all feathered up

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ever have one of those days where your the ONLY kayak on the water and the birds seem to know this?

surprisingly the seals didn't pay much attention. which was good.

I was out for blood today, shark was on the menu. they must have had low stock since it seems somebody filled their plate before i arrived.

made it out to 300ft of water and set a drift. i chummed and chummed and chummed some more. I was expecting a lot more activity than i had received, however I did hook into a Mako of about 5ft. he made quick work of my 100lb mono leader with 8/0 circle hook (ill add pic later). had a solid tail slap, followed by 2 more and a run near some kelp in 80ft of water. only had the mac and missed the hook in its nose, so I'm assuming it was a little guy. Drifted by some buoys in 130ft and picked up a small 7gill. i didn't know they pupped down this way. it looked to be about 3ft give or take a few inches. got it up to the yak and while i was deciding where on the deck he would go to be unhooked and photographed he split the 40lb mono leader i was running and slowly sank back down.

took some vid early in the day. fed a scuba chicken some lizard fish and a mac to get him to leave my baits alone. we both left happy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nucPx...ature=youtu.be

wind picked up around noon and the white caps followed... along with the sport fleet.

and a pterodactyl followed me to the launch.