F'nAndy

[F'nArne]

Iceman had to make a delivery:

http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/1/8/7/1/andywsbut2.jpg

He can fill you in on the details later.

F'nArne

[madscientist]

Holy crappola.

[ski]

Nice! Not good at guessing weights, but I'll say 23 for the WSB and 28.5 for the sand dab! Might as well try for the slam this afternoon!!

[vellocity]

he looks GOOD 20 years older, catching trophies from a yak instead of a BOAT!! (see his BD post)

congrats Andy!
he's good!

[aguachico]

Hey Andy;
the chica standing behind you... You excite her so much she's got morning wood!
BTW: nice fish

19# wsb, 25# bycatch.

[lamb]

:lol:

[Iceman]

You guys are worse than me at guessing weights. The 2 fish weighed 79+pounds combined :shock: :D

Here is Arne displaying grace under pressure. You know when you are "gold" that this had a happy ending :D

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/arnegraceunderpressure.jpg

[madscientist]

Great shot of the porn star in action. Sounds like a wild morning.

[dmr]

Nice catch.

It looks like a few peoples first month WCW totals are going to be higher than many 12 month totals. Looking forward to the details.

[twinfin]

unreal :shock:

[Holy Mackerel]

Somehow I knew it would bust open monday through friday this week, with all the smelt in the water. Let me see, I am predicting, a drastic shut off of this bite, Saturday morning. :cry:

Nice fishes, hope I am wrong on my second prediction! :lol:

Chris

btw: that 2nd pic of Arne is awesome!

[lamb]

GREAT SHOT!!! What the hack is Arne gaffing, a whale?!? :shock:

So, the details will be disclosed at the exclusive 35 WCW 06 member protected forum, right? :lol:

Congrats you guys, Rock'nRoll.

[steveooo]

Holy s%@&!!!!
How did LJ just go from dead calm to WFO on multiple species????
Oh, yeah it was the pros out this a.m.
Chris I one up your prediction saying that the bite will shut off on friday, because thats when i will spend my $100 in gas to get down there :cry:

[kurt]

That's a great action shot. Those sand bass will go crazy when they're gaffed. :lol: More details, I beg of you!

[Iceman]

Pretty good tideswing this morning. Launched around the same time as Jim and crew, Vito, Aaron and Julie. Arne had already been out there for 5-6 hours :D coming across the 52 it was socked in with fog around the 5, but coming over the hump and it was nice and clear at La Jolla. Surf was short interval, with some obvious "time to go" windows. My meter that I thought I'd fixed, was not, so I started arond the usual spots. Only brought a fist full of iron and a swimbait. Yoyoed around and stopped to shoot the shit with Arne. We could not talk each other into a bite, so I paddled off a little. Arne yelled that he was on and I paddled back to watch the show and snap some pix. After his fish lay dying from what I would guess was multple stab wounds and severe trauma to the head and gills :D I paddled off and it was my turn to yell out :D I was yoyoing right off the bottom in 125 feet, 3 cranks up, fish on! This 6XJR scrambled egg has caught some fish this year. Fish ran a bit and I ticked the drag a little, it ran again and I squeezed a little more drag. When I hook a fish right on the bottom, I really like them to earn every inch and I was fishing 40#. After the second run the fish circled, rod tip in the water. Could not take drag, but towed me a ways, before it slowly came up. At color it spewed a fresh looking squid. Easy WSB floater/gaff. Short and VERY stocky at 34 pounds 7 oz. The rest of the story is Fn'Arne's :D

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/1_30wsb1.jpg

[steveooo]

79-34=45lb Flat one :D :D :D
DDDDAAAAAAAMMMMMMMNNNNNNN!!!!!!!

[madscientist]

I had a feeling one of those fish was Golden Boy's and the action shot had crazy 'but written all over it. Guess that means it was over 40! Nice job guys. So much for my hopes of leading wire to wire. Maybe I'll go look for the upgrade/mulligan tomorrow. 8)

Wish I had my F*%&in meter if the squirts are back. A friend said that San Clemente is just loaded with squid, maybe some are headed this way. I was thinking last night that it was starting to get a WSB kind of feel to it in the evenings.

[F'nArne]

There is a story behind me sneezing in that shot ... but all the pics are on someone else's camera.

[Iceman]

Arne, I sent you a KILLER PIC!!! NO?

[F'nArne]

Ahhhh ... I just sent you an email from my NEW old email address.

Did Jim send you the duo shot?

[tylerdurden]

F'n weekday guys make the rest of us feel bad for working. Great fish. Great action shot.

[F'nArne]

This one started out with the usual trip to the pier for greenies, big and small. A few cold ones to the face woke me up good, but it wasn't too chilly.

At first light I was at the point in about 110-120 feet and was metering fish everywhere. Sent a smallish greenie down with a 2/0 hook - I was NOT looking for Butts so no trap hook. Andy stopped by for a chat and paddled off for whiter waters. No more than 2 minutes after he left my bait goes wild. I let it run a few seconds before setting the hook. It swung me around and made a couple really nice quick runs, then that was it.

It didn't fight like anything I'd hooked in the past. My first thought was a baby BSB 'cuz it wasn't putting up much of a fight, but I was getting line back too quickly for that. Then I thought ... halibut?

Water was clear - probably 20 foot viz where I was - so I just kept grinding away and looking over the side. Pretty soon I saw a doormat coming up. But the normal flat float to the top was not happening. This one was straight up and down. How am I going to gaff it? I loosened the drag WAY DOWN (thanks again Fish Destroyer) and brought it just to the surface and stuck her with an awkward gaff.

The fish went ballistic, giving me a shower with Andy taking pics and laughing his a@# off. The gaff shot was only a nuisance to this fish. The gaff ripped out and all the way back down to the bottom she went. So I started the grind again with a veeeery loose drag and finally got her floating back up, but once again straight up and down. This time I stuck her in the noggin and stared down her huge mouth. I quickly threw my handy dandy stringer through her mouth and watched her go crazy once again - and hung on.

This baby was thick. She got my yak rockin' and rollin' when I pulled her on board, so I bled her quickly and waited for the thrashing. I started looking for the hook and found it stuck in her side, just below the gills ... FOUL. I barely had to pull to get it out - that's why she came up the way she did. After I got situated I turned around to see Andy on his nice white one. Thanks for the pics Andy.

45# 9 oz.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/Arnehalibut1copy.jpg

F'nArne

[Siebler]

Congrats guys. I may need to go hit it tommorow.

[Aaron&Julie]

Congrats Iceman, on finishing a fine slam for this month. Congrats to you too, Arne, that is a barndoor for sure. Wish our day was more fruitful. Julie did catch a fish that was bigger (80lbs or so) than those 2 put together, but since it was a protected species we had to let it go. Her first BSB and biggest fish ever, gave her quite a tow, and some more experience at working a big fish on the yak.
We made beautiful greenies at the pier, our first attempt at making bait there. Started somewhere near Dec's "spot". Eventually drifted south in front of the big condo around 8:30AM, where we saw many yakkers, probably you two were among them. We worked the irons and baits all day with a sand bass and released BSB for our efforts.
We noticed a lot of bait and large greenbacks feeding on them. In fact, the mackeral seemed spread out to the bottom. As you two so far had the only fish, we are curious whether you actually could tell there was something large below on your meters. Arne it seems hard to envision metering a halibut, unless he was suspended, which they have been known to do. Could you have been metering all that mackeral that was around? And Andy, was that WSB a blind strike? Could you see something suspended just above the bottom (3 cranks)?
We know there are many benefits to getting a fish finder, which will be our next fishing toy, but are looking for feedback as to what they did or didn't tell you for today's catch.

[Dennis]

OH YEAH! Good job, guys!
-D

[Ryan The Sealion]

nice feesh both u F'n guys!! :x :lol:

[scwafish]

Epic! Nice to see the weather is reasonable some where in the frickin state...its like Alaska up here right now!

[megustafish5]

shit that flatty is hhuuuuuuuge congrats

[katchfish]

Arne, that's one muy grande flatty!

Andy good job keeping Brad honest!

Great job with the camera!

Ken

[Iceman]

Julie, congratulations on the BSB! Aaron I was fishing blind as my meter was not working.......until I was in 10 feet of water stowing gear to land :lol: Arne was saying he was seeing alot of good marks. There was bait everywhere, so you would be looking for tight balled up stuff. When I saw you and Julie you were in a little deeper water than we were.

[steveooo]

Next time you are in alaska fishing for butts, have andy photoshop a pic of the hotel in the background so it looks more believeable :D :D :D

[DOGHOUSE26]

Nice fish fockers! Arne Focker looked like Scott Peterson on his last fishing trip!

[Grego]

You guys got some amazing fish and stories...f'n great!! :P

[Jim Sammons LJKF]

Here are a couple of the shots I took, we started to turn into the sun so the shots of you guys together were very dark. We picked away at Sand bass but that was it for us. Funny some of the posts saying it went WFO, I wish, it was actually very slow out there. The squid from Andy's WSB is a good sign though.
http://forum.kayak4fish.com/modules/gallery/albums/album01/IMGP0330_resize.sized.jpg
http://forum.kayak4fish.com/modules/gallery/albums/album01/IMGP0327_resize.sized.jpg
http://forum.kayak4fish.com/modules/gallery/albums/album01/IMGP0328_resize.sized.jpg

[Aaron&Julie]

Thanks, Andy, for the information and kudos :) .

[Jay]

Iceman,

WOW, BOY have I been waiting for another BIGWATERSEDGE POST! You guys are like super hero's to us fisherman! NICE FREAKIN CATCH! I sure I get the chance to meet up with any of you fellas one of these days!

Keep up the good fishing!

JAY

[Johnp]

Those stogies must be a fish attractant. Which means i must smoking the wrong kind. Although i was the recent recipient of three A. Fuente Opus X 05's. Will that bring on a bite?

[katchfish]

Word on the water is that Holy Mackerel has some special gorilla fingers that might turn on the................bite! :roll:

Ken

[Afran]

Yo Icy,
That Scrambled Egg must be a great swimmer. Did you pick that up NEW or has it been in your line up for a while?

inspirrrrrrrrred

[Iceman]

Afran, I think any color Salas 6XJR will work, they just have great vertical action. I had lost so many irons to lobster lines, that one is the last 6xjr I have :D. I need to get to Squidco. For backup I have some Ironman #3s and #5s and UFOs.

[Afran]

Noted.
I have a few, but not sure how I feel about them. I'm re-loading soon.

[Iceman]

Here is the real beachshot :D

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/wsbbut.jpg

[lamb]

Andy, any pics of Monday catch??







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