High tide lined up with last light. Seemed like it would be a good time to soak some baits. My brothers buddy was at the house, saw me loading up and had his rod in his truck so I grabbed a couple extra macks and he tagged along. On the sand 30mins b4 sunset and had baits in the agua 20mins later with only a few stragglers still surfing. Within an hour I had a legit knock down and reeled up a shredded head with all the meat bit clean off. Good sign but sucks she missed the hook. Toss out some filet mignon and within 5mins I get what appeared to be a bass bite that managed to pull the weight loose. Pick the rod up feel some tuggin and definitely a fish swimming with the bait and weight so I swing and sure enough there's something wiggling on the hook, felt like a pissed off decent sized bass. Crank it in and it comes rollin out the suds and white wash and my buddy Alex says, "Oh it's a smooth hound!" I go to grab it and say damn it's got some big eyes, and nose and wtf? Those are teeth bro! That's a soup dude! Top ramen edition. But hey target acquired, I wish I woulda took a shot of the 10/0 in his mouth but I got it out pretty quick to keep from completely breaking his fragile little face and jaws 😳
Lil bugger definite had some lil prickly future fangs 😅
Grinner Grinage
I was pretty stoked and hopeful that his mom was in the area! We rebaited a few times and got a few critter and a decent sharky bite when Alex's rod starts screamin and he's on with what seemed to be the right kind but I think he mistook the initial wing slaps for head shakes! But he was stoked to be bendo with his first surf fish no matter the type! He proceeded to get his ass handed to him for the better part of 15mins b4 I managed to grab his 1st surf bat!
Not huge but a solid 40" surf bat! We soaked couple more soaks until 1145 and headed for the hood with only a couple more questionable bites.
Good to see they're breeding around the county, hopefully next sesh I can run into her mom and talk about her daughter's new lip piercing 😉
