Fresh off the horn...

[THE DARKHORSE]

Originally Posted by Iceman

how do you get a giant squid on the game clip

I'm not sure. Gaff and release has always been the preferred method of handling The Locusts of the Sea.

Originally Posted by 467echo

so you put it on the game clip before you "released" it?

Gaff and release? It's a new sport, haven't you heard?

Originally Posted by Drake

I'm picturing a green back on the game clip lol

I would never treat a Pacific Greenback Mackerel like that. I have way too much respect for those little fellers...we're on the same team!

Originally Posted by Billy V

-There had better be a few new castles headed your way.

Remember - You are all sworn to the oath of omerta` ...

Sand Castles maybe. I'm just trying to win a one-inch trophy!

Originally Posted by RK

Lemme guess you were "MAKING BAIT FOR HALIBUT"

I'm starting to think you're good luck, Ryan. Are you going fishing the first day of next month? Good luck is hard to come by these days...I'm fresh out!

Originally Posted by Tman

I am digging your color coordinating skills...

Thanks, bro. Things have changed out there, Martin. There's girls now! Besides, the sales clerk at Neiman Marcus told me black, is, and forever will be, in style. The fish seem to like it, too!

Originally Posted by Handymansd

Whatever happened to your old checkered converse?

You mean these old things? Converse, Vans, old skate shoes and fish...all have a shelf life. These days, I can barely afford shoes! Got any tape?

Originally Posted by driftwood

I say huge halibutt. How else would you explain your soaked waders

Humboldt Squid? A power-boat zooming up to ask, "having any luck"? Kayaking gets me wet?

Originally Posted by bus kid

Nice PA but your are supposed to post the pics of it here.

http://www.bigwatersedge.com/bwevb/s...ad.php?t=11394

perhaps the mods will move for you.

kinda small bat ray on the clip though.

Just because you're a pro angler doesn't mean you don't catch small Rays! Very close guess...

Originally Posted by Pescavore1

If you zoom up on the top right corner of his sunglasses by 5000%, you can clearly see...something I say it's a toad yellow

Toad Yellows! Where? Did I miss another bite? What happened to fresh off the horn reports?

Originally Posted by deepdvr

It looks like this happened sometime after your yellow but before your halibut. Could it be that the grinch is back on the slam-wagon????

Well well, if it's not my favorite little detective. Ah yes, the kayak fisherman carbon dating method: Very similar to that game we played as kids...you know, that one with two cans and a piece of string? Very effective at times, though.

Originally Posted by bigbarrels

15 foot GWS?

Great White Sharks? In the Pacific Ocean? No freakin' way!

Originally Posted by T-Rex

I'd normally call BS with no pics, but in this case I'll buy the "lousy photog" story!

There's a lousy photog in all of us...guilty as charged.

Originally Posted by roadx

we need to get back out again soon.
interested in doing some hoop netting??

nice halibut

Hoop netting? Is that the round thing you use to bring large Halibut up from piers? If so, lets do it! Crystal Pier is a good area in the month of October! I only free-dive when it comes to bugs. Which is just another way to find areas holding Halibut.

Originally Posted by embo

Cool Hat!!!

Thanks. The East County, sand-dune-lovin' chicks seem to like it, too. Yellowtail, White Sea Bass and Halibut on the other hand...not so much.

Originally Posted by GregAndrew

Is that the rest of the WCW competition on the gameclip?

I'm just trying to make sure I don't get beaten by a girl. Much less, a girl without a sonar or G.P.S---that would sting a bit!

You of all people, should know West Coast Whoppers is a heated battle to the finish, Greg. I would never confine my WCW competitors to a game clip; gaff and release, maybe...

Originally Posted by wiredantz

YOU GUYS ARE ALL WRONG!!! ON THE GAMECLIP JOSH IS HOLDING GEORGE VHF RADIO!!!!

Is it a ,"floating", Standard Horizon with internal G.P.S.? Oh, wait a sec, that's mine! You had me going for a bit...

Originally Posted by jorluivil

He's that good!!!

Don't believe the hype!

Originally Posted by ChefT

You beat me to it.......
I was thinking the same thing driving (passenger) home from la....
GEORGE'S RADIO.... but i figured it had to be at least half way to PB by now...

>>>> SO wAiT ....IS that where the Fishys aRe?????

I'm going to have to reconfigure my code and cryptic writing style. You guys are coming along quick! The squid-bed off of Crystal Pier is ripe for the taking, but don't tell a soul.

Originally Posted by lterrero

I keep the gameclip

I'll trade you for a Banana-Hammock, big boy!

Originally Posted by sharonkayak

josh takes fish off game clip for picture.

fish is slimy falls out of boat.

halibut goes back into the ocean..

I told you not to tell anyone, Sharon. Don't make me break out my super- secret, photo stash. I'd hate to have play my trump card this early in the game.

Originally Posted by The Kid

The 10 lb line class record for halibut. Just a guess or maybe an idea. Nice on whatever it may be.

I'm pretty sure the 2 lb line class, IGFA record anyway, for Halibut is close to forty pounds? I don't even want to know what the record is for 10 lb. It's the same with Striped Marlin and such. There's tons of fish over a hundred pounds caught on 2 lb. That a great achievement, but not exactly my style. When I caught my 51 lb 5 oz Halibut on 20 lb line, I never even bothered to check the records.

Originally Posted by yakrider

all right already! wudjagit!

Five dolla' and a one inch trophy!

Originally Posted by JoeGoFish

...made me look... doh!

Me, too. Dammit, Jay!




First off, let me apologize for the teaser photo in the original post. That photo just made me laugh and I hope some of you got a chuckle out of it, too. Anyone with a Go Pro camera, most assuredly, has a couple hundred of these silly photos of themselves. That, "is this thing on" pose, has been very well documented by yours truly. If I had a nickel for every time I thought, I just recorded the sickest video of all time...to later find out, I only took another silly picture of myself, I'd be rich!

I think bus kid was the closest, chiming in with the guess of small Ray. If this were the game-show, The Price Is Right, you all would have been better off betting $1. On the end of the game-clip isn't a monster Halibut, or even close for that matter.

It's just a Halibut worth 83 Points!

Being the Pacific Ocean, though, most of you have realized by now---there's plenty of Yellowtail and White Sea Bass around, too. I think everyone and their Grandmother pulled on Yellowtail until they were blue in the face this month! Even blind trolling was getting the job done for a while there. Here's a recent Yellowtail that absolutely exploded on a well placed surface-iron. Lets just say I almost went for a swim on this one.

This fish put up an arm-breaking fight with straight spectra on a ten foot Super Seeker. I saw this school in 75' of water, directly over bull-kelp that was five feet below the surface. Honestly, I didn't even want to make the cast. In recent years, when fishing straight mono, I would have passed on these fish. Being a fisherman, though, just as the school was slowly making their way to the end of my range...I couldn't help myself. I'm a sucker for pain, I guess.

The same goes for White Sea Bass. There's no shortage of hungry White Sea Bass in Southern California.

Take this recently caught specimen for example. If you study their patterns, moods, and what exactly turns them on, along with a couple thousand other fine-tuned details that change daily...White Sea Bass are available. Here's a free tip: I don't think I'm giving too much away in saying, they're fond of squid. Unless Hubbs is creating some kind of new, half-retarded gene-pool, with the same brood stock year-after- year...this will never change, either. Food for thought.

Which is precisely why these "fresh off the horn" reports are silly in the first place. Unlike my Halibut above, some of these fish I speak of are huge. Not to mention, swimming within large schools for that matter. Which, obviously, makes them easier to find. Take Yellowtail for example: they've been here in great numbers since April! Just like last year...hmmm, very interesting. I've had clients inquire recently from out of town asking, "how long is this hot-bite going to last"?...after word somehow made it out of state! And that is something I don't have the answer to. I don't have a Crystal Ball; nor would I want one. That wold take the fun out of the adventure before you even disembark!

I can say with confidence that, if you spend more time fishing and less time thinking about it, results will follow. Depending on your innate, fish-I.Q, mileage will most certainly vary. If you missed The bite, That bite, A bite, or aren't sure if you know what a bite is---GO FISHING!