Rumor has it.... - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

JohnMckroidJr · 07-01-2025, 02:21 AM

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Originally Posted by MITCHELL

....... All the sudden it was game on. My first major sled ride .... when I went to gaff all my senses were Max Hypervigilance winding all the way through I finally stuck a gaff in my first wsb from a kayak with iron hanging from the tip of my rod.............

Awesome!

Congratulations! Photos?

MITCHELL · 07-01-2025, 04:49 AM

Cradling it, as it takes its final heart beats.
I thank my lord and savor for this great fish.
Heading back in early a.m. still dark.i can hear the surf up ahead. I was prepared to flip had everything leashed down. As a rookie kayak coming in the day light was tuff enough let alone in the dark. So I get close to the danger zone and just Bonsia it....ten thousand years of long life

and sure enough couldn't holder straight or think fast enough or even see which side to paddle on.
Over turn I go thankfully I'm only in 3 ft of water. No big
deal I grab my kayak fish on leach and everything else.
Mission accomplished.
I'm the only one on a dark empty beach. I get my kayak dollie that was locked to a wood pole barrier and load up.for the long walk to my truck. Anybody that fishes LJ knows you can get a closer parking early morning than at the end of the day for night 🌙 fishing, excluding the parking lot. Pulling my kayak with squeaky wheels trying to be as quiet as possible last think I want to do is wake a local up. I'm hearing a patsy cline song in my head finally I reach my truck and have to load kayak up on my rack im tried first attempt no Bueno it comes ?rashing down bouncing off the concert street and BTW a concert st is a concrete st with alot of alleys that echo 🎶 👂 i listen to see if i woke anybody up from disturbing neighbors. Good nobody yelled at me I parked in.
Still dark by the time I got home and weigh my fish as the sun 🌞 was coming up 47lbs. But looked bigger I think my scale was off.

MITCHELL · 07-01-2025, 05:41 AM

Never tasted so good the morning after a sleepless night 🌙

MITCHELL · 07-01-2025, 05:45 AM

Couldn't be harder with pop up adds plus edit for misspelled words and getting picture download failure everytime

If you want pictures you have to go to my history posts in BWE I lost all my pictures in my old phone.

MITCHELL · 07-01-2025, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnMckroidJr

Awesome!

Congratulations! Photos?

Nice to know someone liked 👍 the read ...not wasted labor here....we all should be getting paid like the youtubers....ha ha.

MITCHELL · 07-01-2025, 07:04 AM

I talked my middle brother into going at night 🌙 and he got a 52lb wsb on frozen squid and I was comparing photos. He was no rookie to kayak fishing 😕

MITCHELL · 07-01-2025, 07:53 AM

Loosing the opportunity to get limits of albacore on the butterfly 🦋 bank for la Jolla wsb and yts in a kayak was a pretty good trade 😎

07-01-2025, 04:49 AM	#2
MITCHELL Sea Hunter Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Where ever I may roam where I lay my head I call home. Posts: 2,320	After kayaking my fish between my legs.... Cradling it, as it takes its final heart beats. I thank my lord and savor for this great fish. Heading back in early a.m. still dark.i can hear the surf up ahead. I was prepared to flip had everything leashed down. As a rookie kayak coming in the day light was tuff enough let alone in the dark. So I get close to the danger zone and just Bonsia it....ten thousand years of long life and sure enough couldn't holder straight or think fast enough or even see which side to paddle on. Over turn I go thankfully I'm only in 3 ft of water. No big deal I grab my kayak fish on leach and everything else. Mission accomplished. I'm the only one on a dark empty beach. I get my kayak dollie that was locked to a wood pole barrier and load up.for the long walk to my truck. Anybody that fishes LJ knows you can get a closer parking early morning than at the end of the day for night 🌙 fishing, excluding the parking lot. Pulling my kayak with squeaky wheels trying to be as quiet as possible last think I want to do is wake a local up. I'm hearing a patsy cline song in my head finally I reach my truck and have to load kayak up on my rack im tried first attempt no Bueno it comes ?rashing down bouncing off the concert street and BTW a concert st is a concrete st with alot of alleys that echo 🎶 👂 i listen to see if i woke anybody up from disturbing neighbors. Good nobody yelled at me I parked in. Still dark by the time I got home and weigh my fish as the sun 🌞 was coming up 47lbs. But looked bigger I think my scale was off. __________________ Duke Mitchell Last edited by MITCHELL; 07-01-2025 at 06:33 AM.

07-01-2025, 05:41 AM	#3
MITCHELL Sea Hunter Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Where ever I may roam where I lay my head I call home. Posts: 2,320	Hot coffee Never tasted so good the morning after a sleepless night 🌙 __________________ Duke Mitchell

07-01-2025, 05:45 AM	#4
MITCHELL Sea Hunter Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Where ever I may roam where I lay my head I call home. Posts: 2,320	Posting this off my iPhone Couldn't be harder with pop up adds plus edit for misspelled words and getting picture download failure everytime If you want pictures you have to go to my history posts in BWE I lost all my pictures in my old phone. __________________ Duke Mitchell Last edited by MITCHELL; 07-01-2025 at 07:41 AM.

07-01-2025, 07:04 AM	#6
MITCHELL Sea Hunter Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Where ever I may roam where I lay my head I call home. Posts: 2,320	The reason I said my fish looked bigger was because.... I talked my middle brother into going at night 🌙 and he got a 52lb wsb on frozen squid and I was comparing photos. He was no rookie to kayak fishing 😕 __________________ Duke Mitchell

07-01-2025, 07:53 AM	#7
MITCHELL Sea Hunter Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Where ever I may roam where I lay my head I call home. Posts: 2,320	I have to say..... Loosing the opportunity to get limits of albacore on the butterfly 🦋 bank for la Jolla wsb and yts in a kayak was a pretty good trade 😎 __________________ Duke Mitchell