Hell of a day at NP Harbor

[caddisx]

Launched at 6am and made my way to the bait barge. Water was 68 degrees and glass. Picked up some fresh squid and hit around the barge for a bit. Bam... legal calico with the half day boat watching. Make my way out to the kelp beds. I have one squid on a dropper and on on a fly line drifting the edge of the beds. The fly line starts to scream... I wait for a couple of secs and set the hook... now it is really screaming. I grab the other reel and start winding, get it in and place it behind me. I go to grab the reel and a hear boom splash. I turn to see my rod and reel going under... FU(k ahhhhhhhhhhh damn damn DAMN. Now I am supper pissed at myself but I still have whatever taking line going for deeper water. For the next five minutes I get some line, it takes some. I start to make some headway then SNAP... AHHHHHHH. FUUUUUUUUUUUU(K. I have no doubt that the people in those beautiful homes that look over the ocean could hear me. I composed myself... Took a while and went back to fishing. Ended up with 6 bass (2 sand 4 calico). One other weird thing happened out on the water today. While I was drifting, I hear a boat coming at me. I turn to see a sheriff boat charging hard right toward me. He passed within 20 feet of me going near full boar, just about tipped me. He stopped just short of one of those little beaches, turned around and left. I'm thinking what the hell just happened. When I got back in the harbor I flagged down a sheriff boat (don't know if it was the one or not) and told my story. Officer said they had been having a number of illegal landings... There wasn't a boat in sight when he ran past me. Hell of a day.