LJ Variety Pack

[steveooo]

Originally Posted by jorluivil

How'd you do with those pieces of bait I gave you?

Nada. Dragged them around for 20 min before calling it a day.

Originally Posted by lowprofile

Nice fish ! Did you hit the deeper piles or the ones just outside the kelp

the kelp?

This was all shallow, in about 115-120 feet

Originally Posted by Kahouna

What? The picture I took of you holding them didn't come out?

Meh. I guess it came out, but its not the most flattering pic. I have a knack for somehow making fish look smaller in pictures. I need to perfect my photo poses

Originally Posted by THE DARKHORSE

Wow. That sabiki-rig in the first photo is huge!

Yeah, I gave up completely. My dirty little secret is that I actually like codding, even though I rarely resort to it. I even make my own rock-cod rigs, complete with gaudy beads, feathers and 7/0 hooks. I was going to make a post on how to make them and title it "Giving Up- 101" or "Throwing In The Towel" or something like that

Originally Posted by THE DARKHORSE

Some good eats right there, Steve.

Assuming you wear a size twelve shoe, I'd say 4 lbs 12 oz's on the red? That's one tasty critter of the deep!

Good foot estimating skills, I do wear a 12. The red went 7 lbs 12 oz. It was kind of a freak. Shocked me when I put it on the scale.



Here it is about to be sliced



While a 7 lb red is decent and tasty consolation prize, I can't say I was satisfied when I got back to the beach. I started the day I was hoping for a fish that could puke up a red that size


Here's hoping to no more codding this year

[RK]

Rad read Steve....
Props on tying your own snazzy rigs too they look good....
Youd make a great fly fisherman buddy.

[Regor]

Nice dinner variety there Steve!

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[lamb]

Nice goin' Steve.

The red sure is sweetly big, but that treefish and rubberlip are as big are in their max class size