Saturday 3/14

[Bert Vega]

Slept in and headed down to LJ solo. Got to the beach around 9am parked and on the water around 9:30. Headed out and made some bait and started working my way out to deeper water. Around 10;30 or so I ran over a large mark. About 20-30 feet from the ocean floor. Dropped a iron down and cranked up about 50' dropped again. This time on the third or fourth wind. Rod loads up big time. Drag starts screaming and I was like hell yeah. Fish stopped running after a few seconds. I start working the fish up. It is super heavy not sure what it is. Get it about 50-60' up and it dives straight back to the floor. I pull on the rod trying to turn the fish up. Then SNAP my rod breaks in half, braid pops at end of broken rod. Fish and half my rod gone. Don't know what it was but it was heavy. I think it may have been a BSB. So I am bummed but what you going to do. Keep fishing with the other rods I have. So I start looking for . Spent the whole day looking around working as much area as I could cover. Saw some marks, got hit once but shook the hook. Ended up doing some rock fishing and caught a nice ling, salmon grouper and a few reds. Weather was perfect sea was pretty flat had a nice relaxing day. Back on the beach around 8pm loaded up and left for home. So much life in the water right now. Saw a million birds, hundreds of dolphins, and of course seals. Looking forward to the next time out.