Re: Very Nice Fish!

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: : Dan : I sure hope you took a pictur of that 10 lb fish because we would all love to share in that special moment. : I fish LJ year round and with the exception of the summer time there are only a very small hand full of dedicated kayak fishermen on the water at one time and almost no PB’rs. : There are so few of us that we always take the time to stop and chat. : It’s like we own the whole place for as far as you can see. Then the water warms, the YT show up and the whole place gets VERY congested and the people get mean. : I guess it’s a combination of the overcast skies and the over crowding that makes me feel very sad to see what that place turns into during the summer. : On the bright side summer will end as quickly as it started and I will have the cove to myself once again. : John : In regard to the traffic Saturday....I went out about three-thirty pm until darkish. About seven I caught my first kayak yellow...about fifteen pounds on fifteen pound test off of the bull kelp. Had a long battle with a stringer of kelp in which I eventually won. Frustrating when you can see the fish thirty feet down and the kelp seems to be winning...lol...oh, the traffic...Lots of pbers and a few 'yaks in the afternoon...all located pretty much in the same acre of water, it seemed. I stayed between the kelp and the canyon, inshore of the mess until it cleared out a bit. Water was a deep blue and the vis was forever. Had a huge yellow (maybe 40#+) go off on bait right next to me....unfortunately I was bored and trolling two lines( 1 mack and 1 dine) and trying to sabiki up some bait when it slashed the surface...so I lost the dine and kept the greenback going and kept a jigstick handy if I saw it again. : : Didn't catch anything on the mack but a skiff being driven by an a$$hole going about twenty-five knots. thought I was going to lose a finger for a moment there as my reel threw great loops as it was backlashing...a boat hits your bait at twenty five and the clicker on a 3/0 with 30# won't stop the 'lash. scared up a half dozen candybar spanish off of the bull kelp and shortly thereafter was having fun trying to keep a yellow out of the salad on light line and a long rod....LOVE IT! Also released a nice fat ten pound calico that ate a candybar mack on the way in. : : One of the party boats reported a kayak in the counts...if I'd of landed the skiff, I might have reported it. Watch the jerks out there...there seems to be a bit of jealousy at times..I've been waked twice( as in running straight at me and turning at the last minute...drunk twenty-somethings both times...once in SD bay...once in LJ) on purpose and this guy Saturday knew I was trolling, just probably thought he'd miss the line and cut across my stern. : : It's not the quantity of fishermen that bother me...it's the quality...or lack of it. : : -BD

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