Waking Up Early Made Easy

[tamddo714]

Woke up this morning and contemplated to hit the cold morning water or to go back to sleep in my warm bed Finally found the strength to change and head to one of my favorite AO. Got into the water about 8am. High tide was at 9:30am with about 5 feet of water, my preferred conditions for this AO. Threw my barred surf perch LC for about 15 minutes then rod went bendo! After a quick fight beached and released a nice 13" perch and skunk off! Worked the beach for another twenty minutes then got another good slam, headshake means halibut! Beached up a nice 18" flatty then back into the waters it went. Was throwing the Lc for another half hour with no takes so i decided to switch to my favorite candy sardine LC. Threw it for about 15 minutes then my rod went bendo again! Got a big head shake as my eyes widened The waves were about 2-3ft and next thing you know the flattie swims in towards me with the wave and its sitting almost right next to me. I quickly back peddle and beach my personal best 34" halibut! =]

[SP Dan]

Hi ya tamddo714,

"Congratulations" on your PB 34" Halibut! WTG!!

Perseverance, determination and patience ...... what a dangerous combination!

Thanx for the fun read along with that amazing pic of your PB!

SP Dan <"))><

[hollywoodbass]

Nice Halibut! I woke up early and was trying to decide if I should hit the surf or go to the gym. I hit the gym. Now wish I had hit the surf

[skunked4life]

Omg!!! From the surf??? Great job out there! Winner winner halibut dinner! Knew that your hard work would pay off but this was amazing!

Skunked4life

[bachiboy]

Awesome fish! That's a trophy flattie. Sometimes it definitely worth dragging our tired bodies out of bed...not always, but it sure is sweet when it does pay off like that.

Congrats!!!
Don

[DockRat]

34" Wow. Nice catch.
DR

[Which Way Out]

Very nice.

Your effort was well rewarded.

Now just for those people that fish and not catch anything. I will add that 3 very good fishermen up in my area of fishing got the dreaded skunk yesterday. So even with good intel, the best bet is to do what you did, get out of bed and fish.

WWO

[murrieta angler]

Very nice flatty!!
Congratulations on a nice sized fish.
Robert
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[tamddo714]

thank you for all the kind words! im still surprised i caught this halibut. I really got lucky this time

[madbass]

very nice!
that's a fatty for sure! sometimes its better to be lucky than good.
you deserve it, congratualtions!