Went back to the spot with high hopes. Took my cousin Mike (Hippie Long Beard) to see if I couldn't get him on a shark , for the first time in nearly a decade. 1st cast with the light rod I get a drag ripper.
https://i.imgur.com/2SI7ueg.jpegThen I made the the right kind of baits
https://i.imgur.com/lF5pabR.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/GSCmk3g.jpegAs I'm cutting up the perch for my cousin I see Luke bendo on a a screamer.
https://i.imgur.com/UgXMUwJ.jpegGet my cousin situated and start rigging my shark rod up. Didn't take long for him to get bit. Wasn't fighting as hard as a soupfin would but definitely a shark. After a few mins he slides the 1st Leo of the sesh into the skinny and I tail his 1st shark in forever B)
https://i.imgur.com/IUvcg1p.jpegBecause Science🤪
Then It went quiet on the big rods, aside from a few missed short runs/bites, til well after dark. But the light rod fishing was WFO all sesh. It was kinda ridiculous, you got bit within 30secs of your crabs hitting the water nearly every cast.
Around 930 Greg gets bit and he's on, again not a soup , but a better sized Leo slides up the sand as the tides rushing in.
https://i.imgur.com/DJBJwRE.jpegSend her back, check and change baits. Lil after 10, my cousin gets freight trained. He hadn't hooked something this powerful from the surf in long time. After a few minutes of back and forth I see a 45+in Bat in the wash, as he's trying to get it turned around in the skinny, the hook pulls :/
Get another bait out and light up an offering to The Fish Gods. As we're shooting the $#!+ Passing the offering around, I see my rod bounce and run over to see my line slack. I crank for my life but can't catch up, so the classic reel and running hook set is brought out of the archives and that was the trick, suddenly I'm on and it's ripping line off my reel! Yuuuuuup that's the right kine, she goes airborne in misty darkness. I almost handed it off to my cousin, but I'm tied with Andre so I needed this to break that tie 😋
We go back and forth, under my cousin's line and back towards my rod holder after a solid fight, Greg and Luke tag team tail grab this healthy Thiiiiick soupie:)
~71" perch chunk
https://i.imgur.com/bUf7FHU.jpegI was stoked to get another one for the list, that's 19 for the list, my 20th all time.
Change baits, get reset and I look at my phone to check the pics. It's almost 11pm now and I gotta get up at 5 to workout b4 work at 7, so I told my cousin I'd let him have the next fish on my rod if it got bit again b4 we had to leave at midnight.
20mins later Greg gets bit, but turned out to be a Guitar that wanted some perch.
https://i.imgur.com/rhNfH7Z.jpegLuke was next up but it was just another shovelnose.
https://i.imgur.com/EPaoTaX.jpegUnfortunately that's all the action we saw. Greg and Luke stayed til 2am said the grunion started running lil b4 midnight and Greg landed a soup just b4 1am.
~69" grunion & perch combo
https://i.imgur.com/DxggerY.jpeg Mike (Pinoyfisher) went out last night, hope you got more than just that Leo bro 🤙🏽
Rastafargone B)<==*~~
