Troutketcher
09-26-2013, 08:48 PM
Fished my favorite AO in the OC both Tuesday and Wednesday. Fished 2 hours before through 2 hours after the noonish high tides both days. On Tuesday the conditions were perfect! Warm weather, no wind, no salad, and tons of SCs. Overall the bite was decent, wasn't as wide open as I thought it would be but still brought in a good number of small BSPs. I used larger SCs trying to catch bigger fish but they were just getting sawed in half by small perch. Once the bite completely died and the water level appeared kinda too shallow to fish any longer, I decided to make one last cast, and just so happened to dig up the biggest SC of the day. I cast out and it must have been sitting out there for about a minute when it got absolutely demolished! It took off like a freight train out to the open ocean and would have spooled me if I didn't button down the drag. It felt crazy heavy and was worried my line would snap or that I should have retied the hook in the last hour...but after a 15 minute battle I finally brought it in close and saw flashes of silver and knew it had to be a SFC. Thank goodness the tide had lowered and the waves were calm which allowed me to beach it fairly easily. Taped out just over 23 inches and weighed in just under 7 pounds! A new PB for me (but not as big as the 25" my mom caught a few weeks back which I posted on here, so she still has bragging rights)
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u267/brlennox/Surf%20Fishing/BrentsSpotfin-Copy_zps061d8828.jpg
Wednesday, the conditions couldn't be any different. Crazy windy, strong current, and salad everywhere. Was still able to bring in 11 BSPs but missed a ton of strikes as I had so much trouble trying to keep my line tight with the strong wind and current. Saw some spotties swimming in the waves but no takers.
Definitely an awesome couple of days and stoked about landing my PB Spottie!
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u267/brlennox/Surf%20Fishing/BrentsSpotfin-Copy_zps061d8828.jpg
Wednesday, the conditions couldn't be any different. Crazy windy, strong current, and salad everywhere. Was still able to bring in 11 BSPs but missed a ton of strikes as I had so much trouble trying to keep my line tight with the strong wind and current. Saw some spotties swimming in the waves but no takers.
Definitely an awesome couple of days and stoked about landing my PB Spottie!