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06-02-2013, 06:15 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: San Diego
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Finally!!!
I finally have a story to tell. I've been hooking into some large fish with poor results for some time now. The hook has been pulling out. Haven't been breaking lines. I sometimes wonder if braid and flouro doesn't have enough give to it. Ran into a new friend at the launch. He got to see me earn my name as a wave crashed over me on takeoff. We got out and sloooowly made bait. All I was getting were spanish macs and smelt. Then some sardines showed up.
I dragged some sardines around for awhile and got discouraged. Told my new friend I'd see him later and headed for deeper water. In about 90 feet of water, something hit a trolled sardine and took me for a ride. I fought it for around 40 minutes and couldn't get it closer than 38 ft from the yak according to the fishfider, at which time it would head straight back to the bottom. I was taking my time, did have the drag really tight and keeping a lot of pressure on the fish. I thought the dry spell was over. Not! The hook came unbuttoned. What a terrible feeling. I then continued to deeper water with more trolled sardines and decided to drift back to shore and call it a day. Caught an 18.5 in calico on the troll and released it. After a sea lion robbed me of my last dine I went to play around in the kelp for awhile. I tied off to a stringer and was tossing some plastics. After about half an hour the water erupted around me with about 20 crashing fish and birds diving everywhere. I thought it was a school of barries. I tied on a jig and tossed it out. They weren't barries. I got a nice yellowtail 39 inch fork length. Funny thing, it was on my plastics rod which was spooled with mono, no braid or fluoro. Hmmm... |
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06-02-2013, 06:31 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: La Jolla
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Way to go! Good looking fish!
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06-02-2013, 06:36 PM
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Vista California, Gonzaga, San Quintin, Asuncion, Mag Bay
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Awesome tail, heard about a few today.
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06-02-2013, 06:41 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: San Diego
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Congrats on your Yellowtail!! Braid has no stretch to it and often times people will pull the hook right out. A bigger hook, back off on your drags and use a rod with a softer tip will help. Last year I used braid for the first time on a sport boat and I could not believe how you can really feel your fish, so much so that I was scared to pull on it. I just took my time and landed 1 yellowtail and 3 Bluefin. Hope this helps.
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06-02-2013, 06:54 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Carlsbad Ca.
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Nice fish. Congratulations.
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06-02-2013, 06:56 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Waiting to launch
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Way to go Dave!
I'll get one someday too. |
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06-02-2013, 08:07 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Nice!
Sorry about the one that got away
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06-03-2013, 10:45 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Big Rock, WindanSea, La Jolla
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Beautiful. Saturday evening they were out side the kelpline under a big area
of circling terns but refused to bite, glad you got one to eat! |
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06-03-2013, 10:59 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2010
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Big Fish Dave...Congrats! Way to keep working at it. Jim
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06-03-2013, 11:03 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: So Cal
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so YOU'RE the guy with the green kayak that the people on shore were talking about! way to go!!!
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06-03-2013, 11:36 AM
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Location: Oceanside
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Nice gonna start chasing them soon as soon as I get the halibut monster off my back.
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06-03-2013, 11:53 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Vista
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Nice one!!! Great way to nab one
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06-03-2013, 09:51 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: San Diego, CA
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Excellent!!!
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06-03-2013, 11:25 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 2,384
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Persistence pays off. Wtg.
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06-04-2013, 03:55 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: san diego
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cool story man!
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