Marathon Day with 2 PBs

[j.rasta]

Hit it long and hard yesterday. Started out at crystal pier at 1130AM, saw some mini macks in a few buckets and fished til 2PM and made bout 2 dozen baits. Headed over to Troy Boys lifeguard patrol zone round 230 and soaked a few older baits while I waited for his shift to end. Pretty slow in the bay til I finally get a bite to stick on an Uber fresh mack tail. Scrappy lil 30" bat was subdued and scared a few swimmers outta the swim zone that was it til Troys shift ended and we headed to the surf.

Get to the surf right at dark and we can tell it's weedy and only gonna get worse with the rising tide. Give it a shot anyway and on my 1st cast within 2mins I'm bendo! Weird fight Lotta head shake and dead weight, lil Leo covered in weeds? Wiggles? Hali? Nope big fat grumpy checkered bass! Ate a whole 8" mack!



Stoked on my new PB calico, I bomb another mack out and  within 5 mins we both get devoured by kelp monsters and decide it's not gonna get any better tonight. So we make the decision to haul ass over to MB to soak in the calmness of the bay.

Made the right move but it was pretty weedy and kelpy there too but much more manageable. We start getting baits chewed within 10mins, but nothing that will commit til I bomb out an older bait. After i casted I poured an offering in the agua for the fish gods and sent up a smoke signal. As I exhaled I see my glow stick wiggle then my 14'r loads up and starts screaming! Get to it and get it outta the rod holder and lay into a legit bat! Battled her for a good 7-8 mins and Troy got his 1st shot to sand hand a big bat. He lucked out as she was whipped and swam into a floating kelp patty and flipped upside-down and was already debarbed.

Legit 45"r





Now It was Troys turn, he kept getting small bites and a few slow short runs but we stuck it out. He gets picked up bout an hr after I landed my fish but the bat never had the hook in it. We give it one more soak and literally as he's bout to say phuq it I'm over it, he goes straight bendo and is on a donkey!



Thought he was gonna get spooled on the initial run, this is his 1st legit bat so he didn't have his drag cranked too tight, after a blistering run he gets her turned and went to work battling this mud marlin. Back and forth they went and he finally got her close enough to see she was an absolute tank! I guided him through the landing dance and got her dragged up the mud!

Beasty Bat!



Jus shy of 48"





Called it a night after that I was beat and troy was supposed to have left at 1245 and it was now 2AM! Helluva long day but worth it to take a shot at a hammer, catch a new PB and see Troy get his 1st legit Bat and break in his new surf set up on a monster bat and have the reassurance that it'll handle a beast!

I'll be back in the surf b4 the end of the week, but it seems like the low tide is the time to avoid the salad.

Rastafar-gone B)<===*~~~

[xjchad]

That's a long day for sure!
Glad to start seeing some more beasts on the sand!

[sasquatch]

Glad I didn't meet up with you whippersnappers. At 230 I would have gotten home just in time to leave for work.

[vdisney]

Nice checker, did you put a tape to it?  Congrats on the beastly bats..............Verne

[Tim524]

Nice to see some Bats on the chew again, nice job

[raychavez91]

Awesome job guys

[Latimeria]

That was a righteous session guys and you made it work! I'll update the contest later.
Well done!

[lamnidae]

That bass is HUGE!

[Pinoyfisher]

Awesome! Gonna probably hit the bay tomorrow with some former coworkers who want to know what "this whole fishing is all about"... LOL!!   

[faster u fool]

killer day right there rasta man.

[TRON]

Dude that was a epic night...  Josh your the man!!!! I'm stoked to be able to fish with you.. you know your shot, your die hard, you don't make excuses!!! You get out there and slay them.. it means alot to get the call. U got the spot next time I get the whaler to la jolla... I'm going to try to make bait for Tuesday. If we fishing Tuesday.. I'm hooked after that battle, so I hope so! And that bass was massive. I know there's a contest going on right now And I hope you win. You deserve it.