I knew the beaches were going to be crowded, but a wind event was supposed to happen so I didn't take the boat to work with me. Figures, the weathermen were wrong once again....
Steve and I had to do some walking to find anywhere to fish when we first got down to the beach. It quickly became a shovelnose fest, but at least they were some half way decent ones that put up a decent fight.
The other cool thing was we saw a bunch of bat rays and leopard sharks feeding in the surf. It was frustrating watching them swim around out baits and not take them.
We moved down to where we originally were going to fish to find a swarm of surfing and spear fishing groms. It took a while for things to clear out, but when it did, the fishing got good.
The shovelnose were not here thankfully, but we had some decent action for only a real few hours of fishing.
I farmed a nice fish which most likely was a bat ray from all of the line he was stripping. I finally get on the board with a 3+ foot leopard.
Steve one upped me with a bigger model leopard with a spaghetti tag! Leopard shark #83 at 54" long. He submitted the data online.
He then had another quick hit which turned out to be a nasty little 7-Gill! This thing had some attitude!
It turned out to be a nice night and I still took the trophy since Squatch zeroed himself out with some minus one fish... the dreaded Thorny Back Ray.... oh wait... that may have been me that zeroed out.
