Late report for Monday

[amsurferoceanbeach]

http://www.bigwatersedge.com/bwegallery/data/2/PaulMcDonald12-11-07-11.jpg

My son and daughter in law are in town from
Japan with my new grandson. I told them before
they left we would have yellow tail sashimi.
Got up early but it was 37 degrees in my yard
, so I went back to bed.
Afternoon had a little wind on it, but was still nice.
Easy bait at the can. I decided to just head straight
out when I see birds diving way out side. I flew out
as fast as I could stopping just short of the boil. Thats when I noticed
my bail was open and 500 yards of line was out with
my surface iron on it.
As I was cranking the line in ,my fly line goes off.
I started to set the reel with the iron on it down
when the fly line goes still. I went ahead and pulled
the rest of the line in and got one shot at the boil
that came right at me. Hook up. I new it was'nt that
big, but I did have 40 lb line on and I was in 150 ft depth,
so I horsed it in. Before I got it in, the boils quit, the birds
left and for an hour I never saw anything, so I came in.
16 lbs on the b/w surface iron.
http://www.bigwatersedge.com/bwegallery/data/500/PaulMcDonald12-11-07-1.jpg

Thanks Don for making my fish look so big.
Date on the photo is wrong. 12 10 2007

[FISHIONADO]

Way to go Paul, haven't seen you out there in a while. Let us know what your kids think of our local yellowtail. I understand that Japanese yellowtail are a little different and make true hamachi, usually farm fattened, and our local yellowtail sashimi is called hiramasa. I've never been able to cut the "melt in your mouth" sashimi from ours, good but not like you get from sushi restaurants. But my kids like anything with wasabi, even green beans.

[steamroll]

Right on! Who knew the winter bite would be on Surface Irons? :eek:

:luxhello::cheers1::yt:

[Holy Mackerel]

Paul, nice Tail! :yt:

chris

[lamb]

Right on Paul!!!! :cheers1:

[Dan]

Me <---jealous. You <-----stoked.

Nice winter fish. Sounds like an exciting hookup for sure.

[amsurferoceanbeach]

Dave my son said he orders wasabi hamburgers in Japan.
What a gringo.

[esdees]

Congrats! These cold mornings make it tough.

[Matt]

The new technique for winter!!! Congrats Paul!!!!

[Handymansd]

Congrats on a great winter catch!! :luxhello:I have been too wimpy to brave these freezing mornings too. I need to come up with a nice gel seat heater.:o

[Shirack!]

I just got back from Japan about 2 weeks ago, we caught about 15 yelowtail in Tokyo bay and about 30 in Shimoda, they were smaller than here but they tasted just the same.

[Zed]

Nice.

Brrrr.

[ratdog]

Very nice, "thank you" for sharing the details.

[joe tuipala]

I will call you , but have not got a Kayak yet.:yt: :yt: :yt: :yt: :yt: :yt: :yt: :yt: :yt: :yt: :yt: :yt: :yt: :yt: :yt: :yt: :yt: :yt: :yt: :yt: :yt:

[GBF]

NICE GOING!!

GBF

[Aaron&Julie]

Congratulations and thanks for the report.
Living vicariously through fisher "folks" like you.

[aguachico]

Congrats on the fish.

[Tman]

Thanks Don for making my fish look so big.


I think any YT you catch in the middle of winter is a big fish...congrats, nice :yt:

[Earl E. Retire]

I've found that ceramic knives (mine's from Kyocera) are great for slicing the YT really thin ;). Ceramic stays very sharp for a long time. The knives are brittle though -- can't drop or bang them against things or they will chip.

EER

[h2ofishfo]

WTG

[ski]

Sweet :yt:

[T-Rex]

Nice :yt:

[TomTurtle]

:you_rock:

[LITTLE_NEMO]

Nice story and nice:yt:

[frugalfisher]

Surface Iron to boot!

[dorado50]

nice fish, LJ has been good to you, I gotta go all the way to lower Baja for one!

[Grego]

Nice feesh...looks cold out there.