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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Saturday Evening 5/2

« on: May 03, 2015, 09:35:53 AM »

 Spent the day doing the usual barn and family things, watching the surf report to see if the huge swell was going to materialize.

 The cams looked good, so around 630 I jumped in the truck and took a ride. Tide was on the rise and my first choice was out. Nowhere to set up already.

 Down the road to second choice and it looked like it would hold up. The weeds on the beach weren't too bad so things looked promising.

 Got my gear set up, and for the second time in two trips the beacon attracted a child who had to hang out and help me fish. I let him hold the rod butt while the rod was in the holder. Man, was he stoked. Way less annoying with questions, and when mom and dad told him it was time to go, he thanked me for letting him help.

 Weeds were a non issue, there were some bigger sets coming in that made me relocate my gear eastward a couple times, but overall very fishable.

 I even had "The Man" roll up on me and tell me he thought it looked fishy. Thanks for the positive vibe.

 Sat around watching my rod for a couple hours. Not a bite, not a stolen bait. Decided to move 50 yards north.

*

 Set my rod holder, cast out and went to grab my gear. Just as I get my hands full, the clicker starts to sing. Damn, that was quick. Drop my gear and run faster than any of you would believe and grabbed the rod.

 Fish On Bro. Short, uneventful fight, and I have a 3 foot range bat on the sand.

 No pic since my gear was down the beach and it was just a little guy, so I let him go, then went to finish moving my gear.

 Sent another bait out that sat awhile and got ganked with a couple clicks of the clicker.

 Gave it another hour for nothing else and headed for home.

 Missed the 6am call to action cause my old ass just aint up to it.










*Old sunset picture added just to make the report look nice.

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Tackle Talk / MOVED: Couple of GWs Spotted

« on: April 30, 2015, 04:41:07 PM »

This topic has been moved to Fishing Talk.

http://prehistoricsoul.com/forum/index.php?topic=611.0 I just don't see this as tackle talk.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Summer Solo Session 4/28

« on: April 29, 2015, 11:40:01 AM »

 Headed down to check a spot I like. It looked good, except for the human factor. Some of the humans looked pretty damn good too.

 Not much to do, but to pester Tom with some "structure" pics and conditions reports.

 He suggested the bar. I concurred.

 $27 in margaritas and tacos later, I hit the beach. Feelin pretty good.

 Beautiful sunset and a bonus 3 foot leopard.

 

 Lots of bait stealers.

 Saw the best shooting star I've ever seen. Low in the sky red fireball for at least 10 seconds. Very cool.

 Finally got one of the bait stealers to stick.



Out of bait, time to go.

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General Board / Summer time

« on: April 28, 2015, 04:27:25 PM »

Off work at 230. Sitting in the bar til the people get out of my way to fish. Definitely a love/hate thing. Going to be tired at work tomorrow.

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General Board / Never fishing MB again.

« on: April 25, 2015, 05:59:59 PM »

http://youtu.be/ctkkn1qSYKw

F'ing pods are everywhere.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / At least I'm used to it. 4/24

« on: April 24, 2015, 07:57:33 AM »

 Had a couple days off to take my girl to the horse show, so I decided it was an opportunity to fish late.

 Met up with Ray who was already at the scene and he reported a small leopard. Thats encouraging, so I set up and got to soaking bait.

 A little later, I see Ray battling something that was really taking him for a ride. Well, not really, looked more like a bait check.



Little more time goes by and I get a good bend in the rod, grab it just in time to feel a pop as the fish comes off. Crap.

Then Ray gets bit again. Says its heavy but not running too much. That can only be one thing.



This one was pretty amped up on the tail grab. 95", nice fish.

By now Ray has gotten a taste of the start work at 6 life and asks how much longer I was staying. Probably still make fun of us old guys though. I was ready to stick around a lot longer, but the dark clouds that blocked the view of the space station passing over started to rain on us. Not a hard rain, but no sense getting soaked, so I packed up and we split.

Keep this stuff up and my wife will be calling you "Stupid Ray."

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Just another Tuesday night. 4/21

« on: April 22, 2015, 10:40:35 AM »

 Well, it was not just any Tuesday.

 With Tom out, I made plans to check out a few beaches and assess conditions. Drove some extra mileage and ended up at the second beach I checked. Oh well.

 Got there well before sunset and made a few casts to occupy my time. A couple kids decided they were going to sit and wait until I caught a fish. At least a half hour. Ugh. Question after question.

 Ray showed up, got his gear together, and on his first cast, probably five minutes in, he gets bit.

 He totally Phonged me. I've been there for a couple hours and he shows up and nails one right off. Used to that when its corvina, but not so much with the bats.

 It was a pretty nice one at 51"


 Some time passes, I'm still not bit, and Ray is on again. Dang it. This time he hangs up on some reef, I follow the line to see whats up and there is his bat on the other side of the rock. Ray frees his line and I grab the leader to get the fish closer to shore for the grab. All of a sudden the line snaps and his ray is a free swimmer. Luckily it didn't notice and I was able to do a snatch and grab and land it, saving his rig as well as the fish.

54" this time.



Ray doesn't like to take pics with bats. He won't smile.

 I had enough and made a move to the other side of Ray and cast out. Soaked a little while and decided to do a little housekeeping, tighten up my line, check for weeds, etc.

 As I held the rod in my hand, I feel a nice bump. Then another stronger one, so I set the hook. Fish on.

 Ray comes over to see what is going on and runs over to land my fish. Finally. Been a little slow for me.



80"
Snapped a few pics and sent it on its way.. It seemed like a clean release, and the fish appeared to swim off well, it was on the sand a much shorter time than others. But, Ray looked over 15 minutes later and saw it on the sand, washed up. We drug it into the water to revive it and after some anxious minutes, it swam off. We kept an eye on the shore the rest of the time we were there and didn't see it again.

By this time the sea monsters were beginning to show up.



We decided to pack it in. Then, just at the buzzer, on his last bait, Ray is on again.

He even had his backpack on.



68"

Guess he doesn't like pics with sharks either. Smile Ray, this is fun.

Maybe he felt bad because this one had a bite out of it.



Anyway, it was a great night. Sorry you couldn't be here on fishing Tuesday, Tom, but there will be more. Take your time and heal up.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Last Chance 4/19

« on: April 20, 2015, 04:48:43 AM »

 Busy social and family weekend had me off the sand. Sunday evening was my last chance.

 Weedy. Just on the edge of fishable. If it wasn't my last chance I would have split.

 No bites.

 Horse show next weekend, so I might not even get one chance.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Putting in the time. 4/12

« on: April 12, 2015, 05:02:06 PM »

After a late Saturday night, I checked my phone and Josh had hit me up for an epic bat experience in the morning. I was skeptical I would make it.

Woke up to texts asking if I was going, then saying he was going back to sleep. I hit the road, told Josh bro do the same and we met at the scene of the carnage.

Put several baits out but the bite was off. I got a small bat, Josh got a smaller one.

At least I won.

Maybe next time.

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Classifieds / Looking for a rod.

« on: April 08, 2015, 07:19:42 PM »

Got a good deal on a Cardiff 400a. Just seemed like I needed one. Looking for a rod to go with it.

Things I imagine doing with it:
Occasional bass, calico or sand.
Shallow rockfish.
Maybe megabaits type iron for cuda or bonito.
Drift for halibut?

Planning to fill it with 30lb braid and short mono topshot of say 20lb.

What you got that you used to love but have left behind for the latest and greatest.
Not looking to drop over a hundo.
Thanks. 

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Love the Middle Coast 3/2/315

« on: March 28, 2015, 10:27:14 AM »

 Last day to fish, unless I leave late and risk worse traffic tomorrow, so I made the best of it.

Average size today.


Toad of the day.


Exotics.


Full body shot.


Calico.


Junior model.


Scavenger.


Froze my but off in the fog with 3-5 foot waves and 57 degree water. It was great fishing until the kelp ran over my hole.

Just might risk traffic for another session like this.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Central Coast 3/26-27/15

« on: March 27, 2015, 12:13:54 PM »

I was supposed to be at a horse show this weekend so I asked for days off. We canceled the horse show, but instead of canceling the days off, I made a road trip to see my folks up in Pismo Beach area.

Hung out for awhile then decided to go check out a spot I like to fish.

I stopped at one beach and put three handfuls of sand into the strainer. When I washed the sand away, I was able to pick and choose a limit of crabs, and discard at least another limit and a half.

Took the crabs to my spot and looked over the cliff. More people than I have ever seen on the beach. Still plenty of room to fish, so down I went.

I allowed myself 10 crabs for the short session.

The 10 crabs resulted in 3 missed hits, 2 pulled hooks, and 5 fish. Not bad. Plus there was some good scenery.


Went back to the folks for dinner and beers, got up, and headed back down for an early session.

Fishing was much slower this morning, but I did get some nice perch and a random junior rockfish, maybe a cabazon, but I don't see many of them so maybe not.






One of my favorite things about this spot is that I regularly see a pair of sea otters in the surf. Feeding, frolicing, ottering of all manner. Its pretty cool. This was as close as I have ever seen them come in, but they still are tiny in the pic.



Thats them in the wave on the inside of the surfers.

 Might just get out for an afternoon fishing and scenery session later.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Sometimes it just doesn't work out 3/21/15

« on: March 22, 2015, 03:48:53 PM »

Met Tom at a likely looking spot. Never fished it before but it looked fishy. 

Set up and sent some baits out. Really nothing happening until  I hear Tom yell and then the clicker screams. Line just peeling off. Feels like a big bat. It finally turns, I gain some line, and then it takes off parallel with the beach. It turns again, I start to gain line, and then it's all over. Pulled the hook. Damn.

Only bite all night but it was a good one.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / MOVED: Hookup Saturday Night?

« on: March 20, 2015, 04:56:21 PM »

This topic has been moved to Fishing Talk.

http://prehistoricsoul.com/forum/index.php?topic=468.0 Not a report so I'm moving this.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Lesson Time Again 3/17/15

« on: March 17, 2015, 10:35:44 PM »

 Tuesday night. Fishing night. Checked a few spots. The latest and greatest was weedy and looked to get worse on the rising tide. Bail. Next stop, well, drive by, looked much the same, so I just kept on keepin on. Bought some gas and a bite to eat while I considered my options. I decided to check out a spot I'm trying to become familiar with and it looked weedy, but one day it will work out just right. OK, decision time. Tried a old favorite of mine from back in the days before the big game kick.



Gorgeous evening. Surf a little bigger than expected, but not much in the way of crowd, so I settled in, and waited. People finally stopped swimming as the sun went down, so I moved to the area I wanted to target. And waited.

Then I get bit. Litttle four footish leo. Feisty though.



Bait up cast out and wait. Check bait, rebait, you all know the routine. No more bites and its getting late for me. I set the ten minute timer, usually its 15, but  I had decided to mix things up. I cast to a different area and wait.

The timer didn't have a chance to go off, but the clicker did. Wow. Didn't expect that.





Really didn't expect that. Nice male, just over six feet. Tempted with bonito from the 3'+ sets.

Todays lesson, it doesn't hurt to mix it up and try something new.