Snotty Monday

[Croaker Dave]

I had the whole sea to myself this morning, but for good reason. It was Monday and it was windy and rainy. I went out to the corner and the wind would blow me north away from the kelp pretty fast. So I zig-zagged all morning, to the kelp, blow north, and repeat. I started to zig-zag back home because there were some stiff gusts with some whitecaps and it was cold. But the water temp said 61 so I kept at it. Around 10am I saw the right signs on the sonar:

:wsb::wsb::wsb:
so I reeled in my drifting mack and sent it straight down. In 10 seconds the rod tip was vibrating, gave it some freespool for the drift, and hooked up. After I had been fighting the fish for about 20 minutes, Sharon paddled by and watched the rest of it and took the picture. She had to give me some tips on how to hold up the slippery beast, but I need to go out and practice on some more. Thanks, Sharon!

[punatunaHI]

Very nice fish!!!:you_rock: There still out there! CHEEE HEEE! stoked.

[steveooo]

Excellent :luxhello:
Way to tough it out! :wsb:

[jorluivil]

Awesome!

[Deamon]

yaks sitting kind of low with that toad on board...

[Iceman]

They don't call ya Croaker Dave fer nutin! :luxhello:....................nice

[GregAndrew]

Hardcore pays off in a big way. WTG.

[bellcon]

Congrats on a nice fish Dave
:cheers1::wsb:

Sounds exactly like my 12 hour Sunday at LJ....

except for the actually catching a WSB part:doh:

[Amish Ed]

A great reminder to go out even when it's snotty and cold out.

[BrokeLoser]

Nice fish....Assuming this was caught in LJ?

[GBF]

Way to go dave!!!

GBF

[THE DARKHORSE]

It looks windy, crappy and cold---yet perfect at the same time.

Perseverance through adversity, I like your style. :cheers1:

[deepdvr]

Great job out there!!! Nothing better than being just you and the ocean. Well, it is nice to have someone be able to take your OTW trophy pic. If that someone is Sharon, all the better. :cheers1:

[Iceman]

Dave, I kind of feel like you owe me a fillet for inspiring you :D

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</td> <td class="row1" valign="top" width="100%" height="28"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td width="100%">http://www.yakfishing.com/board/templates/yakSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif (http://www.yakfishing.com/board/viewtopic.php?p=3016#3016)Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 12:46 pm Post subject: Holy Mackeral!</td> <td valign="top" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">http://www.yakfishing.com/board/templates/yakSilver/images/lang_english/icon_quote.gif (http://www.yakfishing.com/board/posting.php?mode=quote&p=3016) </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">Nice job Andy! You guys had guts to go out in the crappy weather and you sure got rewarded for it.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>

[JoeBeck]

:cheers1: much more of an adventure when the seas aren't calm. Way to spot em!

[sharonkayak]

It was good to see someone hook up. after fighting those conditions all morning, definalty made it worth it!

[Caballito]

nice backdrop of Pelicans also

[roby]

You lucky dog...you got to fish with Sharon :luxhello:

[Croaker Dave]

Thanks everyone.

I used to have a rule that I told myself not to fish on snotty days because I never caught anything but a deep chill. But maybe I just have to learn how to fish those days.