Well done Avery!

Beauty.

What a beast that fish is. :eek: There goes all your freezer space! Not only is that fish huge but take a look at that FF screen. HOLY CRAP!

:cheers1:

That's no fishfinder... It's a dvd player. Nice fish, Avery. I didn't believe you at first when you told me, because you're always messing around. That thing is fricken huge. Good thing I wasn't there when you caught that thing... I would have pushed you into the water and taken her.. ;)

Fatty! Great to see one of the old guard getting it done.

Nice Cow - Way to put in the overtime.:wsb:

Tanker! I wonder, if you're peddling forward to keep the fish from taking too much line, are you also reducing the amount of effort the fish is using to pull the kayak, prolonging the fight? Great fish, Avery!

Way to go Avery, by the way, if you hear from Tobey ask him to call me. 760.807.0623
rich

That one huge wild hog!!! I think I met you last year on the same bite, told me about yellow tail nuggets and I spotted you my smaller yt?????

Glad I Could Be of Service
 

That is a nice fish, but some times it pays to sleep in!.

Damn, Rod. That yellow is huge.. What did that thing weigh? It looks like the toads came out in the afternoon... No slam?

53.2 lb for the yt
 

Got those a few weeks back but I don't think I'd shared them with Avery. I did catch it later in the morning though. Heard you did ok at night.

53.2lb... TOAD! Avery and I headed out Thursday night.. Two bites, but nothing landed. The old man (Avery) goofed his shot..;). I have yet to break 50. Nice work on that thing, Rod.

"Goofed shot"
 

Oh young grasshopper ...

What to others may have appeard as a goofed gaff shot, was actually an orchestrated movement I learned directly from the world's most famous kayak angler. Indeed, as an orphaned lad of 2, I was adopted by a rogue band of Aleutions, raised on penguin beaks and blubber, and tutored in the angling arts by none other than Nanuk himself. While the story's long, I'll make it short and say I was the first relatively-white man to be initiated into an exclusive group of "fish whisperers". To the point, whether I wanted to or not, I spent hours, days and yes, years, working to perfect what is known in an Aleutian dialect as the wottaphuqup maneuver.

When performed by a master, wottaphuqup enables a fish to swim away unharmed, but upon fine inspection, shows that a needle-sharp gaff was swung in such a way as to pierce and separate "the line of death" in its exact middle. That said, I must admit that, like the fictional Zorro, I too choose to mark my quarry, however rather than leave my encountered with a minor flesh wound, purposely swing high so that there's a bit of "bling" to remind them of our chance meeting.

Young friend, I rejoice much in your catching of small fish. But know this. I will, from this time forward, rejoice even more when you too come to perform wottaphuqup like me.

Avery

Holy YT......:cheers1:

Now Avery, that there's over the top, well done. I might even be able to turn that tale into a folk tune

Nice WSB!
 

LOOKS LIKE SOME GREAT DINNER!

i caLL bs that pic looks like it was taken in the early 90's :D

Just the camera was from then
 

One of the old Sony waterproofs. Got to be old school. Moyer has some better picks of the yt.