Fished The Upswing - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

jorluivil · 11-29-2011, 02:43 AM

Decided to get away and do some solo fishing before work, arrived at the launch around 0545 to an empty parking lot. I setup my yak at home and tossed it in the bed so when I arrived all I needed to do was offload, change and launch, launched to an awesome sunrise. Got to the bait barge shortly after 0600, picked up a super nice scoop of squid and off I went.

First drop gets hit and up comes a lizard fish, second drop gets hit and up comes a sole, third drop goes down and you’ll never guess what it was? I almost decided to just peddle my butt off and head to another spot because I didn’t want to deal with another lizard fish. ehhhh, WTH! I’ll drop again and see what happens. Bait goes down, bait hits bottom, bait get hit and as soon as it was hooked I knew it was a keeper, came in at 31.5”.

I decided to drop another bait while I put the fish away and about 2minutes later……BAMM!! Again, based on the pull I was sure it was another keeper, I decided to get some use out of my new Promar net and saved the fish from feeling the wrath of my gaff. Brought it onboard, this one came in just shy of 26”, decided to release it and move on. Its wasn’t even 0730 yet and I already had to legals, THIS IS GOING TO BE A GOOD DAY.

Moved on to another spot and fished a shelf, as soon as the shelf leveled out WHAMMO! I’m on and this is another keeper, fought it for two to three pulls and it comes off. Went from sonar to gps and followed my tracks again, I get to close to the same area and WHAMMO! DAMMIT!!!! Lost it, AGAIN! Went around for round three and nothing, moved around for a bit and got two other great hits but I couldn’t get them to stick. Ended up landing another two shorts in this area, it’s amazing how much fight the little ones have. When I bring them up I’m like, “You’re the one putting up this huge fight? Really? You’re like 12inches long”

It was right around 1030 and it was high tide so there was very little movement. I was fighting a headache most of the morning, I didn’t bring my lunch badge so I had no aspirin on me. My headache was getting so bad that I was starting to get nauseous. At this point I decided to start peddling in and fish the outgoing tide. On the way in I get a few more hits, two short hali’s, two lizards and another legal hali, this one came in just short of 26”. At this point my headache was getting pretty bad so I decided to call it a day, got my lines up and was home by 1400. Took some ibuprofen, sat in a chair in my garage and took a quick nap.

The weather was great, very little wind most of the day, had a buddy keeping me entertained, sun was moving in and out of the clouds and I brought some dinner home….what more could you ask for?

Adam12 · 11-29-2011, 04:59 AM

Thats awesome Jorge, congrats!

lbsurf2ca · 11-29-2011, 05:56 AM

Nice ones Jeorge. Looks like you found your butt hole.

Darkstar · 11-29-2011, 06:55 AM

Nice one!

tasteslikechikn54 · 11-29-2011, 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by lbsurf2ca

Nice ones Jeorge. Looks like you found your butt hole.

Ha ha ha!!! Was this in san Diego? Just getting into kayak fishing.... Thanks.

mtnbykr2 · 11-29-2011, 07:30 AM

nice way to start a day of work....come on Jorge....share

congrats on the freezer stocking

wiseguy · 11-29-2011, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by tasteslikechikn54

Ha ha ha!!! Was this in san Diego? Just getting into kayak fishing.... Thanks.

look at the first picture. Not san diego.

blitzburgh · 11-29-2011, 08:21 AM

Nice one!

tasteslikechikn54 · 11-29-2011, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by wiseguy

look at the first picture. Not san diego.

I guess there's a reason behind your screen name... Like I said, I'm just getting into kayak fishing. I have no idea where that picture was taken... Thanks for coming out, bud.

yakrider · 12-03-2011, 07:16 AM

nice fish, George!

11-29-2011, 02:43 AM	#1
jorluivil Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 6,856	Fished The Upswing Decided to get away and do some solo fishing before work, arrived at the launch around 0545 to an empty parking lot. I setup my yak at home and tossed it in the bed so when I arrived all I needed to do was offload, change and launch, launched to an awesome sunrise. Got to the bait barge shortly after 0600, picked up a super nice scoop of squid and off I went. First drop gets hit and up comes a lizard fish, second drop gets hit and up comes a sole, third drop goes down and you’ll never guess what it was? I almost decided to just peddle my butt off and head to another spot because I didn’t want to deal with another lizard fish. ehhhh, WTH! I’ll drop again and see what happens. Bait goes down, bait hits bottom, bait get hit and as soon as it was hooked I knew it was a keeper, came in at 31.5”. I decided to drop another bait while I put the fish away and about 2minutes later……BAMM!! Again, based on the pull I was sure it was another keeper, I decided to get some use out of my new Promar net and saved the fish from feeling the wrath of my gaff. Brought it onboard, this one came in just shy of 26”, decided to release it and move on. Its wasn’t even 0730 yet and I already had to legals, THIS IS GOING TO BE A GOOD DAY. Moved on to another spot and fished a shelf, as soon as the shelf leveled out WHAMMO! I’m on and this is another keeper, fought it for two to three pulls and it comes off. Went from sonar to gps and followed my tracks again, I get to close to the same area and WHAMMO! DAMMIT!!!! Lost it, AGAIN! Went around for round three and nothing, moved around for a bit and got two other great hits but I couldn’t get them to stick. Ended up landing another two shorts in this area, it’s amazing how much fight the little ones have. When I bring them up I’m like, “You’re the one putting up this huge fight? Really? You’re like 12inches long” It was right around 1030 and it was high tide so there was very little movement. I was fighting a headache most of the morning, I didn’t bring my lunch badge so I had no aspirin on me. My headache was getting so bad that I was starting to get nauseous. At this point I decided to start peddling in and fish the outgoing tide. On the way in I get a few more hits, two short hali’s, two lizards and another legal hali, this one came in just short of 26”. At this point my headache was getting pretty bad so I decided to call it a day, got my lines up and was home by 1400. Took some ibuprofen, sat in a chair in my garage and took a quick nap. The weather was great, very little wind most of the day, had a buddy keeping me entertained, sun was moving in and out of the clouds and I brought some dinner home….what more could you ask for? __________________ www.facebook.com/Teamsewer Last edited by jorluivil; 12-02-2011 at 01:25 AM.

11-29-2011, 08:21 AM	#8
blitzburgh Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Menifee Posts: 2,509	Nice one! __________________ ”The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” ~Thomas Jefferson.........maybe

11-29-2011, 04:59 AM	#2
Adam12 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Whittier Posts: 126	Thats awesome Jorge, congrats!

11-29-2011, 05:56 AM	#3
lbsurf2ca Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Encinitas Posts: 395	Nice ones Jeorge. Looks like you found your butt hole.

11-29-2011, 06:55 AM	#4
Darkstar Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: SDSU area Posts: 131	Nice one!

11-29-2011, 07:30 AM	#6
mtnbykr2 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: newbury park ca Posts: 2,323	nice way to start a day of work....come on Jorge....share congrats on the freezer stocking

12-03-2011, 07:16 AM	#10
yakrider Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 611	nice fish, George!