A Day of Firsts

[jhook]

Great day on Mission Bay today!

My first spottie.

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The spotties were hungry today

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My first halibut

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My first time using this net (also the last...)

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After safely releasing the cuda, I had to cut my hook out of the net. I don't reccommend the Promar folding net. The engineers at Promar put a lot of research into designing a mesh that you will never get a hook out of. I thought about paddling up to OEX and seeing if I could return it. :biggrinjester:

My first broken lure.

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I hooked into a big spottie. As I brought him to the surface, little bait fish started exploding out of the water right next to my yak. When I got him up I saw that he had swallowed my Rapala. Just the lip was sticking out of his gaping maw. I grabbed the lip of the lure and the fish went nuts. The lure cracks in half and the fish falls back into the water. I'm left holding the plastic lip. Right after snapping this picture, my drop-shot rod goes bendo and I pull up...

My first lizard fish

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After losing my killer lure, the fishing dropped off. I only caught two more spotties.
It was a beautiful day to be out there. Check out the snow on those mountains!

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The score for the day was:
10 spotties
2 barracuda
1 halibut
1 lizard fish
1 lost lure
1 ruined net

[Iceman]

Nice action! slug Lizard :D

Crank baits and nets never go well together. Promar makes a great folding net and they make a great rubber mesh net that is easy on the hooks, they just don't make a folding net with rubber mesh. :D

[old_rookie]

Great report. Cool pics. And a halibut using a floater!!??

[yaknewb]

Thats sweet it took me weeks for my first hali on my yak congrats. I always thought those rapalas would be a lot stronger for the money you pay for them , the cudas always broke mine after 20 or so fish so i stoped useing them and started useing castmasters.

[eekamouse463]

Were you casting and retrieving?

[jhook]

Nice action! slug Lizard :D

He measured 16 inches. Does that break any records? ;)

Crank baits and nets never go well together. Promar makes a great folding net and they make a great rubber mesh net that is easy on the hooks, they just don't make a folding net with rubber mesh. :D

I knew it was a bad idea as soon as I did it, but the fish was hooked pretty good and I knew i had to bring it on board. I guess I should of picked up a fish grip.

[jhook]

Great report. Cool pics. And a halibut using a floater!!??

It dives to 12 feet. It probably had its nose digging in the sand when I hooked that butt.

[jhook]

Thats sweet it took me weeks for my first hali on my yak congrats. I always thought those rapalas would be a lot stronger for the money you pay for them , the cudas always broke mine after 20 or so fish so i stoped useing them and started useing castmasters.

:cheers1: I was pretty surprised to see that flatty come up. I really want to get into a larger model. :reel: That's a good tip on the kastmasters. I hadn't thought to use those in the salt.

[jhook]

Were you casting and retrieving?

I did some of that, but I caught almost all of my fish today on the troll.

[Hunter (The 80's Man)]

Nice fish!!!! variety :) :) :)

[StinkyMatt]

Kick ass day. You sound very stoked! I am itchin to fish, cant wait til the weekend.

[wiredantz]

Dude i have the exact same lure, and my fishing never turned out like that. I am going to be using that in Shelter island next Sunday!!

[tomah]

man looks like you had a lot of fun!

[mtnbykr2]

look at all the fishees on the crank bait! I would kill for great crank bait day like that...nice job, thanks for the report:reel:

[roadx]

wow looked like a nice day on the water, nice score on the fish, everyone will be breaking out the rapala's now ;)

[bigbarrels]

Nice report, thanks for sharing!:)

[lamb]

Nice! :cheers1:

[Amish Ed]

great report, thanks.

[fknricter]

nice dude!! looks like you already have a game plan for next time too!

[dfroggy54]

awesome report! thanks for the pics

[jhook]

nice dude!! looks like you already have a game plan for next time too!

Yeah. Step one is buying another one of those lures. :D

[taggermike]

Like Andy said, cranks and nets are not a good combo. I don't use crank baits too often but when I do I usually remove the front treble hook. It's easier on the fish and easier on you if you're C&R-ing. It's safer as well; having a pissed fish thrashing around in your lap with multiple trebles in it's face is not fun. Those fresh water cranks don't hold up too well in the ocean. The hooks rust off and as you found the lures break apart. They cost more but the cranks designed for the ocean have better hooks and the hooks are conected through the body of the baits with wire. Mike

[JoeGoFish]

You were a busy boy! Thanks for the glimpse of hope for us crankbaiters...

[BigBalsa]

Wow! You sure scored a bunch of newbies. I remember EVERY SINGLE ONE of my first catches, although they did'nt always come in bunches like that.

Congrats on the fishing, the catching - and mostly thanks for the sharing.

[Mobsan]

Sounds you you had a great day out there. Strong work from one newbie to another.
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[JrBasser]

Looks like a blast! Nothing better than spotties on the crankbait. They hit like freight trains when they really get goin.
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