6/6 LJ Sea Monster?

[CurtyL]

OK DSsafety mentioned this guy in his post earlier but I am dying to know what this guy had on is line saturday. I paddled out around 8AM and passed this guy on a white Cobra with a fly rod on back. He had his spinner down in the water and was just kind of sitting there. I didn't even know he was hooked up. So I get out on the corner and fish around for a while -talk to this nice guy Mark who gives me a Mac and tell's me there's a guy inside who's been fighting a fish since 7AM in a white yak. Now this is about 1PM or so - I didn't connect the two. So I'm one of the last guys off the water and as I'm coming in at around 3PM there's this lone guy in the white yak and he's getting towed out to sea again!!! Plus, he only has half a pole. He's hooked up to a submaine or something and he's got half a pole. Last I saw him he was headed out to the corner. That's an eight hour plus fight there. I'm thinking it's an adult thresher maybe? What the hell fights for eight hours? Dude, if you're on these boards please post the outcome.

[Matt]

Nessie? Bllinky?

[habanero]

bull kelp adrift

[kareem korn]

BSB?

[Holy Mackerel]

Originally Posted by habanero

bull kelp adrift

I was thinking the same thing, I saw that guy, he wasn't moving, and he had a Jigmaster on an upside down spinning rod, that was broken... crazyboy180 style... But, I could be wrong, he probably caught more than I did on Saturday...

[Dean Machine]

Afghani spy submarine?

[Iceman]

If I am on a fish for more than 30 minutes.........it is nothing I want. Button down, thumb the spool.........break it off! T shark, BSB mud marlin.

[Sherm]

Chupacabra!!!!! I hear they are big this year.

[dorado50]

Thats some really funny stuff right there! Fighting a fish on a spinning rod for eight hours,come on now!. An imaginary fish can happen to some.....

[lapulapu]

Kelp.

[Tman]

[dxrat]

Batray,even sharks give up after that much time.
Maybe he had spectra all the way to the hook and he couldn't break it off. It is a funny picture though, Jigmaster on a broken upside down spinning rod

[CurtyL]

If kelp swims then maybe. He said he thought he had it about 30 feet or so - so I waited around for a few minutes to see what it was. That's when he took off for open water pretty fast. He wasn't paddling either. Even a BSB doesn't take more than an hour or so. It was truly wack.

[FISHIONADO]

[Sherm]

What time did he start heading out. The tide turned around noon that day.

[dorf]

He lost all of his gear but would not give up the fight.

[Billy V]

-The infamous Laguna Beach SHEEPSCRAB ..?

That guy is going to have one hell of a back ache today.
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You are supposed to Get Pics of sights like that......for our entertainment.

[CurtyL]

It was 3PM or so. COuld it have been a max fow out? Maybe, but I never saw the tide push a yak in a perfectly westerly direction ....excep maybe Mission Bay channel. Then again there was a strong wind blowing inshore.... maybe the two combined to make him look like he was moving faster away from me than he really was. But he was going in a circle when I first came up on him...what about that? You got to be pretty dense to battle kelp for 8 ours. Hey I'm just reporting on what I saw....cause in 5-6
bb years on the canyons I've never seen anying like it.

[dorado50]

Someones imagination has gone wild.... the guy must of had wire leader,300# mono on the spinning rod to have had that fish on for 8 hrs. Its like the"old man and the sea" story. Ride that bull kelp to Hawaii.

[kurt]

A full sabiki of mature black sea bass.