The Few That Became The Many

[The Kid]

Man look at all the WSB reports lately! It’s crazy how many have been caught this year by us BWE members alone. So who really wants to read another one? Many people have searched for one for years and some have not accomplished catching the “rare” White Sea bass. Granted, the fish tastes pretty good and the fishing can be very laid back, but what makes this fish so highly desirable. Is it its table fare, it’s parallel to fresh water catfishing? What is it?

For most it’s a check of the bucket list, for me it puts a different taste in my mouth so to speak. All the long sunny days hunting my favorite game fish, the Yellowtail with the surface iron, can leave a permanent tan line on a man. I could never get tired of getting bit on the plug though! With the thought of sea bass fishing wafting in and out of brain what was to stop me. The biggest deterrent fishing these sluggish brutes is the cold late nights and early mornings, but epic bites come to the very lucky, the hard nosed and well informed.

Most have heard my rant about sea bass about how they are boring to catch and they barely put up a fight to save themselves. Well, I will now renounce what I have said in the past about these fish not being hard fighters. This year, for whatever reason, the sea bass are extremely pissed off. I have never had White Sea bass fight this hard ever in the past. Quite a few of these fish would have pulled yellows straight on their ass. I know I know The Kid talkin’ smack about yellows? Yes, I was terribly impressed by these fish.

Maybe it’s all the fish I released last year that have buffed up quite a bit to bring on the pain this year. Maybe it’s the huge amount of squid that has plagued or coastline for a year. Whatever it is I hope the genes get passed on to the next generation from these tanks. I will now use the terms tankers from now on instead of slugs to show a new found respect for these fish. Still a lazy eater, but they have become exceptional fighters.

Moving on. For those trying to get into the sea bass game drooling over fish porn you are seeing on BWE here are a few good rules you can either take or leave:
1. If you hear about a sea bass bite, you are already too late.
2. If you can keep be calm and keep secrets, you can consistently pull on fish.
3. Don’t overcook your sea bass and get some recipes from Yani.

Taking rule number one into account, here’s my report which is not recent. I’m gonna shorten up the story on this one a bit because all people are going to do is look at pictures. Caught a lot of fish, released a lot of fish, and kept some to eat. Like I said these fish pulled hard, really hard. I tried so hard to pull on every fish’s mouth this month, but was slightly unsuccessful. My only hope is that majority of the fish in La Jolla have become smarter as a result of my C&R. Worry not these fish kicked as hard as they could to get away from my hand. The belief that these fish die really easily is only true in a certain light in my opinion. If a person pulls on a WSB for several minutes granted the fish are going to be beat and if you release the fish belly up they cannot turn over. It’s similar to a turtle rolled on its shell. But if you pull on them as hard as I do when I’m hooked up, the fish have no problem at all. NOT ONE PROBLEM!!! Weakfish! LOL!

As a result of word spreading like wildfire, the few fishing sea bass became the many. Good luck to those chasing ghosts and old reports!

So here you go folks enjoy some porno. Only the donks got to be photographed. Thanks for reading.

T-REX


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