SP Dan
04-09-2012, 07:53 PM
This Past Weekends Quick Debreifing: Saturday: Skunked. Sunday: (2) short Hali's and (1) 45" SNGF.
Saturday 4-07-2012...Orange County, assaulted the spot from 0630 - 1200 hrs and received the BIG stripped skunk!
Sunday 4-08-2012....LA County and two different AO's
First AO-
Session: feet wet at 0615 hrs and out at 0800 hrs.
Air temp: 53-73 degrees Fahrenheit.
Water temp: 54 degrees Fahrenheit. Clear, very little salad. Lots of bait and diving birds.
Sun rise: 0627. Sun set: 1915 hrs.
Moon: waning gibbous.
surf: 1-2 ft, swell: 1 ft, sets: 18 secs.
Tide: LTIC 0600 hrs -.06 ft, 0800 hrs 1.5 ft, 1000 hrs 3.8 ft, 1200 hrs 4.2 ft.
Terrain: flat, wide sandy beach
Assault tactics: St. Croix 9'-6", 8-17 lb, Shimano Stradic CI4 3000 reel with 55# Samurai 8-carrier braided line with a LC 110 Flash-minnow BSP lure tied on with a Uni knot.
I arrived at my local spot at 0615 hrs and my FNN brother John (aka: Nipple Twister) had already been there for approx 45 minutes! After a warm brotherly greeting..... he snickered a bit.... ha ha ha....and said that I should have been here earlier...the conditions were even better! :LOL:
John had a few drag pullers but nothing that stayed on... and me.....well it was pole-cats-ville. A bit smelly!
I mentioned to John that I wasn't feeling the love and that I wanted to relocate to another AO that I had in mind. John agreed.
John and I relocated approx 5 miles to our second AO.....our feet were wet at 0830 hrs and out at 1130 hrs.
For reasons I won't mention :Wink:....I headed down to the spot first and told John that I would see him there.
Second AO: (INTEL remained the same).
It was an IC 1.5 ft tide and so I had gotten out to above my waste in order to get to my spot...I was leaping up to stay above the incoming swells but a few were still able to get inside of my jacket just above the zipped up neck of my jacket and then on the third cast...."Heavy BENDO"!! WAHOO....it was on! It was like being hooked on a pallet of bricks...and I was guessing a foul hooked Leo, Ray or a SNGF. It was making a run deep towards a couple of nearby surfers. I hollered over to them and they were really polite and moved over and out of the way so that I could land this fish. John was walking up on the spot and let out a huge "YAHOO" as he saw my rod in the full bend position! It ended up being a 45" SNGF.....thank you Poseidon....for putting the skunk fish behind me once again!!
I had foul hooked it at the very front of the base of it's dorsal fin and I couldn't turn it...no matter how hard I tried! It ended up breaking off a hook on two different treble hooks! And then I went on to land the next two fish with the same damaged hooks! What a great day!
0830 hrs I hooked up with this 45" SNGF! My offical skunk buster! Yahoo! :LOL:
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=34386&d=1333982686
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=34387&d=1333982712
My next bent rod action was at 0845 hrs. I was blessed with this lil' 19 1/2" Hali.
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=34388&d=1333982732
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=34389&d=1333982776
My last bent rod was at 0915 hrs with this lil' 17/1/2" Hali!
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=34390&d=1333982811
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=34391&d=1333982847
Well...That's it for my weekend sessions! All fish were CPR.
Thanx for taking the time to read my report. :Cool:
PS...Congrat's to my SWAT brothers (bsp and wingnut) on there legal hali catches this past Easter weekend! :Cool:
SP Dan <"))><
Saturday 4-07-2012...Orange County, assaulted the spot from 0630 - 1200 hrs and received the BIG stripped skunk!
Sunday 4-08-2012....LA County and two different AO's
First AO-
Session: feet wet at 0615 hrs and out at 0800 hrs.
Air temp: 53-73 degrees Fahrenheit.
Water temp: 54 degrees Fahrenheit. Clear, very little salad. Lots of bait and diving birds.
Sun rise: 0627. Sun set: 1915 hrs.
Moon: waning gibbous.
surf: 1-2 ft, swell: 1 ft, sets: 18 secs.
Tide: LTIC 0600 hrs -.06 ft, 0800 hrs 1.5 ft, 1000 hrs 3.8 ft, 1200 hrs 4.2 ft.
Terrain: flat, wide sandy beach
Assault tactics: St. Croix 9'-6", 8-17 lb, Shimano Stradic CI4 3000 reel with 55# Samurai 8-carrier braided line with a LC 110 Flash-minnow BSP lure tied on with a Uni knot.
I arrived at my local spot at 0615 hrs and my FNN brother John (aka: Nipple Twister) had already been there for approx 45 minutes! After a warm brotherly greeting..... he snickered a bit.... ha ha ha....and said that I should have been here earlier...the conditions were even better! :LOL:
John had a few drag pullers but nothing that stayed on... and me.....well it was pole-cats-ville. A bit smelly!
I mentioned to John that I wasn't feeling the love and that I wanted to relocate to another AO that I had in mind. John agreed.
John and I relocated approx 5 miles to our second AO.....our feet were wet at 0830 hrs and out at 1130 hrs.
For reasons I won't mention :Wink:....I headed down to the spot first and told John that I would see him there.
Second AO: (INTEL remained the same).
It was an IC 1.5 ft tide and so I had gotten out to above my waste in order to get to my spot...I was leaping up to stay above the incoming swells but a few were still able to get inside of my jacket just above the zipped up neck of my jacket and then on the third cast...."Heavy BENDO"!! WAHOO....it was on! It was like being hooked on a pallet of bricks...and I was guessing a foul hooked Leo, Ray or a SNGF. It was making a run deep towards a couple of nearby surfers. I hollered over to them and they were really polite and moved over and out of the way so that I could land this fish. John was walking up on the spot and let out a huge "YAHOO" as he saw my rod in the full bend position! It ended up being a 45" SNGF.....thank you Poseidon....for putting the skunk fish behind me once again!!
I had foul hooked it at the very front of the base of it's dorsal fin and I couldn't turn it...no matter how hard I tried! It ended up breaking off a hook on two different treble hooks! And then I went on to land the next two fish with the same damaged hooks! What a great day!
0830 hrs I hooked up with this 45" SNGF! My offical skunk buster! Yahoo! :LOL:
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=34386&d=1333982686
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=34387&d=1333982712
My next bent rod action was at 0845 hrs. I was blessed with this lil' 19 1/2" Hali.
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=34388&d=1333982732
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=34389&d=1333982776
My last bent rod was at 0915 hrs with this lil' 17/1/2" Hali!
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=34390&d=1333982811
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=34391&d=1333982847
Well...That's it for my weekend sessions! All fish were CPR.
Thanx for taking the time to read my report. :Cool:
PS...Congrat's to my SWAT brothers (bsp and wingnut) on there legal hali catches this past Easter weekend! :Cool:
SP Dan <"))><