Beer Bellys

It started with one phone call on Monday, President’s Day. Greenjeans just got back from LJ and claimed he saw lots of Yellows being caught. Although none came his way. He suggested I might give it a try. As a back up, I emailed Adi with lots of questions. Adi’s reply: “We have Yellows year-round at La Jolla.” What did I expect from Adi? Hell’s bells, I decided to give it a try on Tuesday. The super high tide prevented a beach launch. And a couple of foot-pumping dingy-inflatable fisherman with a small trolling motor made for entertainment while attempting a surf launch. I laughed my ass off, until I saw them bring a huge WSB. Then I cried my ass off. Much to everyone’s surprise, a WSB bite broke wide open around 8am and lasted an hour. If you had live squid, you were in there, otherwise you just got in the way. I was given a couple of squid by Owen, then quickly proceeded to farm my only hook-up of the day. I must have seen at least 10 WSB that day that were over 40lbs. Tuesday nite, I get a phone call from San Deigo. It’s my old friend Adi. He wants to know what’s really going on at LJ. Hey Adi, there’s WSB at LJ all year round. On Wednesday, I met Greenjeans and both of us were hoping I wasn’t having a LSD flashback on Tuesday. And, that there really was a WSB bite going on. As far as the live squids go, I brought a 6-pac of Heinekens for some horse- trading in case I couldn’t find any squids. Lucky for me Greensjeans found a boater who was giving squids away. So we were loaded and ready to go. On Wednesday, the bite started at 9am, and lasted an hour. First Greenjeans got hooked up with a 55lb WSB, then Dave Easton with his two. I start paddling over to their spot and notice Pat Esdees with a look of despair on his face. “Need any squid?” I asked. Pat came running. 5 minutes later, Pat’s on within the same area. He pulls up a monster WSB. Finally it’s my turn. I’ve got a nice yellow. I bring it to gaff, took a swing and although I missed the fish, I broke my line. My yellow is free swimming near my yak. And by the grace of God Almighty, I get one more swing and it’s a hit. Right after that, two guys in a small boat simultaneously hook up with WSB. After they landed their fish, they call me over and show me their earlier catch. A 43lb halibut. > > What a day. I was like being in the middle of a Discovery Channel documentary. Three days later my mom is cooking up fish soup with some Yellowtail I had given her. She calls me at work to tell me she found a hook with a short little nylon string connected to it in the Yellowtail’s mouth. I told her to keep it, but if she found a Heineken in its belly, well, that was mine. While she enjoyed Yellowtail soup, I took the belly meat, diced it, boiled it and turned it into a Tuna Salad Sandwich. Mmmm Yummy. PS. If the formatting is all screwed up, it's Adi fault. Yani

[steveooo]

Great post Yani!!!

[dorf]

Thanks for the post.
That really makes my mouth water.

[esdees]

Thanks again for the squid, Yani.

[T-Rex]

Great report Yani! The end result looks tasty.

[Handymansd]

OK Yani, I have decided that when... uh... If I catch a fish I am going to have to call in the squid favor, with having you help me prepare my catch! That looks SO good! Great Post!

[Oolie]

NOM! sandwich.

[lamb]

Great story!

A report gets a gold medal for mis-formatting the post!!! I swear, I've never seen a more screwed up formatting in a single post. It took me a while to clean it up.

Some valuable lessons to learn from Yani's post:

• do not use pictures that are 2000pix + wide or so... It's going to make your post so wide that 99% of people will have to scroll left & right... people that have smaller resolution monitors... Resize your pictures down to no more than 800pix wide...
• do not write your report in Word or other fancy text editor and then copy and paste directly in to the message board. The board will attempt to take all the fancy formatting, and not being so powerful as Word, you will end up with some unpredictable formatting result. If you really want to use Word to make sure your spelling is cool, before you past it to the board, paste the text first in simple text editor such as Notepad. That will get rid of the fancy formatting.
• Avoid having Yani take your pictures with a big catch on the water unless you don't mind looking at them all over the Internet when the Greek finds time to put the report together. Yeah he seems to have a better camera now, but after all these years, he still didn't seem to learn that other people's story is just that - other people's story.

[Dan W.]

Fantastic story and I love how you always include pics of the final product! Looks delicious

[dos ballenas]

Yani,
Nice meeting you out there... too bad about tuesday... I fished monday and got skunked, no squid: no bites... tuesday on the other hand, well, you know why I was paddling in early: ...glad you got one yani... I shoulda tried for a wsb but I had that sinking sensation!
peace and pescado,
Owyn

Thanks for all your help Adi! I can't remember if I posted of picture of you with a WSB... Where's is that picture?? I'll be fishing tomorrow am, how about you, fishing or wishing?

[lamb]

I'm wishin club these days.

Is OK. Won't be forever.

Wishin' you and all muho luck.



I heard it was WFO today...

My crystal ball said it'll stay like that manjana.

[lamb]

...NOT

[PerryC]

Yani,
Beer? Where's the Ouzo and Fresca to celebrate

Perry