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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Heart-Ons (9/28)
« on: September 29, 2021, 10:07:06 AM »
Should've etched an ever so slight MOM in that heart 
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Just Like Old Times 9/7/2021
« on: September 08, 2021, 10:27:57 AM »
Welcome back, ya freakin fish catchers!
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Fishing Talk / Re: Resuming Tuesday Reports Starting September
« on: September 01, 2021, 08:34:28 AM »
Hope it's on for you guys, hope it turns on for us. It has been...SLOOOOOOOWWWW!
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Tiny Report VC 8/24
« on: August 24, 2021, 08:14:57 AM »
Seems about right for our neck of the woods. Dag nabbit, thinking of shifting a bit more north since south always seems to be bat ray central.
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Investigating Old Haunts (8/22)
« on: August 24, 2021, 08:13:33 AM »
Nice session! That's either the same butt, or they both got the same camo from the surplus store!
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General Board / Re: Last trip before school starts
« on: August 20, 2021, 08:57:40 AM »
Rack some fish!
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: FIRST 3 DRONE CAUGHT FISH!!! 08/15
« on: August 18, 2021, 09:01:56 AM »My back is hurting just thinking about pulling on a bat 400 yards outThankfully it was a bait ray instead of a bruiser!
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: FIRST 3 DRONE CAUGHT FISH!!! 08/15
« on: August 15, 2021, 10:54:22 AM »
The dropper loop ray didn't surprise me but the float rig ray kinda did, I just always assumed they had to use their bodies to create the suction they needed but I guess the old adage of assuming is correct here!
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Freshwater Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Another Sewer Monster, and Hello to an Old Friend 08/13
« on: August 15, 2021, 09:17:14 AM »
You definitely should! Plus, who knows what people have dumped in those pools over the years! What makes these fish special as well is that a group of us in High School used to catch the local stockers and throw them in here, now over a decade later they have become solidly entrenched!
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / FIRST 3 DRONE CAUGHT FISH!!! 08/15
« on: August 15, 2021, 09:09:06 AM »
So we headed to our old bat ray/shovelnose beach where the bait guys said they had seen lots of Ts while catching bait. Picked up some lively chunky dines, no macs which the bait guy seem genuinely sorry he could not provide, but it is what it is. Building a good relationship and reputation with the bait guys at CISCO's has proved worth it. Hit the beach a few minutes before greylight, saw some other's with less gear to unload making their way out as we pulled up. Started setting up and we see them coming back with a nice striper, thing was high 20s or even 30+ should've taken a pic but my phone was packed in. This thing looked like it would have been surf caught up north or in NJ. Promising to say the least since I planned on fishing a float for threshers and a dropper loop for gamefish.
Well the seagulls here were utterly ravenous, chasing the drone with the bait and starting conventions around the floats. Lots of dolphins playing and splashing and even messing with the seagulls. That was my first catch, a damned seagull, luckily the circle was easy to remove but I'm sure he was injured getting dragged 300 yds and going through the washing machine surf that this spot has. Ended up putting a small egg sinker on my leader of the float to keep the bait down and hopefully out of seagull reach. Pat quickly became discouraged by the seagulls and switched to a tri swivel. He got the skunk off and the pleasure of a long crank on this BAT RAYYYY!!!!! I didn't like where this was headed.
Current here was absolutely ripping which made fishing the skinny virtually impossible so the critter rods were ditched pretty early on. All in all it was pretty slow in general, and perhaps those people were smart for taking their nice striper and calling it a day. After a few hours and many lost baits I get a ripper on my dropper loop. I immediately knew it was a ray, but hey skunk off.
It was now past noon and our hopes of catching something nice were beginning to wane as our sleep deprivation kicked in. Just long soaked the float as we piece meal packed it in. As I was cranking the float in from 400 yards (as fun as it sounds) it felt weighty, but no fight, and this beach has almost no kelp. Maybe it was a small tail hooked thresher, I could only hope. In the skinny I couldn't see any sign of a fish and then there she was, my disappointment was immeasurable and my day ruined.
80% joking, I was happy to catch fish, but the two things I don't wanna catch when droning are bat rays and kelp. So the journey continues but hey the drone got us some fish in conditions that would have been unfishable without it so that's a definite plus! Next time! Anyone with success targeting threshers tips and tricks would be greatly appreciated, also what are any of your experiences catching suspended Bat Rays, maybe that weight was enough to put me at bottom?
Well the seagulls here were utterly ravenous, chasing the drone with the bait and starting conventions around the floats. Lots of dolphins playing and splashing and even messing with the seagulls. That was my first catch, a damned seagull, luckily the circle was easy to remove but I'm sure he was injured getting dragged 300 yds and going through the washing machine surf that this spot has. Ended up putting a small egg sinker on my leader of the float to keep the bait down and hopefully out of seagull reach. Pat quickly became discouraged by the seagulls and switched to a tri swivel. He got the skunk off and the pleasure of a long crank on this BAT RAYYYY!!!!! I didn't like where this was headed.
Current here was absolutely ripping which made fishing the skinny virtually impossible so the critter rods were ditched pretty early on. All in all it was pretty slow in general, and perhaps those people were smart for taking their nice striper and calling it a day. After a few hours and many lost baits I get a ripper on my dropper loop. I immediately knew it was a ray, but hey skunk off.
It was now past noon and our hopes of catching something nice were beginning to wane as our sleep deprivation kicked in. Just long soaked the float as we piece meal packed it in. As I was cranking the float in from 400 yards (as fun as it sounds) it felt weighty, but no fight, and this beach has almost no kelp. Maybe it was a small tail hooked thresher, I could only hope. In the skinny I couldn't see any sign of a fish and then there she was, my disappointment was immeasurable and my day ruined.
80% joking, I was happy to catch fish, but the two things I don't wanna catch when droning are bat rays and kelp
. So the journey continues but hey the drone got us some fish in conditions that would have been unfishable without it so that's a definite plus! Next time! Anyone with success targeting threshers tips and tricks would be greatly appreciated, also what are any of your experiences catching suspended Bat Rays, maybe that weight was enough to put me at bottom?
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Freshwater Shore Fishing Reports / Another Sewer Monster, and Hello to an Old Friend 08/13
« on: August 13, 2021, 09:40:47 PM »
Went to go pick up some odds and ends for thresher fishing again tomorrow. Asked Pat if he wanted to hit up the spot I located near my house and we decided to give it an hour. Well it was a pretty eventful hour, I hooked up to the nice grade fish I caught a week ago and farmed it like a pro.
https://youtu.be/B4hlZsQJcuk
About 15 minutes after Pat is on, not much fight until it starts getting shallow, then it made it's size known, guy goes and outdoes me at my own backyard spot !
Also here is a pic of my first tilapia I caught earlier in the week at Lake Balboa (reclaimed water pond).
Gonna try an old producing beach we haven't fished in years, and most recent intel I got was that our T hopes and dreams may come true. Fingers crossed!
https://youtu.be/B4hlZsQJcuk
About 15 minutes after Pat is on, not much fight until it starts getting shallow, then it made it's size known, guy goes and outdoes me at my own backyard spot !
Also here is a pic of my first tilapia I caught earlier in the week at Lake Balboa (reclaimed water pond).
Gonna try an old producing beach we haven't fished in years, and most recent intel I got was that our T hopes and dreams may come true. Fingers crossed!
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Experience, NVC 08/08
« on: August 10, 2021, 10:05:23 AM »
I wish it had only been a year and a half for me Verne! I'm going on 3 or 4 years without a solid grinner 
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Experience, NVC 08/08
« on: August 09, 2021, 06:44:57 PM »
I will find them, and I will kill them. (sans the killing part)
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Experience, NVC 08/08
« on: August 09, 2021, 10:37:17 AM »
So we switched it up and did a night time grinner hunt. Chopped salad was present but not too much of an issue, at least a couple hundred yards out. Dropped two chunks of Stingray on tri-swivel rigs and I pinned a perch Pat caught on a float rig. Pretty slow day with Pat scraping out two BSP and the stingray and BSP I sent out all went untouched, save for something that was munching on the outside of the disk. Fished from 2PM to 11PM. As we were packing up I finally got to witness a proper grunion run, thousands of the little guys invaded the beach and while it was awe inspiring to watch since I have never witnessed one so large, it made me wonder, WHERE ARE ALL THE DAMN PREDATORY FISH?! I technically didn't get skunked.
Looks like it's really time to try new spots as the honeyhole this spot used to be just doesn't seem to produce anymore. Another nice day at the beach and witnessed something pretty cool so I'll take it.
Looks like it's really time to try new spots as the honeyhole this spot used to be just doesn't seem to produce anymore. Another nice day at the beach and witnessed something pretty cool so I'll take it.