Guess who's back B) well it's been awhile since I had anything to post from the surf.. fished Sat night with Mike for a few hours , he had to bail b4 11 to pick up the kids and the action was slow to say the least. Got some reliable second hand info on another spot. Went back out Sunday evening with my buddies Greg and Luke. Met Luke on the sand at 535, Greg showered up shortly after. Made a few perch for bait on meatballs of jelly bean soft shell sand crabs. 3rd bite on the perch rod is an absolute screamer, literally dumping line off my mini 500 size reel with all 7lbs of drag cranked, 130yds flew off and I cupped the spool for dear life b4 having no option but to break off b4 losing all my 15lb braid. 99% sure I hooked a mid 40s batray or the mother of all SFC. Something has 6ft of 12lb floro and a dropper looped drop shot hook souvenir.
Luke and Greg each caught a perch so we started soaking chunks of Uber fresh money baits around 730. Within half an hour Greg's rod loads up and he's on, few mins later I tail a solid Leo for him
https://imgur.com/a/RB87nL2Send her back and within 20mins of recasting, Luke's on. Solid run and then she stormed the beach and we thought he lost her, until he caught back up to it in the skinny. Few mins later I tail another solid Leo.
https://i.imgur.com/4zyCVrl.jpegSend her back and 10mins later Greg's on again, after a good fight and nice runs, through the shore pound slides yet another chunky Leo.
https://i.imgur.com/A2r6F9Q.jpegI'm bracketed in and starting to think about moving north of Greg since he's got the hot stick so far. But literally 5mins later, after I lit up an offering to the shark gods, I'm looking at my rod tip light, and I see that tell tale smack and my line starts peeling off slowly, then the drag starts screaming! I Grab the rod and lay into her, solid connection, head shakes, tail slap, that's her boys! She was pissed, I could barely see through the mist, and it was completely dark by now but I could see commotion out past the break, and feel the line up in the water column. Then she jumped and I knew it was the right kine B) yep she's a real one, Greg and Luke were ready after a 6-7 min battle up past Greg's rod, I get her through the shore break and she starts rolling up the leader, but that actually helped get her through the skinny as she couldn't get her tail free to get back through the wash. Greg gets a shot at a tail grab and she's landed!!! Luke's never caught or seen a soup in person so he was stoked to finally see one in the flesh.
Been 2yrs but damn it never gets old
~71"
https://i.imgur.com/CLK7WVq.jpegBusiness end
https://i.imgur.com/kbIooua.jpegEveryone rebaited and send fresh chunks into the dark misty night. Didn't take long after we all got settled, and my adrenaline rush started to subside, we see Luke's rod in the distance doin the grinner dance, he runs to it and gets to but the fish had screamed at least 85 yds off and wasn't slowing down. He buttons down the drag a bit and she's still screaming line off his daiwa. She finally slows and he turns her after a solid 250yd run, but proceeds to storm the beach after a lil side to side run into my line x) I clear the tangle and he's back pulling her through the skinny, she gets rolled up in the leader in the shore pound and I get her wrangled. None of us can believe how many fish are already on the sand at this point. And we've only been soaking for like 90mins 8/
Solid 70" female
https://imgur.com/a/BvTgEKWWell amidst the chaos of damn near back to back fish I had to recast from clearing my line outta Luke's fish. Greg looks at his rig and his lines slack, he reels forever to try and get tension and reels in a smashed perch head. Could a been another fish if we weren't busy with one already.
We all recast and start sending pics of all the fish to each other, within 20mins Luke's on again with another absolute tank! Not nearly as much of an initial run but she was screaming line and thrashing near the surface for part of the fight. After a solid fight He manages to keep her outta the other lines and gets her into the skinny . Surf had died down for a bit, and she just washed into the flooded flat beach as the tide was almost peaked, and you could see the definite dorsal fin size difference and she was a thick one. As her belly hit soft sand in inches of water I dragged her up the beach a bit out of the waves.
~69"
https://imgur.com/a/BvTgEKWWell i knew none of us was leaving anytime soon, so we all rebaited or recasted and just waited to see who was gonna be next to get bit ;P Turned out to be Greg's turn. After 3 soups in a row we were all kinda disappointed it was Greg's 3rd phatty leopard of the night:/ crazy how easy it is to tell the fights apart when you've gotten so many in, in one night.
https://imgur.com/a/BvTgEKWTurned her loose and sent another offering into the air for the shark gods. Seemed greedy at this point, but I was still sitting at one fish on the board lol
Well it took a lil longer than the previous 7 fish but I got another run and set into something not as big or strong as my last bite. Drag was a lil buttoned down from the soup fight, but I made short work of a solid 48in Leo.
https://i.imgur.com/sx2axii.jpegWe fished another hour or so with only one farmed screamer that Luke never got a hook into. Dude was on fire , coulda likely had a 3 soup night if the last bite woulda stuck. That was around 1015 so we stayed til 11 cause none of us wanted to go home lol I'm definitely gonna be back later this week to see if I can find another one while the grunion are running.
Rastafargone B)<==*~~
