Went Small

[Latimeria]

I was pretty beat up this morning and didn't want to deal with the crew races, but I did anyway.  I brought 3 small rods to pick up some corvine, bass and halibut.

I started with the spook and had a few smaller needle fish pop me.  I then get a big hit and it was a pretty big needlefish.



Damn, I'd figure myself cursed for the day and I then get the right blow up!  Classic explosion and fight until I got him close enough before he took a sportsman's release.  Only a 16-17" model, so it wasn't anything special.

As the light started to head up in the sky, I realized that I may be cursed.  There was even drowned rats inhabiting the beach.



It got light and I switched to the swimmy.  I started with a dark green back/orange belly MC I got at the show yesterday and picked up 5 fish from 10" - 14"







I went through a couple of swimmies before switching over to the light blue bay smelt.  I picked up 3 to 16" and called it the day.





Fun few hours of fishing and I ran to Dana to get some reel hardware.  The bay was PACKED!  That was it for me.  I picked up my stuff and headed out east to kick my feet up and take a little siesta!

[SevengillTheVC]

Needlefish are pretty sweet, saw a video of a lady getting a tracheotomy by one, pretty gnarly. Nice bass as usual!

[Eric H]

Nice bay sesh

[sasquatch]

Killer needlefish.

[raychavez91]

Nice mini session...I'm definitely find have to try 1 before work ,1 of these days

[WheresMyBeer]

Nice Mission mission TOM ...

[HalibutJoel99]

 Very cool Needlefish on the top water Tom.

[j.rasta]

Needle fish in the dark must have been fun, can believe he didn't get all lassoed. Pretty decent bassin boss B) Glad to see u takin it easy

[Tim524]

I need to float  the Ass Rack soon, glad you got some fish that were easy on the back

[Sticks]

Thats one toothy criter

[BackBayMan]

Never seen a needlefish