skunked4life
07-31-2012, 08:57 AM
I am posting pics from the weekend and some from my last minute outing on Monday.
This one was my first short on Saturday evening 07/28/2012:
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Here is the second short from the next morning 07/28/2012 (with a little help from my buddy):
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Both of the above were caught in 45 minute sessions.
On Sunday night, I get a call from my younger brother whom I have not seen in awhile. He wants to go try out fishing. Ok. Why not? He was inexperienced (other than pier fishing) but I set him up and headed out. The conditions were slightly overcast and hot. I have not fished in the middle of the day before so did not expect to catch anything. The first 30 minutes were nothing but skunk. Then, I moved about 5 yards to my left and I get slammed. I think to myself, wow, a halibut or guitarfish. It fought like crazy!!! Lots of seaweed, so that might have accounted for some of the pull...maybe. No, not at all, it came up clean and I though this was my first mid-sized spotfin croaker. Nope, it was a prego YFC about 15 to maybe 16 inches and weighing in on my cheapy scale at almost 2.5 pounds.
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Tried to measure them, take the picture and release, but they would not cooperate with the measuring part. Got sand everywhere.
We hooked into at least 8 more croakers all about the same size. They were just huge. Hooked up on some decent sized BSPs and a couple that were just too embarrassing to take pictures of. All caught on gulp products (crack and new penny shrimp).
This one was my first short on Saturday evening 07/28/2012:
36563
Here is the second short from the next morning 07/28/2012 (with a little help from my buddy):
36564
Both of the above were caught in 45 minute sessions.
On Sunday night, I get a call from my younger brother whom I have not seen in awhile. He wants to go try out fishing. Ok. Why not? He was inexperienced (other than pier fishing) but I set him up and headed out. The conditions were slightly overcast and hot. I have not fished in the middle of the day before so did not expect to catch anything. The first 30 minutes were nothing but skunk. Then, I moved about 5 yards to my left and I get slammed. I think to myself, wow, a halibut or guitarfish. It fought like crazy!!! Lots of seaweed, so that might have accounted for some of the pull...maybe. No, not at all, it came up clean and I though this was my first mid-sized spotfin croaker. Nope, it was a prego YFC about 15 to maybe 16 inches and weighing in on my cheapy scale at almost 2.5 pounds.
36566365673656836569
Tried to measure them, take the picture and release, but they would not cooperate with the measuring part. Got sand everywhere.
We hooked into at least 8 more croakers all about the same size. They were just huge. Hooked up on some decent sized BSPs and a couple that were just too embarrassing to take pictures of. All caught on gulp products (crack and new penny shrimp).