Would have been an epic bait run if I brought the long rod (8/11)

[Latimeria]

Jeez... my boat, long rods and most of my fishing gear is just sitting there quiet.  I have a granddaughter on the way and basically more stuff I can handle this summer, so I made myself get up and do some sort of fishing on Sunday morning.

I wasn't sure if I was going to do surf... bay... or a combo of both.  Instead of heading to MB like my original plan, I decided to give TP a shot.  I didn't see many fish, but wow!  Little 12"-13" corbina everywhere!  Mostly on blind casting, but I did get some on sight fishing.  My biggest I got in was 19". 



I had a bigger one (~22") that flopped off the hook at my feet and a receding wave gave that him 2" of water and I tried to grab him, but watched him shoot off the skinny water in lightning speed!  Sportsman's release.
The perch loved the bigger thumb sized crabs.  I caught a handful of them.



Basically, I was catching awesome surf grinner baits!  I was going to keep some, but had nothing to bring them back in.  They would be better fresh anyway, so next long rod trip... fresh corbina....



I caught 20 of these damn things!  I went 6 for 6 at one point!



Great sized baits for sure.



I even got a keychain sized leo that seriously was just born.  It had a damn parasite on it already!  I plucked the fugger off as I've been seeing more and more baby sharks loaded with parasites lately.  Those baby makos Squatch and I were getting last year had them all over their fins.



Well, thanks for reading and hopefully we'll be seeing more bigger game reports here soon. 

[vdisney]

Simply outstanding session Tom, I'm jealous...............the last two times we were gonna go fishing my dad wouldn't get out of bed 

[Pinoyfisher]

Caught a lot of bait!