1st Soup Of the Summer 6/22/24

[j.rasta]

Well it's that time of year again B)

Luke got it started few weekends ago 6/2 with a solid daytime lowtide soup while he was out with Nick.

https://i.imgur.com/VMgsA5f.jpeg

6/8 Hit the sand for the 1st grunion run of June on the with Nick and Luke, salad, kelp and red tide were horrendous . But Nick made the most of the short window of clear water and capitalized on his position in the lineup while Luke and I caught all the kelp :X


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Fast forward to this past Sat 6/22, Greg joined Luke, his buddy Kyle and I down at the spot for this most recent grunion run to see if the biomass of soups would show up this time.. Nick gave us some scouting Intel and it looked like everything was lining up for what could be a night to remember.

My cousin Mike, aka hippie longbeard, left for his new home in Springfield Oregon that afternoon , and I sent him a pic of the sunsetting over my rod. He said catch a big one for him :'-) Welp Poseidon must have been listening , cause it didn't take 5mins for me to see my rod wiggle, and go slack. I wound down and took a few quick shuffle steps backwards and sent the hook home as she started screaming line off and I could feel her go airborne

Man it never ceases to amaze me how hard these sharks fight . She gave me a few blitzkrieg runs and then the 2-3' sets started working to my advantage. Took about 5-6 tries but Greg and Luke co tailed her once she hit hard pack

https://i.imgur.com/9j2Ubis.jpeg

Glory shot B)

https://i.imgur.com/f2pkmnA.jpeg

Kyle got a solid take down that didn't get the hook lil while later.

About an hour went by before Luke's rod went bendo next and he handed it off to Kyle. Thought for sure it was a soup by the initial blazing run but turned out to be a saddleback ;P

Beautiful Leo for his 1st surf shark

https://imgur.com/a/xMSYuhB

Well Luke had the hot stick as he went bendo again about 45mins later and after Kyle refused another hand off , Luke buckled down . Either this soup ran through another fisherman's line , down 50yds north from us, or his line was getting dragged halfway towards it. Either way the thing half beached itself rolled up in multiple lines and was a complete cluster eff to deal with while being as green as it was. But I managed to get everything cleared out , and only sustained a meer flesh wound on my index finger from maybe a tooth maybe face scales and head shake/roll :x but she swam away strong and we got the sh!t show cleared up

Pic looks clean


https://i.imgur.com/az5FNIF.jpeg

How it really was


https://i.imgur.com/CMzoG6g.jpeg


Not a lot of grunion showed up , and we stayed til midnight before calling it and making the trek out. Not a bad night. But seemed like it could have broke wide open when we first got there. Maybe we should have got there an hour earlier,  but the crowd coming out looked like there was no way we would have been able to soak b4 dark. Til next tide.

Rastafar-gone
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[vdisney]

Oh H@ll yeah Rasta Man, stoked for you brother

[sasquatch]

Don't even remember what that feels like.

Just that it's pretty damn good.

Right on Josh

[Latimeria]

Don't even remember what that feels like.

I'm right there with you....

Well done Josh!  It looks like I have to start a 2024 list now!  I can't believe these are the first sharks posted this year!

[jrodda]

Great report, great looking soup!

[j.rasta]

Thanks guys, might get back out again this weekend but still up in the air.

They're definitely around, and no one seems to fish for them much anymore

Conditions are only gonna get better as the summer progresses, hopefully I'll have more time to get after em .