Nipple Twister
07-30-2012, 08:23 PM
With a TON of s**t bouncing around in my head demanding attention and decisions (yeah I know, don’t we all) I was in need of some immersion therapy, it would have to be a short wham, bam, thank you Ma’am, in/out nobody gets hurt quickie kinda thing 'cause I had some appointments to keep, had to be in the valley by 1100hrs. I was also looking to make some more “tests” on a custom painted LC I had just finished which netted positive results just two days prior at another A.O.(Donald, the dogs are on the beach, the dogs are on the beach).
That day was similar to what I’m about to report on as far as being a quick recon/Intel kind of assault due the limited time available for the same reason. Within a two hour window I got two YFC’s:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072712b.jpg
This one,which was larger, decided to flip during his photo op, sorry for the pepper………both were C.P.&R’d.
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072712c.jpg
Now, on tothe hunt……….
Date: Sat, July 28, 2012
Time: 0630-0830
A.O.: Homefront beach
Terrain: Wide open sandy beach break
Weather: Calm, mild with overcast
Surf: 1’ >
Watertemp/clarity: Seemed warmer then past several days maybe low 60’s/water was clear, LC came back clean every retrieve.
Tide: 3’+outgoing
Bait: Custom painted Lucky Craft Aurora Mackerel on a 7’ Shimano Compre with a Daiwa Luna203L loaded with 50lb PowerPro braid.
Fish Count: 7 Halibut
With limited time I wanted to get some solitude immersion therapy and fling my latest creation in my home surf for comparison. On the water at grey light, I liked what I could see and it was calm, clear, trenchy waters and not a soul in sight. This is the stomping grounds Pontoon and myself have hit with good results on legal flatfish and the conditions sooo close it was giving me shivers…..bbrrrrrrrr, scary but a legal today would be nice!
Ahhh, no worries, just getting wet is workin, with the calm waters you could easily stand in the edge with little worry of getting wave slammed, flinging away my usual fan cast with music blaring of course……not ten minutes I get BUMP,PULL….and……..BAM! Fish on!
Right there in the ditch damn near jumped out at me, quick slide up the sand with the surf:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072812c.jpg
Taped out at 19ish inches and back to the water for another day….
Feeling good the skunk is off, watching the clock, adjust the music and keep my attack south……..I can see a few new anglers setting up down the beach so I figured I’d head that way and share what I have found so far which seemed to get them fired up. I just stayed close never covered more than a ¼ mile of beach the whole………..BUMP, TUG, ….wait….PULL, SHAKE ………..yeahhhhhhhh…Fish ON!
Littlet ougher fight but got to shore none the less, Shorty #2:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072812d.jpg
C.P &R’d we back to flinging………..
Working this nice trench end to end and they like the paint job………and before I could say BAM, Fish ON it was BAM>>>>FISH ON! Shorty #3:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072812e.jpg
C. P. & R’d
Feeling really good about the morning, I just keep flinging and moving…..hooked somebody else’s line by mistake…oops, sorry.
Not really seeing anyone catching fish but the Pelicans, birds are diving for baitfish big time……looking for the boilers, rips, fishy spots and fling on in and ...............YEAHHHHHH….pay off! Fish ON! Shorty #4:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072812f.jpg
Looked short for sure and wanted to get it back to water so no tape.
Few more anglers showing up, some familiar faces too, quick chat letting ‘em know “get rigged up and get wet, they’re in there!”
One gentleman C-Riggin with bugs I would thought for sure would attract the uglyfish but nope nuttin but Perch……..hey, hey, wait!
BAM, Shake,Fish ON! Standing there flappin my jaw and flinging too got shorty #5:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072812g.jpg
C. P. &R’d
Home stretch now, not much time left so up beat the tunes and step it up a notch……scanning finding the holes……going in where others are not……..”come on now, there must be others”…. getting greedy now……casting in, slow rolling back…….easy, take your time……again, again, again, again………..over here, there and …..BAM, Fish ON! Fighting hard and doing that skim on the surface thing I slide up the sand…….Shorty #6:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072812h.jpg
After aquick C.P & R I was feeling pretty good about the morning giving me a boosted positive attitude about the rest of my day but hey, I still got about 15 more minutes let’s see what comes up between here and my return spot…….flingingaway, big…..W I D E…..fan casts….stretching it to all I can reach…..slow drag as I step closer to ending the session. Starting to feel the outer sand bar on the retrieve but still plenty deep diving back into the trench…….pulling thru and up the ditch I can feel the LC wiggle, rod tip bouncing ever soooo slightly as my spool fills back with line lost on the cast……….just as I was gonna pull in and make my last cast it was B A M……..F I S H ON! Hard *** headshake, drag going out as I watch, the line it cuts thru the surface water up and down that trench,trying to stay with it running, stopping, pulling, trying to gain some line back but just as I see it and it sees me it’s Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…..all I can do is hold the rod and watch line peel off and go down the beach. Now at this point I am getting on-lookers moving closer watching me up and down the beach with El Bendo……must have been working it too hard ‘cause my hands are getting tired and it’s hard to crank……..all I can muster up was to laugh and hold on thinking, “how am I going to get this fish to shore and how much longer is that LC gonna hang on?”…..Hahaha, too funny, right to the edge of the ditch and BUMP. NADDA……..back to peeling line…..but its getting tired so tighten down justa tad, pulllllllllll……reelllllllllllland timing with the wave……………….YEAH!.......Fish#7LEGAL 26”:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072812i.jpg
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072812a.jpg
My last legal was released so this time it was the dinner table, as I write this report I am eating the last of the ceviche……..
Tight lines everyone, thanks for reading…..’til next time….see ya!
That day was similar to what I’m about to report on as far as being a quick recon/Intel kind of assault due the limited time available for the same reason. Within a two hour window I got two YFC’s:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072712b.jpg
This one,which was larger, decided to flip during his photo op, sorry for the pepper………both were C.P.&R’d.
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072712c.jpg
Now, on tothe hunt……….
Date: Sat, July 28, 2012
Time: 0630-0830
A.O.: Homefront beach
Terrain: Wide open sandy beach break
Weather: Calm, mild with overcast
Surf: 1’ >
Watertemp/clarity: Seemed warmer then past several days maybe low 60’s/water was clear, LC came back clean every retrieve.
Tide: 3’+outgoing
Bait: Custom painted Lucky Craft Aurora Mackerel on a 7’ Shimano Compre with a Daiwa Luna203L loaded with 50lb PowerPro braid.
Fish Count: 7 Halibut
With limited time I wanted to get some solitude immersion therapy and fling my latest creation in my home surf for comparison. On the water at grey light, I liked what I could see and it was calm, clear, trenchy waters and not a soul in sight. This is the stomping grounds Pontoon and myself have hit with good results on legal flatfish and the conditions sooo close it was giving me shivers…..bbrrrrrrrr, scary but a legal today would be nice!
Ahhh, no worries, just getting wet is workin, with the calm waters you could easily stand in the edge with little worry of getting wave slammed, flinging away my usual fan cast with music blaring of course……not ten minutes I get BUMP,PULL….and……..BAM! Fish on!
Right there in the ditch damn near jumped out at me, quick slide up the sand with the surf:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072812c.jpg
Taped out at 19ish inches and back to the water for another day….
Feeling good the skunk is off, watching the clock, adjust the music and keep my attack south……..I can see a few new anglers setting up down the beach so I figured I’d head that way and share what I have found so far which seemed to get them fired up. I just stayed close never covered more than a ¼ mile of beach the whole………..BUMP, TUG, ….wait….PULL, SHAKE ………..yeahhhhhhhh…Fish ON!
Littlet ougher fight but got to shore none the less, Shorty #2:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072812d.jpg
C.P &R’d we back to flinging………..
Working this nice trench end to end and they like the paint job………and before I could say BAM, Fish ON it was BAM>>>>FISH ON! Shorty #3:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072812e.jpg
C. P. & R’d
Feeling really good about the morning, I just keep flinging and moving…..hooked somebody else’s line by mistake…oops, sorry.
Not really seeing anyone catching fish but the Pelicans, birds are diving for baitfish big time……looking for the boilers, rips, fishy spots and fling on in and ...............YEAHHHHHH….pay off! Fish ON! Shorty #4:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072812f.jpg
Looked short for sure and wanted to get it back to water so no tape.
Few more anglers showing up, some familiar faces too, quick chat letting ‘em know “get rigged up and get wet, they’re in there!”
One gentleman C-Riggin with bugs I would thought for sure would attract the uglyfish but nope nuttin but Perch……..hey, hey, wait!
BAM, Shake,Fish ON! Standing there flappin my jaw and flinging too got shorty #5:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072812g.jpg
C. P. &R’d
Home stretch now, not much time left so up beat the tunes and step it up a notch……scanning finding the holes……going in where others are not……..”come on now, there must be others”…. getting greedy now……casting in, slow rolling back…….easy, take your time……again, again, again, again………..over here, there and …..BAM, Fish ON! Fighting hard and doing that skim on the surface thing I slide up the sand…….Shorty #6:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072812h.jpg
After aquick C.P & R I was feeling pretty good about the morning giving me a boosted positive attitude about the rest of my day but hey, I still got about 15 more minutes let’s see what comes up between here and my return spot…….flingingaway, big…..W I D E…..fan casts….stretching it to all I can reach…..slow drag as I step closer to ending the session. Starting to feel the outer sand bar on the retrieve but still plenty deep diving back into the trench…….pulling thru and up the ditch I can feel the LC wiggle, rod tip bouncing ever soooo slightly as my spool fills back with line lost on the cast……….just as I was gonna pull in and make my last cast it was B A M……..F I S H ON! Hard *** headshake, drag going out as I watch, the line it cuts thru the surface water up and down that trench,trying to stay with it running, stopping, pulling, trying to gain some line back but just as I see it and it sees me it’s Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…..all I can do is hold the rod and watch line peel off and go down the beach. Now at this point I am getting on-lookers moving closer watching me up and down the beach with El Bendo……must have been working it too hard ‘cause my hands are getting tired and it’s hard to crank……..all I can muster up was to laugh and hold on thinking, “how am I going to get this fish to shore and how much longer is that LC gonna hang on?”…..Hahaha, too funny, right to the edge of the ditch and BUMP. NADDA……..back to peeling line…..but its getting tired so tighten down justa tad, pulllllllllll……reelllllllllllland timing with the wave……………….YEAH!.......Fish#7LEGAL 26”:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072812i.jpg
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/nippletwister_photos/Fishing/072812a.jpg
My last legal was released so this time it was the dinner table, as I write this report I am eating the last of the ceviche……..
Tight lines everyone, thanks for reading…..’til next time….see ya!