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10-27-2008, 11:43 AM
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Join Date: May 2005
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Islanders Conquer the Cortes! Photo report
The Bank is an incredible place, a set of kelp beds and rocks 100 miles out in the middle of nowhere. You'd never have known it on Friday, when the seas were calm, the sun warm, and the bonito and yellowtail and bonito (it was 'bone zone' - those things were thick!) came to play. I'll let the photos tell the rest of the story. Day 1     Day 2 - Not quite as nice out there   Playing in the swells rolling across the infamous Bishop Rock big-wave break  Twenty minutes later   Day 3 - San Clemente Island    The payoff!  
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10-27-2008, 11:59 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: W of 5
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Capital F!
Wait, wait, wait. The NoCal boyz [and PAL] got the good weather? I bet that was an incredible trip! Thanks. Z |
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10-27-2008, 12:13 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: San Pedro
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Awesome simply awesome
great pic report  signed the jealous guys from the early October 2.5 day trip cant wait till we get another try at that rock! the Islander rocks! 
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10-27-2008, 12:14 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: San Diego
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Looks epic...
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10-27-2008, 12:15 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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Holy crap. I gotta get on one of those trips.
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10-27-2008, 12:46 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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AWESOME!!!!!
Great pics Paul!
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10-27-2008, 01:11 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
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Well, we got one day of good weather. Sat was windy, cold, foggy and practically dead at the bank.
We found a good zone of 'tails, but it was hard to get through the bones. Most YT came on bait, a few on metal. Would have been nice to get a second shot at it before the weather turned. There were only about 3 more each day Sat and Sun. Still, the location was awesome and the fishing - while it lasted - was excellent. |
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10-27-2008, 01:24 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: South of La Jolla...
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Too cool.. Looked like fun..
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10-27-2008, 01:30 PM
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fishy
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: San Diego
Posts: 219
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Great report and pics!!!
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10-27-2008, 01:39 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Score!
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10-27-2008, 01:47 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: San Pedro
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i am not gonna look at this post again
 but that "Playing in the swells rolling across the infamous Bishop Rock big-wave break" picture is an epic, perfect, desk top, poster, once in a life time, wish it was me type picture Great job with the camera there Pal now i swear i will not look again
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10-27-2008, 02:32 PM
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Those combers were popping up on the reef then subsiding into nothing, so we decided to move right onto the shelf. We're waiting, and waiting, and waiting... but the ocean is as flat as 10 ft swells can be. Finally some larger rollers appear on the horizon. The first two look ok, and Mark takes off for the shoulder. I start to grab my camera as the first one lifts me and there it is - a freaking wall of water bearing down and getting steeper and steeper. Paddling furiously, I feel like I'm going nowhere. The giant lifts me up and the lip seems to curl. Boom! It washes clear over my head and next thing I know I'm free-falling down the back side. And there's another 25 ft monster on the way! I paddle through two more peaking waves, and finally the set is done. Made it! Mark and I let loose a couple of primal shouts. They hear us over on the Islander, a 1/4 mile away. We were the lunchtime entertainment. So what can I say? We were in a BAD place. The only escape was right over the reef, one set of submerged boilers after the other. Where I was, in the center of it all, there was no margin for error. I only just made it through. The upside - no surf launch will ever look big again. And at least if we'd crashed, there was no boneyard to wash into - but man, I'm relieved to have escaped the experience. It wouldn't have been good... |
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10-27-2008, 07:52 PM
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Junior
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: LBC
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EPIC!  that shot climbing the face is awesome, great report. Glad you all made it...
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10-28-2008, 12:15 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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what an awesome report, thanks for the pictures!!!
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10-28-2008, 07:51 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: On The Water
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I am sorry to have missed this trip! One word sum up... EPIC!!
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10-29-2008, 10:32 AM
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Junior
Join Date: Oct 2008
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awesome trip
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10-31-2008, 11:55 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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That picture or Pierpont paddling up that giant wall is AWESOME!
 I can't belive nobody took advantage of them Cortez sets and paddled in on them? ZED would do it!  25' pffffttttI'd have to change my shorts. |
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