5/17/17 Surf Report

[1morecast]

Wednesday is not my usual fishing day of the week, but Mike said he couldn't fish on Thursday so we laid plans to hit the surf last night. I get to the A.O. around 8pm to find minimal salad. I was expecting much more since Mike and Tom had reported a salad feast a couple of days earlier. I just got a new set of 7oz sputniks from Klammer and I wanted to see if the extra once makes a difference on the casting distance. My first cast with the 7oz weights does sail further then the normal 6oz weights that I use. I put my rod into the holder and I can see I am getting some interest right away. I'm fishing next to some structure, so I'm kinda worried that the rig or fish will hang me up. I get a nice hit within 10 minutes of tossing out my first bait out there. I wait to see if it's a critter or the right kind. I feel nothing, so I reel in the rig to find my Mac completely bit in half. (I was using a whole small Mac) Mike think it was either a shark or eel. I cast my new bait out again and wait another 10 minutes before I get the 7gill type bite. I set the hook and a couple of good head shakes, so I know it's the right kind. It goes straight toward the structure I was hoping to avoid. A minute later my line snaps, I reel in the line to fine a clean break. My guess was that it broke when the line was nicked by the reef.

I move 20 yards from the reef to give me a little room. Around 10pm I get the right kind to come back again. This time I was rewarded with a juvenile male 7gill (70").





Mike catches a couple of critters too, but that was it for me last night.

Good luck out there guys.

[xjchad]

Nice Binh!  Good to see you're staying close to Mike! 

[lightline21]

Congrats, Binh! Things are really happening, down in the SD!

[1morecast]

Nice Binh!  Good to see you're staying close to Mike! 

Yeah, it's always good to have Mike play sand hand instead of me.

[Pinoyfisher]

You were long over due Binh! I was due to test my sand hand skills. Kelp and eel grass got pretty bad after you left. Lots of critter bites. At least I wasn't skunked.

Eel #1


Eel #2


Binh's forgotten 20" calico


Kept one eel as bait. Man, those things are a bitch to cut!!

[Latimeria]

Excellent guys and congrats Binh!  You need to keep adding to your totals to catch up to Mike!  It's been some pretty good action the last month down here.

Good news about the salad.  I might give it a go tonight also.

[Tim524]

Nice going, you guys are giving them sharks a workout

[LONGCAST JOE]

Nice to get another for the board...I'll have to admit though, the first thought that flashed through my mind when I looked at the pics was-
"What's going on, No white Crocs?"

[Pinoyfisher]

Nice to get another for the board...I'll have to admit though, the first thought that flashed through my mind when I looked at the pics was-
"What's going on, No white Crocs?"

Lol!! I made a comment that night about a knife he has that matched his white crocs!! lol!!!

[Chris]

Nice ones! Those bass are almost worth targeting. I need to get down there with you guys soon.

[Pinoyfisher]

Nice ones! Those bass are almost worth targeting. I need to get down there with you guys soon.

Just let us know!

[Eric H]

Seriously, take the bass rods and start chucking the hammers

[Pinoyfisher]

Seriously, take the bass rods and start chucking the hammers

Nah, can't catch grinners that way.

[vdisney]

Number two takes some of the sting out of number one, congrats................V