Earned myself a lollipop!
 

Launched yesterday at 0530 with JOctane. Made about 10 pieces of bait (4GBM and about 6 Spanish), then headed out a bit. Time was about 0730. We were in pretty shallow, maybe 70-75, straight West of the condo. Nothing too scientific.
Dropper loop GBM one crank up, and really slow trolling. Reel started to sing my favorite song, and in a few minutes, up came 25# of yellowtail goodness.
I haven't been on the water in over 6 months, so this was a nice welcoming back.
About 1000 hooked into a beautiful blue shark. Maybe 6-7 feet and 75-100 lbs.
Amazed that my 40# flouro went unbitten. During the fun, my finger did not go unbitten. Mr(s?) shark took a little taste of my finger. Slight fleshwound, and a lightly black/blue knuckle. Anyways...earned myself a lollipop!
Photo credit to JOctane.

So your finger is now a lollipop?


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Nope. Lollipop was for catching a fish. Even shared it with the fish. Look at that smile of him enjoying that lollipop. Mmm Mmm Mmm.
Finger is good.

Atta boy Rob!! :cheers1:

well done Rob:cheers1:

lolly pop is better than lolly gagging. good work!

Lucky you. Not for catching a yelliw, lots of people do that. keeping your finger after being close enough to get scratched by a shark tooth, LUCKY! !!

Robbie! Great job brotha. Miss those on the water lollipop (and cerveza, lol) hand outs. :cheers1:Jim

Nice tail!

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Turn your wounds to wisdom...

Good meeting you when you landed.. Good grade of fish... But you need a few more stickers [emoji4]

Thanks for the props on the fish gents.
Nice to meet you too Momo.
As far as the stickers go, I put a couple important stickers on starting at the back right...WWP, BWE, Seeker, Avet, Kelp, Charkbait, etc. Folks I like and support.
Then I started at the back left with all the breweries that I've been to, and well before I knew it, I had wrapped all the way around the front and back around the right hand side, almost all the way to the back. I actually still have brewery stickers to put on, but no more room.
Anyways, let's go fishing.

Congrats on the nice yt.

I haven't heard of a blue shark in LJ in a long long time. They are a pelagic shark n hooking one that shallow n on the bottom would be extremely unusual. Weird things have been happening lately tho. I mean no disrespect but I'm a fish nerd and very interested if it was a blue. Any chance it might have been a soup fin? Lots have caught lately. Thanks. Mike.

Nice!

Hey Mike,
Maybe it was a soupfin. I had to Google what its mouth and teeth dimensions looked like, as I have that image permanently burned into my mind. Just the arrangement of the teeth, proximity to its eyes, and the rough shape of the snout...so let's just call it a soup fin.
I appreciate your brains amigo.

Rob

dope! haven't seen you on the yak for a while. :cheers1:

Sticker overload !!!

Great fish man!

It's a good thing you didn't report to the local news that you were bit by a shark. You'd have made the 5pm Headlines:

*** SHARK ATTACK at La Jolla Shores **** Kayaker narrowly escaped certain death....Run for your Lives!!!!!!!!!!!

BTW, you should be a Kayak Salesman, you have a Great Smile!! :D I'd buy a Yak from ya!!!!

Keep stickin' it to the feesh Man!!! :yt: