Late Dana Pt. Report 1/14

[GregAndrew]

Went down to Dana on 1/14 after seeing a few fish being caught. Made an nice variety of Greenbacks early, but they were all over the area I ended up fishing anyway. Lots of action, but most of it was on Soupfin sharks that were tearing up my leaders. Just about gave up after I lost the 3rd leader, but decided to tie one more on since my buddy already had a nice fish. Glad I did, cause it earned me a 46" 37#er.

[Orca Winfrey]

Nice! Congrats.

[Dee84cali]

Nice!!


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[Steve Max]

That second picture is worthy of being framed. Sweet catch!!

[Vikingj]

Monster halibut! way to go, Greg. That's the biggest one caught by a kayaker that I have heard of at Dana Pt. My PR is 42" and I've been hunting them once a week for over 10yrs at Dana Point. I will be going out on Thurs to look for her twin sister. Thanks for report and pics. Congrats!
Wayne

[YakHanded]

biggggggun! hell ya

[FullFlavorPike]

Yowza!

[bwana]

Originally Posted by Vikingj

That's the biggest one caught by a kayaker that I have heard of at Dana Pt.

Nice fish Greg. A lot of guys will be following you this weekend.

Wayne, I have to hand Julie (Aaron&Julie on this website) that honor as she caught the women's 16lb. line class record back in '06 at 46.1 pounds off Doheny.

She backed that catch up with another 40 pounder the same day.

[Vikingj]

Originally Posted by bwana

Nice fish Greg. A lot of guys will be following you this weekend.

Wayne, I have to hand Julie (Aaron&Julie on this website) that honor as she caught the women's 16lb. line class record back in '06 at 46.1 pounds off Doheny.

She backed that catch up with another 40 pounder the same day.

I stand corrected. I had seen this report of catch that occurred a few years before I started k fishing. I thought it was 46" instead of 46 pounds but didn't remember. Julie is definitely da wo-MAN!

[Aaron&Julie]

Originally Posted by bwana

Nice fish Greg. A lot of guys will be following you this weekend.

Wayne, I have to hand Julie (Aaron&Julie on this website) that honor as she caught the women's 16lb. line class record back in '06 at 46.1 pounds off Doheny.

She backed that catch up with another 40 pounder the same day.

Greg, that's is one sweet 'but, congrats!

Yeah, Bwana, she caught 2 barndoors within an hour, a short day for us. Her 2nd fish was actually 34lbs, and we weighed her record breaker on a certified butcher shop scale in Dana Point after loading the truck, it weighed 47.5lbs. After Jim Sammons let us know she might have a record breaker, we took it to Dana Landing in Mission Bay 2 days after she caught it, so it lost some weight. My success that grand morning was a 24 incher, I didn't even put it on the clip. I nailed that fish right when she hooked her record breaker, but let it go quickly after seeing the bend in her rod, to assist her and have the pleasure of gaffing that monster.

Her record still stands, and it's actually still the biggest IGFA CA halibut recorded by any women on ANY class line. Thanks for the repost of her pic

BTW, she missed breaking her record off of La Jolla with an even larger one that fall off of La Jolla, I did not hit the "sweet spot" on that gaff goof.