Minus One's to Mini Seven's (7/22)

[Latimeria]

I knew the beaches were going to be crowded, but a wind event was supposed to happen so I didn't take the boat to work with me.  Figures, the weathermen were wrong once again....

Steve and I had to do some walking to find anywhere to fish when we first got down to the beach.  It quickly became a shovelnose fest, but at least they were some half way decent ones that put up a decent fight.

The other cool thing was we saw a bunch of bat rays and leopard sharks feeding in the surf.  It was frustrating watching them swim around out baits and not take them.

We moved down to where we originally  were going to fish to find a swarm of surfing and spear fishing groms.  It took a while for things to clear out, but when it did, the fishing got good.



The shovelnose were not here thankfully, but we had some decent action for only a real few hours of fishing.

I farmed a nice fish which most likely was a bat ray from all of the line he was stripping.  I finally get on the board with a 3+ foot leopard.


Steve one upped me with a bigger model leopard with a spaghetti tag! Leopard shark #83 at 54" long.  He submitted the data online.


He then had another quick hit which turned out to be a nasty little 7-Gill!  This thing had some attitude!


It turned out to be a nice night and I still took the trophy since Squatch zeroed himself out with some minus one fish... the dreaded Thorny Back Ray....  oh wait... that may have been me that zeroed out. 

[sasquatch]

That was a pretty good night overall. It was a little tough to find real estate for sure. Wonder what might have happened if we had stayed put?

[faster u fool]

Was that shark tagged?

[sasquatch]

Yeah, Chris, the leopard had a tag. I cut it off due to the open sore on the fin where the tag was attached. Hopefully it will heal. I reported the capture online but have heard nothing back.

[Pinoyfisher]

Aww, that's a cute lil 7 gill!!

[sasquatch]

Aww, that's a cute lil 7 gill!!

Yeah, but it still counts as 1.

[Pinoyfisher]

Aww, that's a cute lil 7 gill!!

Yeah, but it still counts as 1.

One more than me I'd take that guy any day!

[faster u fool]

killer pics as usual Tom..  I have got to give that a try sometime..