Jackpot Jimmy
07-28-2010, 04:30 PM
Back in March when my dad and I paid a visit to our friends in Dana Point, one of our old friends, Mike Shaw, had just printed up fliers about his two day trips that he schedules twice a year on the Fury. I always knew he put them on, but I never got the chance to go on one. Got some inside info on who was going and what to expect, and after my overnight trip for the lingcod opener got cancelled due to weather, I decided to go on it, and I was one of the first ones to sign up. My dad wouldn’t be going with me on this trip, as he can’t be on a boat for that long.
Flash forward to July. A week before the trip, I saw that the Amigo got 22 yellows on the second day of their two day trip, so that had me pretty optimistic. The day before the trip was to leave, I went shopping for some extra “insurance” that I usually don’t carry in my box – fluorocarbon. I’m sure glad I brought it. I also made a call to my friend Jeanne who lives down in the area to see if she wanted to meet my dad and me for dinner. She already had plans, but she invited us to where they were going, which was Harpoon Henry’s, a harbor side seafood restaurant, to celebrate our friend Roger’s birthday. Cool deal!
Day “0”
I woke up early as I usually do before a trip that leaves that night, and begun to put fresh line on some of my reels. I would take six rods on this trip – 12 pound test for bass, 15 pound test, 20 pound test, 30 pound test, 40 pound test, and 50 pound spectra with a 30 pound top shot. Next thing was to go out and get a card for our friend Roger. Then, it was time to get all my gear packed up, and we left the house at 3pm.
Traffic was not so good, but we made okay time, arriving at the harbor at 4:45pm, having 45 minutes to spare before we would all meet for dinner. We passed the time talking to an old friend who we haven’t seen in three years – that was pretty cool. Then, we walked a short distance over to Harpoon Henry’s, and sat down to dinner.
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/014-20.jpg
Fish and Chips
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/016-11.jpg
Ahi Tuna Salad
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/017-14.jpg
Dinner was pretty good and we spent time sharing a few stories and laughs…then it was time to say goodbye and head down to the boat. Being around 7:15, I figured not many people would be in line…well, I should have known better with the group going on this trip, so I quickly got my stuff out of the car and got in line. I said hello to a few of my friends – mostly weekday regulars who I fished with a lot over the years. One of the guys was my friend Mike, who everyone calls “Big Hair”. He used to be a full time deckhand on the Fury when I first fished on it with Captain Andy Ridderhoff at the helm. Now he decks on it part time, and I asked him if he was working, and he said, “If I was working, I’d be at home sleeping for another hour!” Cool, another great stick on the boat! While waiting to board the boat, I fiddled with my camera a little bit and snapped a few pictures.
Old Fury Sign…see the patch of wood that has “949” on it? Underneath it is the area code “714” when that used to be the area code down there!
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/018-6.jpg
Dark Fury Picture
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/019-5.jpg
Brighter Fury Picture
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/023-4.jpg
The Pride in from their Music/Booze Cruise
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/024-2.jpg
Sometime around 9:30, we boarded the boat. Most people had to take two trips to get their gear on board, but I packed kind of light and got all my gear down in one trip. Having a lot of people ahead of me in line, I didn’t get a choice spot for my tackle box, but I still found a pretty good spot. Finding a bunk was a hassle also, but I found a pretty good one on the third level on the starboard side by the stairs that didn’t require mountain climbing. Afterwards, we headed out to the bait receiver and loaded up on some nice looking mini sardines and bigger sardines. Meanwhile, Second Captain Jason “Luca” Archard welcomed us aboard and introduced us to the rest of the crew, which would be Captain Rick Doesburg, with Tyler, Mike, and Steve as our deckhands. He went over the safety equipment aboard the vessel and the game plan for the trip. We would be fishing Clemente both days. He also explained that it would be a little lumpy on the way over, so I was sure to make a stop at the head before I hit the bunk. Shortly after leaving the harbor, I went to sleep with dreams of catching yellowtail…
Day 1 at Clemente
I woke up right at grey light, and quickly rigged up my rods. Nothing going on in regards to the exotics, so I threw plastic for a while and had a ball with the short calicos. Then, the bonito started to come through, so I started soaking sardines on my 15# with 20# fluorocarbon. We caught a few bonito for a while, and then we started hooking the right kind. There was one flurry when a couple of people were hooked up, and that’s when I got bit...I let it run for a few seconds, put the reel in gear, let the rod load up, and set the hook…FISH ON! I fought it for a couple minutes and brought it to gaff…a nice fish about 10 pounds! I quickly retied and casted out another sardine…this sardine swam down deep and it was a couple minutes before I got another bite…this time, the fish was “gumming” the bait. I put the reel in gear, and once again, let the rod load up, and I set the hook…ANOTHER FISH ON! The fish took me to the starboard corner, and I brought it up, and Tyler gaffed it for me…a little bigger fish, perhaps a contender! Nice!! So, I retie again and cast another sardine out, and I get hooked up. Then, the line starts pouring off of my reel, and I’m thinking either it’s one pissed off yellow or a knothead got a hold of whatever it was. Then, thinking it was a yellow charging the boat, I wound the line in quickly, only to wind in the head of a nice bonito. I was a little relieved that it was a big bone and not a yellow.
After that, the knotheads pretty much stole the show…I think we got maybe one or two yellows after that. We tried fishing in vain for the yellows throughout the morning, but none were to be found. Ricky said we would be heading down the island to fish bass and come back and fish the yellows for the afternoon bite.
Breck and Shaw chatting it up…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/shaw1.jpg
Stephanie and Breck waiting to fish…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/shaw2.jpg
Folks Relaxing up on the Sundeck…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/shaw3.jpg
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/028-1.jpg
I think we hit one spot on the front for bass before going around back. On the way, we passed the Toronado, Sea Horse, Truline, and Amigo. Anyways, bass fishing was pretty good with nice fish being taken on sardine and plastic.
My Big Hammer has seen better days…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/033-1.jpg
We then proceeded around Pyramid Head only to be greeted by some pretty snotty conditions, but we still tried it.
Pictures on the Move…
The Ladies on the Trip
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/025-1.jpg
Big Hair cutting up the avocados for the Taco Bar Lunch!
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/026.jpg
Avocados
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/031-1.jpg
Tyler with lunch before he went on his sleep shift until the evening…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/027.jpg
The Ladies and Shaw
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/030-1.jpg
Looking snotty coming into Pyramid Cove…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/029.jpg
We anchored up along the kelp, and even though we were swinging around like a yo-yo in the wind, we were catching some nice bass out of the kelp. While anchored up, lunch was served. It was a full taco bar with pork, beans, lettuce, tomato, onion, cheese, avocado, and great salsa. There was plenty of food for everybody to get seconds, or even thirds! Meanwhile, we were pulling some quality calicos out of the kelp.
Me Fishing for Calicos
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/shaw4.jpg
After a while, we were pretty much over the snotty conditions, so we went back around front for another shot at the yellows.
Hans flying his “kite” in the wind…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/shaw5.jpg
By this time, we were the only sport boat at this part of the island, as all the others went home. The fish were marking well on the sonar, but they never came up to bite. To make things worse, the knotheads were even more horrendous than the morning. They were so bad, that my friend Breck was throwing a surface iron, and he accidentally snagged one of them in the hip, and had to “donate” the jig to it. After the struggle with it, the dog actually came back to the boat! With the knotheads so horrendous, I decided to fish my mint and white Tady C, and I was rewarded with a nice big bonito that looked to be about six or seven pounds. Big Hair was fishing right next to me and he hooked a yellow that took him to the stern, but, unfortunately, the fish managed to get away. After that, the sea lions stole the entire show, and we backtracked down the island to see if weather improved in the cove.
Pictures on the Move…
Afternoon Move
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/032.jpg
The Gang enjoying their shrimp…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/034-1.jpg
MORE SHRIMP!!!
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/035-1.jpg
Breck and Capt. Rick in matching hats
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/shaw6.jpg
Two of the Greats…George King and Harry Hamamoto
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/036-2.jpg
Shaw with his drink…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/037-1.jpg
Pyramid Head
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/038-1.jpg
Better Weather
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/039.jpg
As you can see, the weather was much better, but when Ricky wanted to anchor up, he noticed that there was a breeze coming off the island, so we continued on to find a better spot. We finally settled in an area that looked pretty good. Soon, however, the wind returned, and we swung around like a yo-yo. I decided to try for a sheephead, so I broke out my bag of shrimp that I brought aboard. Oddly enough, I wasn’t having so much luck on the shrimp. Just then, one of our deckhands, Steve, pointed out a little live squid in the well. I quickly pinned it on and dropped it to the bottom. I got bit right away, let it eat it, and I set the hook and reeled it in. Luckily I was using my spectra, and it did its thing while I reeled the nice fighting fish in. I was thinking a nice big goat, but I was surprised to see this…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/041-1.jpg
This was definitely my personal best whitefish, weighing in at 4-1/2 pounds. Nice! Well, I fished the bottom for a little bit longer and pulled up some legal sheephead, and then I went back to fly lining sardines. By this time, Ricky wanted us to conserve the bigger sardines for the yellows the next day, so we switched to smaller hooks and the smaller sardines, but we still caught some nice calicos on them.
By this time, most people were done fishing and were sitting in the galley, so for the short time remaining at the kelp line, the crew got to fish a little bit. Some more nice calicos came up, but then it was time to settle in the cove for the evening.
Before dinner, it was time to settle the jackpot for the day. Tyler pulled out the five biggest yellows, and one of them was mine. My fish was the last to go on the scale, and down my fish went, and up the other fish went! All right! Jackpot Jimmy Strikes Again!!!
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/044.jpg
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/049.jpg
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/070.jpg
I took some other pictures also before dinner…
Cindy with her yellow
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/060.jpg
Mike with a Nice Yellow
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/056.jpg
After jackpot was settled, it was time to sit down to dinner. The cost of dinner was $13, and it included a mixed green salad, your choice of chicken or steak, baked potato, vegetables, and dessert. Dinner was awesome and we all shared some stories and laughs.
Jason cooking dinner…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/075.jpg
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/078.jpg
Everyone eating away…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/077.jpg
Stories by Ed Booth
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/080-1.jpg
Crew Getting Dinner
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/079.jpg
After eating a great dinner and dessert, I went outside and rigged up a dropper loop to do a little raying. I set my rod in the corner on clicker and took some pictures of Tyler and Mike cutting the yellows.
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/089.jpg
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My Two Yellows
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After taking some pictures, I wound in my line to check my bait, and up came a weird looking specimen. Tyler identified it as a Sarcastic Fringehead, and he said it was the fifth or sixth one he’s seen caught this year. To me it looks like the cross between a lizardfish and a lingcod.
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Cool, new specie for me to add to the list! After that, I got no love from the rays, so I decided to turn in…
Flash forward to July. A week before the trip, I saw that the Amigo got 22 yellows on the second day of their two day trip, so that had me pretty optimistic. The day before the trip was to leave, I went shopping for some extra “insurance” that I usually don’t carry in my box – fluorocarbon. I’m sure glad I brought it. I also made a call to my friend Jeanne who lives down in the area to see if she wanted to meet my dad and me for dinner. She already had plans, but she invited us to where they were going, which was Harpoon Henry’s, a harbor side seafood restaurant, to celebrate our friend Roger’s birthday. Cool deal!
Day “0”
I woke up early as I usually do before a trip that leaves that night, and begun to put fresh line on some of my reels. I would take six rods on this trip – 12 pound test for bass, 15 pound test, 20 pound test, 30 pound test, 40 pound test, and 50 pound spectra with a 30 pound top shot. Next thing was to go out and get a card for our friend Roger. Then, it was time to get all my gear packed up, and we left the house at 3pm.
Traffic was not so good, but we made okay time, arriving at the harbor at 4:45pm, having 45 minutes to spare before we would all meet for dinner. We passed the time talking to an old friend who we haven’t seen in three years – that was pretty cool. Then, we walked a short distance over to Harpoon Henry’s, and sat down to dinner.
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/014-20.jpg
Fish and Chips
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/016-11.jpg
Ahi Tuna Salad
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/017-14.jpg
Dinner was pretty good and we spent time sharing a few stories and laughs…then it was time to say goodbye and head down to the boat. Being around 7:15, I figured not many people would be in line…well, I should have known better with the group going on this trip, so I quickly got my stuff out of the car and got in line. I said hello to a few of my friends – mostly weekday regulars who I fished with a lot over the years. One of the guys was my friend Mike, who everyone calls “Big Hair”. He used to be a full time deckhand on the Fury when I first fished on it with Captain Andy Ridderhoff at the helm. Now he decks on it part time, and I asked him if he was working, and he said, “If I was working, I’d be at home sleeping for another hour!” Cool, another great stick on the boat! While waiting to board the boat, I fiddled with my camera a little bit and snapped a few pictures.
Old Fury Sign…see the patch of wood that has “949” on it? Underneath it is the area code “714” when that used to be the area code down there!
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/018-6.jpg
Dark Fury Picture
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/019-5.jpg
Brighter Fury Picture
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/023-4.jpg
The Pride in from their Music/Booze Cruise
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/024-2.jpg
Sometime around 9:30, we boarded the boat. Most people had to take two trips to get their gear on board, but I packed kind of light and got all my gear down in one trip. Having a lot of people ahead of me in line, I didn’t get a choice spot for my tackle box, but I still found a pretty good spot. Finding a bunk was a hassle also, but I found a pretty good one on the third level on the starboard side by the stairs that didn’t require mountain climbing. Afterwards, we headed out to the bait receiver and loaded up on some nice looking mini sardines and bigger sardines. Meanwhile, Second Captain Jason “Luca” Archard welcomed us aboard and introduced us to the rest of the crew, which would be Captain Rick Doesburg, with Tyler, Mike, and Steve as our deckhands. He went over the safety equipment aboard the vessel and the game plan for the trip. We would be fishing Clemente both days. He also explained that it would be a little lumpy on the way over, so I was sure to make a stop at the head before I hit the bunk. Shortly after leaving the harbor, I went to sleep with dreams of catching yellowtail…
Day 1 at Clemente
I woke up right at grey light, and quickly rigged up my rods. Nothing going on in regards to the exotics, so I threw plastic for a while and had a ball with the short calicos. Then, the bonito started to come through, so I started soaking sardines on my 15# with 20# fluorocarbon. We caught a few bonito for a while, and then we started hooking the right kind. There was one flurry when a couple of people were hooked up, and that’s when I got bit...I let it run for a few seconds, put the reel in gear, let the rod load up, and set the hook…FISH ON! I fought it for a couple minutes and brought it to gaff…a nice fish about 10 pounds! I quickly retied and casted out another sardine…this sardine swam down deep and it was a couple minutes before I got another bite…this time, the fish was “gumming” the bait. I put the reel in gear, and once again, let the rod load up, and I set the hook…ANOTHER FISH ON! The fish took me to the starboard corner, and I brought it up, and Tyler gaffed it for me…a little bigger fish, perhaps a contender! Nice!! So, I retie again and cast another sardine out, and I get hooked up. Then, the line starts pouring off of my reel, and I’m thinking either it’s one pissed off yellow or a knothead got a hold of whatever it was. Then, thinking it was a yellow charging the boat, I wound the line in quickly, only to wind in the head of a nice bonito. I was a little relieved that it was a big bone and not a yellow.
After that, the knotheads pretty much stole the show…I think we got maybe one or two yellows after that. We tried fishing in vain for the yellows throughout the morning, but none were to be found. Ricky said we would be heading down the island to fish bass and come back and fish the yellows for the afternoon bite.
Breck and Shaw chatting it up…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/shaw1.jpg
Stephanie and Breck waiting to fish…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/shaw2.jpg
Folks Relaxing up on the Sundeck…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/shaw3.jpg
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/028-1.jpg
I think we hit one spot on the front for bass before going around back. On the way, we passed the Toronado, Sea Horse, Truline, and Amigo. Anyways, bass fishing was pretty good with nice fish being taken on sardine and plastic.
My Big Hammer has seen better days…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/033-1.jpg
We then proceeded around Pyramid Head only to be greeted by some pretty snotty conditions, but we still tried it.
Pictures on the Move…
The Ladies on the Trip
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/025-1.jpg
Big Hair cutting up the avocados for the Taco Bar Lunch!
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/026.jpg
Avocados
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Tyler with lunch before he went on his sleep shift until the evening…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/027.jpg
The Ladies and Shaw
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/030-1.jpg
Looking snotty coming into Pyramid Cove…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/029.jpg
We anchored up along the kelp, and even though we were swinging around like a yo-yo in the wind, we were catching some nice bass out of the kelp. While anchored up, lunch was served. It was a full taco bar with pork, beans, lettuce, tomato, onion, cheese, avocado, and great salsa. There was plenty of food for everybody to get seconds, or even thirds! Meanwhile, we were pulling some quality calicos out of the kelp.
Me Fishing for Calicos
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/shaw4.jpg
After a while, we were pretty much over the snotty conditions, so we went back around front for another shot at the yellows.
Hans flying his “kite” in the wind…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/shaw5.jpg
By this time, we were the only sport boat at this part of the island, as all the others went home. The fish were marking well on the sonar, but they never came up to bite. To make things worse, the knotheads were even more horrendous than the morning. They were so bad, that my friend Breck was throwing a surface iron, and he accidentally snagged one of them in the hip, and had to “donate” the jig to it. After the struggle with it, the dog actually came back to the boat! With the knotheads so horrendous, I decided to fish my mint and white Tady C, and I was rewarded with a nice big bonito that looked to be about six or seven pounds. Big Hair was fishing right next to me and he hooked a yellow that took him to the stern, but, unfortunately, the fish managed to get away. After that, the sea lions stole the entire show, and we backtracked down the island to see if weather improved in the cove.
Pictures on the Move…
Afternoon Move
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/032.jpg
The Gang enjoying their shrimp…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/034-1.jpg
MORE SHRIMP!!!
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/035-1.jpg
Breck and Capt. Rick in matching hats
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/shaw6.jpg
Two of the Greats…George King and Harry Hamamoto
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/036-2.jpg
Shaw with his drink…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/037-1.jpg
Pyramid Head
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/038-1.jpg
Better Weather
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/039.jpg
As you can see, the weather was much better, but when Ricky wanted to anchor up, he noticed that there was a breeze coming off the island, so we continued on to find a better spot. We finally settled in an area that looked pretty good. Soon, however, the wind returned, and we swung around like a yo-yo. I decided to try for a sheephead, so I broke out my bag of shrimp that I brought aboard. Oddly enough, I wasn’t having so much luck on the shrimp. Just then, one of our deckhands, Steve, pointed out a little live squid in the well. I quickly pinned it on and dropped it to the bottom. I got bit right away, let it eat it, and I set the hook and reeled it in. Luckily I was using my spectra, and it did its thing while I reeled the nice fighting fish in. I was thinking a nice big goat, but I was surprised to see this…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/041-1.jpg
This was definitely my personal best whitefish, weighing in at 4-1/2 pounds. Nice! Well, I fished the bottom for a little bit longer and pulled up some legal sheephead, and then I went back to fly lining sardines. By this time, Ricky wanted us to conserve the bigger sardines for the yellows the next day, so we switched to smaller hooks and the smaller sardines, but we still caught some nice calicos on them.
By this time, most people were done fishing and were sitting in the galley, so for the short time remaining at the kelp line, the crew got to fish a little bit. Some more nice calicos came up, but then it was time to settle in the cove for the evening.
Before dinner, it was time to settle the jackpot for the day. Tyler pulled out the five biggest yellows, and one of them was mine. My fish was the last to go on the scale, and down my fish went, and up the other fish went! All right! Jackpot Jimmy Strikes Again!!!
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/044.jpg
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/049.jpg
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/070.jpg
I took some other pictures also before dinner…
Cindy with her yellow
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/060.jpg
Mike with a Nice Yellow
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/056.jpg
After jackpot was settled, it was time to sit down to dinner. The cost of dinner was $13, and it included a mixed green salad, your choice of chicken or steak, baked potato, vegetables, and dessert. Dinner was awesome and we all shared some stories and laughs.
Jason cooking dinner…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/075.jpg
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/078.jpg
Everyone eating away…
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/077.jpg
Stories by Ed Booth
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/080-1.jpg
Crew Getting Dinner
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo358/Jackpot-Jimmy/079.jpg
After eating a great dinner and dessert, I went outside and rigged up a dropper loop to do a little raying. I set my rod in the corner on clicker and took some pictures of Tyler and Mike cutting the yellows.
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My Two Yellows
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After taking some pictures, I wound in my line to check my bait, and up came a weird looking specimen. Tyler identified it as a Sarcastic Fringehead, and he said it was the fifth or sixth one he’s seen caught this year. To me it looks like the cross between a lizardfish and a lingcod.
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Cool, new specie for me to add to the list! After that, I got no love from the rays, so I decided to turn in…