Beautiful conditions at least!

___Saturday___

1100-1230, high tide was an 0900 6.7

Knew I was gonna be pretty mobile, scouting out different stretches.

Spot A:

Lots of surfers. Should have been expected with 4-6' waves. Pretty nice break too. Sand structure was flattened from the storm, not freshly carved up like I was hoping. First cast my whole rig flew off. I laughed and walked away.

Spot B:

Still lots of surfers but enough room to work with. Inside break did look a little fishier. 40 minutes of working it produced zero bites.

Gave up and went to Charkbait for a bit, buying out the MORF grub stock.


___Sunday___

1200-1300

Tried another zone hoping for cleaner water. Water is brown everywhere, hard to say if it's just churned up or if it's red tide. Swell was way down though. Closer to 2'. Water feeling more frigid on my feets. Tidal height should have been around 4', similar to what I was fishing last weekend, but the nice inside trough before had essentially disappeared. I got 2 bites, 1 9" BSP to hand. Tough!

Brisk weather both days, pleasant and cool.

Quote from: Fish Jerk on November 16, 2024, 05:43:04 PMI actually think you should do 2 land-based and boat. Certain species that can be caught either way, land-based anglers would be severely limited. The 2 biggest I've posted were my 35.5" halibut from the beach and a 23" calico from the beach.

Big halibut from the beach has always been a certain special thing. Yeah, maybe stickies at the top of the Shore Based and Boat/PWC for respective record boards?

Fun idea!

Any rules that should be adopted, like hooked inside the mouth? Lengths measured at time of catch with tape, vs against a rod? Outlaws all my proposed surf catches if no tape at the time.

Off the top of my head some of the biggest I've seen:

BSP - anybody beat my 15.5"?
YFC - i got a 17.5" this year
Spotfin -
Corbina -
Halibut - probably you Tom?

Bat Ray -
Butterfly Ray -
Eagle Ray -
Leopard Shark -
Smoothhound -
Shovelnose -
Banded Shovelnose -
Thornback - i got a nice one around '19, '20. Can't remember if I only posted it to SCSF at the time though...
7gill -
Soupfin -
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Sand Bass -
Kelp Bass -
Spotted Bass -

Bonito -
Barracuda -
White Seabass -
Yellowtail -

BFT - chris had a 110ish
Swordfish - has anyone but chris gotten one?
Mahi - biggest I remember is my 24lbs posted
Striped Marlin - you measure yours?
YFT -

I started by classifying into relatively obvious groups above but with so many, now should just plug it into an excel sheet with name, length, weight columns at least.

I've never watched a live fight before. Shimano boys and I were striper fishing (answer is no) and tuned in for it. I was rooting for Mike and was disappointed enough after 2 rounds to pull away and keep fishing. Just wanted to see Jake Paul's head knocked off. It is too much to ask apparently! Didn't see anything else.

Woof...hang in there Tom.

I would be blown away if IGFA actually certifies it, but I love seeing these 400+lb yellowfin tuna. Didn't know they used the shoulder harness though, which is key there. Only the third or fourth ever seen, amongst millions as maybe the most common tuna in the world?

If I ever get an electric reel (I might end up servicing them eventually so I ought to get one to know them in and out) I wanna try some spots in 2,000-3,000' for what I assume would be thornyheads and ratfish.

I'm sure you're gonna recreate last year's luck soon enough, keep chipping away. The rocks are looking good though.

That's a lot of lead. How deep do you think you'll get to? I'm sure you can find some thornyheads, if you dare...

You guys sure have a lot of fun over there. Makes me wanna tell Alicia that I've got a cute lunch date in mind...

I tend to reserve my 1 point to bet against Miami but they had some real heaters to contend with. They do look to be sucking a little less lately, overall. Still trying to forget they exist on the day to day for my own well being.

Water looks like my latte! Good on everyone getting a few.

Wish I had some reefier beaches closer to home, not super inspiring prospects for things like that or 7s. Good luck if you go!

Wanted a repeat of yesterday.

More abridged trip. 1445 to 1645. Tide level was technically the same but a little bigger break on the outside seemed to present totally differently. Still nice weather. A little more kelp and grass.

Got the skunk off quick but not as many bites.



Picked off one more but otherwise struggled.

The gulls kept pushing into my air space and I pretty much shot my rig between this one's feet mid-flight. Oopsy. A couple loops of braid around its foot, no biggy.



30 minutes later another one! Some college kids were filming me untangle it from afar, we'll see the spin on that in the morning I suppose.



I could have slowed the line coming off the spool to get the line below the birds, but I admit, I was feeling particularly entitled to my air space this afternoon. They both flew off without any line on them and unscathed.

On my way home I stopped at Amazon Fresh for the week's groceries and scored 2 16lb turkeys at $7 each! More birds!