Tuesday Nights... you know the deal. Work.... Bar..... Beach....
I love it getting dark early and we had a lot more fishing time in today and less time at the bar.
Nice incoming tide.... Little Surge or current.... Little bit of grass but very manageable.
I was first to get a bite, but it felt very shovelnose or ray like. It popped off half way in, but I had my suspicions. A few casts later, suspicion confirmed...
Big Shovelnose. Pretty cool to see some larger units as they have pretty much gone missing down here the last few years.
Squatch then gets the right kind of hit! Big bendy bait grab and no doubt a nice Sevengill! He fights it all the way to the breakers and either the waves rolled it or the hook was just caught behind a tooth and never got a good enough bite into its face... but it got free and went bye-bye. Ugh....
A little while later and Steve was to get some redemption. His rod gets a different type of hit, but definitely the right kind of shark! As he's battling it in, we see it's a Soupie. I had a bitch of a time wrestling it up on the beach as it was green and ornery. I ran over to wipe my hands dry on the rag while getting the tape measure and pliers when I see my rod doing the dance and I'm on! Definitely shark, but nowhere near the size of what Squatch caught. My first "non-keychain" leopard in quite a while! Got the double picture.
A very decent number of bites and not many in the way of bass or lobster. Seems like the typical players were all out to play today. Everything was swimming with everything today!
Then my rod loads up and line starts peeling. I immediately thought Soupie. A really good fight and I was expecting to see a medium sized soupie roll up in the surf, but instead it was a big old bat snot! That's another thing I haven't caught in the surf in a while! Pretty depressing since I was hoping for a shark, but it was a good warm up.
We checked the clocks and it was later than we thought so we packed it in as the bites also seemed to slow with the dropping tide.
We saw a bunch of emergency crews ripping bye and wasn't sure what that was all about, but when i got home saw it was the Condos in Solana Beach that were on fire. My folks stay at the ones right next to that when they visit every now and then. Terrible fire, but pretty good night of fishing.
I have some updates to the shark list to do. Verne: Soupie. Jeremy: (2) 7-gill. Squatch: Soupie
Maybe there will be more later this week?
