Either way I win!!!!!!!!

[yakrider]

Second place...
definition: the first loser

even though I was technically "the first loser"
with my second place...I still won...
how may you ask?
this was my very FIRST yellow from La Jolla...
and there were alot of hours on the water to get this YT....
this was my eleventh trip...and most of the trips
were not your typical launch at 5am off at 10am...
we're talkin' the launch at 5am off the water at
6pm kinda ass kickin' days...
there was even one day last month,
whilst yo-yoing, I had the yellows, litterally,
360 degrees around me, frothing all around, and what did I do....
y'all er gonna love this
I set the yoyo rod in the holder, to grab the surface jig stick,
with adrenaline ripping and heart rate at 110mph, I turned round to grab the jig stick,
only to find the line all wadded up...(still not sure how, but I must have, at some point,
hit the lever to put the reel in free spool with my elbow or something, and the reel was sitting in the rod holder all wadded up up)
I screamed like little girl... WTF? now, I'm in a frenzied panic, trying to get the gigantic birdnest undone, heart rate is now up to 200mph,
while the fish are goin' off all around me, I'm losin' it...
OH F#$%, Sh*t , OH MY God, C'mon idiot...boy was I bummed...
the fish were so close, I could done a friggin' flip cast 20 feet away and got one...dumbass...talk about panic...the worst part was...(in retrospect)
I had a yoyo iron 60-70 feet down in the water still that
I coulda (shoulda) just started to reel in, since the meter was lit up also...
and not only that...but I had another friggin' yoyo set up in the rod holder...hell I coulda just thrown that at 'em...
why didn't I throw that? what a knucklehead...severe knucklheaditus!!!
well...I blew it...no excuses...I blew it...
lesson learned: take a second to focus, evaluate, and adapt....
That WILL NEVER...EVER happen...again!!!!EVER!!!
so...there you have it....the agony of defeat...
and now...the thrill of victory...
so you see...I AM the winner!!!
it was one on one...me against the fish...
and I won this time...22 lbs of glory....
Finally...
after several trips to La Jolla...
and comming up empty handed...
22lbs 1oz...not a monster...but...
my first LJ YT...and in a Baytubers tourney...how cool is that?
major league stoke!!!!!!!



gonna have to get a bigger ice chest


oh...and...It defintely shortens the learning
curve to hang out with this guy...
if your gonna try to play the piano...take a lesson....
THE DARKHORSE...prefishing Saturday...


Congrats to Patrick, too...







and of course, congrats to to doardo50 Dave for the actual tourney win....after all...he did...get the cash$$$