A Day of Firsts

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Great day on Mission Bay today!

My first spottie.



The spotties were hungry today



My first halibut



My first time using this net (also the last...)



After safely releasing the cuda, I had to cut my hook out of the net. I don't reccommend the Promar folding net. The engineers at Promar put a lot of research into designing a mesh that you will never get a hook out of. I thought about paddling up to OEX and seeing if I could return it.

My first broken lure.



I hooked into a big spottie. As I brought him to the surface, little bait fish started exploding out of the water right next to my yak. When I got him up I saw that he had swallowed my Rapala. Just the lip was sticking out of his gaping maw. I grabbed the lip of the lure and the fish went nuts. The lure cracks in half and the fish falls back into the water. I'm left holding the plastic lip. Right after snapping this picture, my drop-shot rod goes bendo and I pull up...

My first lizard fish



After losing my killer lure, the fishing dropped off. I only caught two more spotties.
It was a beautiful day to be out there. Check out the snow on those mountains!



The score for the day was:
10 spotties
2 barracuda
1 halibut
1 lizard fish
1 lost lure
1 ruined net