[Holy Mackerel]

It is nice to get up later, well 5:30AM to get to the launch at dark these days... There was a little bit of fog, saw some of the regulars onshore getting ready, many expressed interest in going north for flatty's, Iceman was out for a quick trip to the 3/4 for tails...

I decided to go north and do some lazy fishin... Halibut! Made perfect greenies at the pier. Decided to start a drift... got bit... FISH ON!!! Turned out to be a leopard shark, which proceeded to tangle all three of my lines! :x released unharmed. Ran into Kurt, we both worked the same area... I got a few more bites, but nothing stuck.

Finally, line started to peel off my reel... FISH ON!! I was getting towed out to sea...

Ended up being a black sea bass about 60 lbs... just a baby. About a 40 minute fight, condensed in this video. Fish released, and swam down with some help from a couple other kayak anglers... It revived faster than I thought, didn't even have a chance to get a good pic, or video of it swimming off.

Video of BSB C&R

Sun decided to finally come out, Kurt and I paddle in to nice conditions, and reflected how lucky we are to live in San Diego.

Chris

 

[Davey G]

awesome stuff AGAIN chris. great pic of the kayak at dawn..

 

[RedPhoenix]

Unfortunately, due to the change in ownership of this web site and the lack of response by the owners to my requests to remove my email address from all administrative-level notifications and functionality, I have decided to remove my posts on AKFF. Thank you for the great times, the fantastic learning experiences and the many many fish. If you are desperate for the old content of this particular post, it is available below base64 encoded and bzip2 compressed.

Red.

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TOP STUFF

 

[milansek]

Thats some great fishing so close to land . I could only wish we had that type of water in brisbane. , milan

 

[troppo]

I had a look at the video. Gee, the fish certainly put a bend in ya rod. I catch cod that bends my rod like that. Yup, they quickly do a few turns around some big bottom-hugging boulder and my rod bends right over when I try and pull em up. Looks like you got a huge boulder up with your fish . . . . Oh heck, that huge thing IS the fish. Well, congratulations.

Another thing about the video I noticed was how flat the water was. Even the estuary I fish has more chop than that. Be great to paddle on.

 

[paffoh]

Amazing, what a crazy looking place!

That kayak looks like a great paddle, might have to do some research on the US scene... really firing over there guys :twisted:

Well done...

 

[JT]

What a great video Chris. I could watch that again and again. Keep em coming!

JT