PTN
03-19-2014, 03:50 PM
It's been awhile since I've posted a report here on FNN and I thought it was about time to post something to share. So here's my outing for the last two nights I went out.:Cold Fishing:
AO: Classified
Arsenal: LC ESG II 77MXH rod with a Shimano Stradic 2500CI4+ (my new, awesome reel!)
Lure: LC Flash Minnow Candy Sardine and LC Surf Pointer 115MR (new product):!!!:
Conditions: Small swells, long troughs and trenches, GRUNION present, and lots of weeds but some areas clear
I decided to go back out to an old hunting ground that I have had luck with when I fished the grunion run. I asked Raney and SP Dan as well as some others and they said they would be coming to try their luck. Raney surprised me by bringing the crew, Jonathon (his brother) and Danny (Onekrzyboi). We decided to meet at my house at 930PM promptly and were on our way.
SP Dan was already there and on the water working the shoreline. We all noticed a lot of kelp on the shore as well as the water in front of us. We begin casting and couldn't keep the salad off our lures which began to frustrate us and the grunions didn't show yet.:Angry: We could see Dan already way down the other end with his headlamp on and work our way to him. The swells/surge was a little high since the high tide was coming in.
We said our greetings with Dan and he had no luck either. We worked our way back in hopes of finding clear water and the salad did move out. The grunions started to show but none of us got one tap. The predators must have been sleeping or the grunions pulled a quick one on them.:Confused::LOL:
As we got closer to the rocks, I finally start to see activity on the water and saw a fish clear the water with bait boiling. That was a good sign, but I couldn't entice the fish to come after my lure. After about 30 minutes of working the area, Jonathon gets a bite and we are all stoked!
He says it feels big and sure enough, we see it and I thought it was a huge corbina. Danny yells out that it is a WSB and cheers and high fives went around.:High Five: It was about 20-22 inches. Jonathon caught his first WSB and congrats to him for catching the only fish of the night. Fish was released quickly with some quick pictures. Now stop wasting our time and catch something better!!! :Twisted::ROFL:
Dan - It was a fun time fishing with you again and sorry to disappoint you again for the lack of predator activity. Fishing the grunion run is a whole different experience then surf fishing during the day and I'm glad I was able to share the time with you.
Raney, Jonathon, and Danny - Probably see you guys again this weekend.
Only pic the night
https://scontent-a-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/10013606_417783461690362_1001053018_n.jpg
The next day, Arthur said he was available to go this time. I was contemplating if I should go but figured "what the hell, I might as well". The run was going to start a little later and I might just end up regretting the next day for work.:Tired: I got to the area first and waited on Arthur (Wingnut), Binh and Sohka.
Binh's wife and as well as some of their friends came to experience the grunion run. Us 4 decided we wanted the bigger stuff and fished. We started to fish and conditions were the same with salad almost ever cast. The only difference tonight was that the swells were a lot smaller. The predators were asleep again with only witnessing 1 or 2 bait boils and a large fish coming out of the water.
We worked the whole stretch to no avail until Arthur screams over to me that he's on! Of course the Commander would pull a rabbit out of his hat again.:Fishing Catch: He says it feels big and is giving him headshakes. What he didn't know, the ocean was pulling a trick on him. He beaches it and all we see is kelp.:ROFL: But there was a fish attached to his lure as well and it was a short WSB. Not a bad fish to catch but wasn't what he was looking for.:Big Smile:
Arthur's catch with his Glow Sardine. Looks really awesome at night when you charge it up with a light.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140393.jpg
Hey! That's a short, you know the limit!! :LOL:
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140395.jpg
The grunions started to fade away and we saw no more boil activity. I suggested to Arthur that we should try the other end where the infamous hole I found last year just to try. I refused to get out-fished again by that guy!:whistle:
We move over there and the structure is very different now. The hole was still there but not as great as last year. We started to work it and I decided to change up my retrieve, remembering that this hole was good at 1 feet, and lowered my rod tip with a quick retrieve. And BAM, it worked, and fish on! Pulled some drag and felt hefty with some headshakes. I knew it was the right kind, but when I started to beach it, I said, "great, its a bat ray!!"
Hooked up
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140396.jpg
Arthur said "no, it's a halibut." Of course he was right... and up the sand came a 22.5" butt. :Dancing Banana: It felt good for redemption for the night before. Took some pictures and back in the water it went. We were all rejuvenated again but no more bites for the next 30 minutes and called it a night or do I say morning?
Halibut with a fresh wound. Maybe a seal took a bite?
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140398.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140399.jpg
The glory shot
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140400.jpg
Arthur - Glad to see you come down and make it. It's a blast as always.
Binh & Sohka - Sorry couldn't get you guys on a good bite, but I enjoyed the company. Binh, thanks to you and your wife for the Denny's meal.
Sorry for the long report everyone!!
-Peter
Extra Pics
Binh (BadBeat)
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140401.jpg
Sokha (Troublehook)
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140402.jpg
With the humble leader
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140403.jpg
The girls outfishing us
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140404.jpg
AO: Classified
Arsenal: LC ESG II 77MXH rod with a Shimano Stradic 2500CI4+ (my new, awesome reel!)
Lure: LC Flash Minnow Candy Sardine and LC Surf Pointer 115MR (new product):!!!:
Conditions: Small swells, long troughs and trenches, GRUNION present, and lots of weeds but some areas clear
I decided to go back out to an old hunting ground that I have had luck with when I fished the grunion run. I asked Raney and SP Dan as well as some others and they said they would be coming to try their luck. Raney surprised me by bringing the crew, Jonathon (his brother) and Danny (Onekrzyboi). We decided to meet at my house at 930PM promptly and were on our way.
SP Dan was already there and on the water working the shoreline. We all noticed a lot of kelp on the shore as well as the water in front of us. We begin casting and couldn't keep the salad off our lures which began to frustrate us and the grunions didn't show yet.:Angry: We could see Dan already way down the other end with his headlamp on and work our way to him. The swells/surge was a little high since the high tide was coming in.
We said our greetings with Dan and he had no luck either. We worked our way back in hopes of finding clear water and the salad did move out. The grunions started to show but none of us got one tap. The predators must have been sleeping or the grunions pulled a quick one on them.:Confused::LOL:
As we got closer to the rocks, I finally start to see activity on the water and saw a fish clear the water with bait boiling. That was a good sign, but I couldn't entice the fish to come after my lure. After about 30 minutes of working the area, Jonathon gets a bite and we are all stoked!
He says it feels big and sure enough, we see it and I thought it was a huge corbina. Danny yells out that it is a WSB and cheers and high fives went around.:High Five: It was about 20-22 inches. Jonathon caught his first WSB and congrats to him for catching the only fish of the night. Fish was released quickly with some quick pictures. Now stop wasting our time and catch something better!!! :Twisted::ROFL:
Dan - It was a fun time fishing with you again and sorry to disappoint you again for the lack of predator activity. Fishing the grunion run is a whole different experience then surf fishing during the day and I'm glad I was able to share the time with you.
Raney, Jonathon, and Danny - Probably see you guys again this weekend.
Only pic the night
https://scontent-a-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/10013606_417783461690362_1001053018_n.jpg
The next day, Arthur said he was available to go this time. I was contemplating if I should go but figured "what the hell, I might as well". The run was going to start a little later and I might just end up regretting the next day for work.:Tired: I got to the area first and waited on Arthur (Wingnut), Binh and Sohka.
Binh's wife and as well as some of their friends came to experience the grunion run. Us 4 decided we wanted the bigger stuff and fished. We started to fish and conditions were the same with salad almost ever cast. The only difference tonight was that the swells were a lot smaller. The predators were asleep again with only witnessing 1 or 2 bait boils and a large fish coming out of the water.
We worked the whole stretch to no avail until Arthur screams over to me that he's on! Of course the Commander would pull a rabbit out of his hat again.:Fishing Catch: He says it feels big and is giving him headshakes. What he didn't know, the ocean was pulling a trick on him. He beaches it and all we see is kelp.:ROFL: But there was a fish attached to his lure as well and it was a short WSB. Not a bad fish to catch but wasn't what he was looking for.:Big Smile:
Arthur's catch with his Glow Sardine. Looks really awesome at night when you charge it up with a light.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140393.jpg
Hey! That's a short, you know the limit!! :LOL:
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140395.jpg
The grunions started to fade away and we saw no more boil activity. I suggested to Arthur that we should try the other end where the infamous hole I found last year just to try. I refused to get out-fished again by that guy!:whistle:
We move over there and the structure is very different now. The hole was still there but not as great as last year. We started to work it and I decided to change up my retrieve, remembering that this hole was good at 1 feet, and lowered my rod tip with a quick retrieve. And BAM, it worked, and fish on! Pulled some drag and felt hefty with some headshakes. I knew it was the right kind, but when I started to beach it, I said, "great, its a bat ray!!"
Hooked up
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140396.jpg
Arthur said "no, it's a halibut." Of course he was right... and up the sand came a 22.5" butt. :Dancing Banana: It felt good for redemption for the night before. Took some pictures and back in the water it went. We were all rejuvenated again but no more bites for the next 30 minutes and called it a night or do I say morning?
Halibut with a fresh wound. Maybe a seal took a bite?
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140398.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140399.jpg
The glory shot
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140400.jpg
Arthur - Glad to see you come down and make it. It's a blast as always.
Binh & Sohka - Sorry couldn't get you guys on a good bite, but I enjoyed the company. Binh, thanks to you and your wife for the Denny's meal.
Sorry for the long report everyone!!
-Peter
Extra Pics
Binh (BadBeat)
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140401.jpg
Sokha (Troublehook)
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140402.jpg
With the humble leader
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140403.jpg
The girls outfishing us
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/Wingnut32566/Wingnut%2012/Wingnut%2013/P1140404.jpg