Quote from: jrodda on Today at 05:36:41 PM

Quote from: sasquatch on Today at 02:30:54 PMUsed to drift a single salmon egg on a hook with a little split shot and get bit in creeks. Wonder if a bead pegged near the hook or slipped over it would work. I know they use beads in the north west.

I was thinking about trying beads. I've got a few people with strong convictions insisting that I fly fish, so I might commit to that. But I would be pretty comfortable with beads and spoons.

I would lean towards being a master baiter over an anal beader, but bring a little spinner fly also if you have one.

Quote from: jrodda on March 24, 2026, 09:02:03 AMBringing 4wt fly rod and UL gear. Gotta start crimping my barbs.

Just walk around with a big weighted treble on the rod and record everyone's reaction. Lol

Have fun boss and good luck with the fairy wand!

Hahaha, well done Tim. I wonder why the SD shows are not as big? This is the fishing capital down here so it always boggles my mind why it's usually smaller.

Back in the 90's I would see a guy bow fishing Torrey Pines all the time. By 2000 I've never seen him again.

Possibly Tim. I was 100% planning on going until this new job threw a monkey wrench into the gears.

Thanks Mike. It's hampering my fishing days though. Lol

I'm still waiting for your double up on a single arrow!

I'm starting to wonder if there are any fish in the OC....

Sorry I've been so slow on getting a report up but the new job is taking over my entire day.  I actually like the job, but have a boss who is the biggest micro-manager I have ever worked for.   I'm talking even jobs that I had as a teenager weren't this bad.

Well, I'll just skim through the day and post pics.

We met at the bay spot we had success last year.  The weather was nice so you would have thought it was a Saturday in the summer there was so many people.

Fishing was SLOW!

Max had a big bat run early, but like Squatch, decided he wouldn't retie his hook that was sitting on the rod for a year and the line snapped 5 seconds into the run. 

Tim's Max got a Butterfly, so at least we were on the board.

Then Jerry had a screamer and we knew it was on!  Until he lost it....

Then Steve had a ripper, but his ambling nature got to the rod just in time to drop it as he grabbed the rod.   

I was taking stock in all of the losses at this point and then proceeded to lose one myself as I was tangled in about 50 yards of loose braided line that was just randomly out there.  lol

I saw a shirtless man on the other side of the bay so I sent the drone over to investigate my hunch.  Yep, it was Roger trying another spot and taking some gummies.
About an hour or two later, we thought someone was swimming in front of Roger and then we thought it was a sealion from all of the splashing.  He came by the meeting spot to tell us he lost the biggest bat ray he's hooked in decades!  Easily over 50"...  Well Roger just went on my list also.  I was starting to think we wouldn't see a bat caught this bat fight.

There was about 20 people fishing SD... 6 up in the OC....  20 in LA... and 20+ in VC.  Finally, VC started getting some 3' model bats and the pressure was on.

Then we had someone cop a squat behind Steve and I.  We didn't look back for a few minutes but I finally looked and it was REID!!!!  Old school EDC guy!  Man, it was great seeing him.

Then Max grabs a rod... Jerry's rod since he was too far away.  Max was stoked and he landed his new PB bat at 45.25" !!!!  Legit bat and leaderboard fish!

A little while later I get a screamer run and it was the right type!  I fought it for a while and my shoulder was a wreck.  I finally beached it and it was a 47.5" bat!  All everyone could say instead of nice job was... Nice, taking away the kids chance of winning the bat fight....  Fuggers.

Then Tim was on and it was definitely a bat!  After a nice fight, Tim reels in a healthy 41.5" batray!  On a streak now!

Well, everyone started packing up but the twins and Reid.  I told Reid I was reeling in at 10:00 and it was 9:56...  Then the reel started screaming!!!!  Oh boy, this was a real one. 
It took a long time to subdue, but thankfully the two "YOOTS" stayed behind to help since the two old dudes (Reid and I) would have most likely had a bunch of issues subduing it. 

Max and Miles grabbed it and both let out a WHOA!  Biggest bat they have ever seen in real life and PREGNANT!  She was 11" thick according to Myles and it was 53" wide!  It's been a LONG time since I've seen or caught one like that.  Reid was texting Steve and he was throwing shade since he thought we were just messing with him, but NOPE!

What a way to end it and a big thanks to Max and Myles for sand handing for me!  Big props to those two guys!

Well, that is it in a nutshell.  I'm sure I forgot something, but at least the post is made.  The following pics below are some of the sights of the day, and not in any particular order.

This work stuff is killing me!  It took me 18 minutes in the morning to get to work and 2 hours and 11 minutes to get home for the SAME EXACT DISTANCE!  UGH

I'm uploading photos and trying to figure out the videos, so I haven't spent much time on the post.  I will upload the pics to Imgur so I can post something and have the pics already to go.

Thanks Tim, it was a really quiet day and I wasn't sure there would be a bat caught... to Bats galore!  LOL

I need to puta post up here this week.  I just finished my taxes, so I should have a little more time to get something up.

Jeremy, thanks for getting out to rep the OC.  I'm amazed that there are fish in the OC but you remind me maybe not.  LOL
I have an order coming your way soon, BTW. 

I'll just post it here since hardly anybody uses the forum to much anymore.

Well meet at the same spot as last year in DeAnza cove. I'll try to lock up the spot first thing in the morning with Squatch and Max.

Good day but I came to a quick realization...


My fishing time is going to be severely hampered now...

Unfortunately, there was a stupid Bike Race that closed much of MB drive and all of Fiesta Island.  I did a long walk fishing and flew the drone along a lot of beaches, but the really high tide made everything muddy, green, or both.  Needless to say I didn't get any good intel, but I will try again this week.  I'm also sending out a few guys to check the front of the bay in case something is happening up there.

...but the bats are there.

Hahaha, well nice way to strike some spots off the list. I especially love the dog story as Squatch and I have more than I can even recall.

I'm heading down tomorrow for some aerial recon. I have 5 areas I want to check out from above before I make our call for Team SD.