Between a rock and hard place

[LONGCAST JOE]

Hit the closest beach in the early AM with the light rod and castmaster to make some bait for the evening sesh. Picked up 8 yellowfin croakers from 6" - 10" in a couple of hours.Home by 9am. Decided to try a new AO based on surf conditions and also have been wanting to try since I caught a video on you tube put up by a free diver that had soupies and sevengill in the vid. I had a good idea where he was diving at by glimpses of shoreline I could catch in the background.  Got a line in before last light after about a half mile trek in with dark black clouds approaching from the horizon quickly in a stead wind. Set up in the break trench that happened to be in between a large rock to the left about yds 200 offshore and another to the right about 100 yds out. I thought, well, hopefully a hook up will run to the left and I can put some brakes on before it's 200yards out.Within an hour got a screamer that picked up a de-finned and scaled  8" whole croaker, made a blistering 50yd initial run, of course to the right, around the rock, vibration, and pop  . Line came back all frayed and roughed up on the top shot, shock leader and rig donated to the cause. Fished for another few hours with a strong wind and mist in my face with out a solid hit. I know , I know, but it was the obvious deep trench where the waves wer'nt breaking...At least I still have a few left over croakers for next sesh.
JOE

[1morecast]

No pain, no gain. At least you tried.

[sasquatch]

Kinda set yourself up for that from the sound of it. Doesn't sound like there was much choice. If it had zigged instead of zagged you might have gotten a nice one.

[Eric H]

These croakers seem to be candy.

Bummer on the busted off fish.

Can't get em without trying.

[Pinoyfisher]

Sounds like you need to go back and hit it again!!

[LONGCAST JOE]

Sounds like you need to go back and hit it again!!

For sure, I plan to. When the surf settles down and we have another high tide close to sunset I'll be back.

[Latimeria]

DOH!  I've had too many of those similar situations to count, but it does get your blood pumping!

I can't wait for the rematch.  Get 'em Joe!

I'm stoked to see the yellowfin croaker getting picked up so much lately.

[vdisney]

Bummer about the break off Joe.  I tried to get a hold of you about a location to catch macs, I had intel but you never got back to me.  BTW, I'm a one thumb text kind of guy........that's why I call back 

[SevengillTheVC]

I wish we got more YFC up here. The white croakers that are so prevalent north of Mugu always come back untouched when I use em. At least you tried Joe, it's about all we can do up here until our critters come back!