Re: The La Jolla Cove Tournament

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: : : : : : : If my memory is correct there were 123 fishermen in the tourney with 40 of them fishing in the Mission Bay division. I fished in the offshore division and so to me it was the LJ Cove Tourney. : From my personnel observations if I was going to give the event a name I would have called it the Jim Sammons & A-1 Bail Bonds fishing tournament for their support and high profile at both the fishing grounds and the BB. : About 10:00 I decided that the YT might not show and started drifting the bottom with plastics with one pole while fly lining a Mack on the other. I was fishing in 80 feet of water just off the edge of the kelp. : I caught the ling with a 6" brown Fish Trap. I believe there was a much larger one weighed in at the BB. : I also want to congratulate YAK ATTACK for his first place in the bay division, he had a good strategy and it paid off. Way to go Al! : I launched at 5am. The sky was clear and a BIG bright moon lit the whole place up. The moon was so bright that I didn't even need to use my flashlight. The cove was flat and the surf was small and inviting. From the beach I could see the mother ship anchored at the buoy line. : : : But the pleasant launch conditions were only a trap set by the ocean to lure kayak fisherman out into the open seas. Once I got out past the point a very heavy fog settled in and then a cold brisk wind began to blow. The fog (in one form or another) stayed all day. One kayaker I talked to said that he had become lost in the fog and that the experience had convinced him to stop and buy a compass on the way home. If the fog was good it was because it kept the PB's off the water and I only saw one party boat as well. : : : Personally I only managed to catch one just barely legal Lean Cod. The people who did catch good-sized fish were the people who have been consistently catching fish all season, which is the way it should be. : : : Back at the BB the many give a ways were raffled out in order of value with the best being given first. I think that I got just about the last one which was a drift shute and a T-shirt from Allen's'. For my $25. entree fee I got an all you could eat and drink BB, drift shute, package of Fish Traps, event T- shirt and an excuse to fish all morning. Not a bad deal, not bad at all. : : : Mr. Jim Sammons was every where and every thing happened as if it had been planned to perfection. : : : I'm not a tournament guy but I'm gland that I didn't miss this one. : : : John : : : : You walked away with a heck of a lot more stuff than $25 worth. The drift chute alone is at least that. : : Is is more accurate to refer to it as the La Jolla Cover Tourney? I listed the photos under San Diego Tourney because that's how jceviche referred to it. : : Good job on the Lingasaur. I don't read of many hooking up on those out of La Jolla. You must have a special technique. What plastic were you using? : : jas

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