Well folks...It's been a while but I felt like I had to put this one up because it is another milestone in my surf fishing adventures here in SoCal over the years.Saturday I decided to do some exploring south in an old haunt I haven't visited for a few years pretty much because my local area has been lifeless. I hit the sand at grey light and for the next three hours I did a heck of a lot of casting practice. I was in the GO BIG OR GO HOME mode with my 8'6" steelhead rod/spinning combo loaded with 50lb spectra and a 30lb fluoro leader. I was tossing a 6" Daiwa salt minnow sinking version and going long and deep because the skinny has just been DEAD. I knew it was a long shot to hope that there was something sinister holding out in a deeper zone but what the heck.....maybe something good would happen!
After 3 hours of not even a tap and the hot temps starting to beat me up (yeah I was wearing waders) I decided to head back to my car and just make a few casts while walking. All of a sudden I get a grab in the skinny and my first thought was that I snagged a corbina or a SNGF but to my amazement it was my first striper from the sand. She wasn't that big and because I got the grab in about 2ft of water she didn't have a chance to even make one run. I put her on the sand in about 20 seconds but hey...I'll take a 27" striper skunk buster any day. I'd say she was between 5 and 7lbs. Only had a chance to do a quick tape out and pic and even at that when I released her she went belly up on me at first but then went on her way.
Hope to see you folks at HGVII on the 3rd,
Mike