 stand up rig to yak and I had my 12/0 (smallest in my shark arsenal besides casting gear).
Got him rigged up with a double hand size chunk of ray and within 200 yards of shore in hopes of a 7gill. I had a whole yellowtail that I cut in half and rigged up on a float. A friend who kayak fishes said he had a mako checking him out less than half a mile off this beach so I sent it out as far as I was comfortable with high hopes.
Long story short. The Yt got hit but was shredded and by small teeth. I think it was actually a thresher. My buddy got two sharks on the same bait in the same area. Both small whites and we got them in and out as quickly as possible. The firs one I was almost sure was a black sea bass until it breached 20ft in front of me. Didn’t take long to get the hook out with the Arc Dehooker.
Estimated at 6.5 and close to 8ft. Didn’t measure either of them, obviously.
Kaipo joined us later that night and helped clear lines for the second fish.
I told my buddy not to tell people about how or where we got them but he was there two days later with some LA dudes and they got a BSB. So looks like it’s back to
Me and Kaipo now.