Newbie here, and first time at La Jolla
 

Hey everyone, I'm Ryan, I've been lurking the site for a little more than a month, just about as long as I've had my kayak. I haven't really had many chances to take it out, but I knew that i had to head out to La Jolla soon. So when I saw I post from mckenzie (Brian) saying that he was heading out on Friday, knew i had to jump on that opportunity. I hoped out of my warm and cozy bed at 330, tossed all my stuff in the back of my truck, and made the long drive from West Covina to La Jolla, and got there just before 6 to meet up with Brian and Ryan. After a little pep talk on how to launch from the surf we got into the water. After catching bait, we began trolling, and after getting hung out on a couple of lobster pots, I finally hooked up onto a fish. When it first hit, I got excited, but then Brian yells "Stop paddling, it might be a thresher!" so i did exactly as he said, then BAM!! my reel starts screaming, I take it off of free spool set the hook and :reeling:the fight was on!! The fight felt like an eternity, but it was probably more like 45 minutes. The fish took me out on 1/2 mile sleigh ride, and the whole time Brian and Ryan were following me coaching me through it. When it finally tired out Brian and Ryan landed this sucker and Ryan was kind enough to take the shark on his yak. After an hour and a half we finally made it back to dry land, and Brian snapped a couple of shots of me and the fish :)

http://i977.photobucket.com/albums/a...1-27-11002.jpg

After landing, we headed to Ryan's house hoped on a scale and then hoped on the scale with the shark and it came out to a nice 65lbs :) We split this sucker 3 ways, and i took the long drive back to West Covina :) Anyways I definitely want to thank both Brian and Ryan :you_rock:for taking me out there with them, sharing their wisdom, chopping up the fish and coaching me though the day.

Till next time, thanks for reading!!
Ryan :)

Nice T-shark, 65lbs is a nice size to land from the yak. Good job :cheers1:

most guys would call that one 100 :D Whole lot o tasty steaks right there. Congrats!

nice. you must be a small guy, that thresher looks pretty big.

Nice catch!

Yeah i would have skipped the scale and called it a clean hundo, probably more before i bled her, very sweet

Thanks, it was a lot of fun :)

haha it felt like 100 when i took that picture, and I've never eaten thresher until today, but it hit the grill and came out AMAZING!!:D

Yea, I'm not the biggest dude out there, 5'6 about 145, and I was on a mini-x :D

Thanks!!

Haha looking back on it, i shudda said it was a hundo haha

Welcome to the board :cheers1:
Congrats on the T. That pic is Rad!

Nice Thresher, and congrats on landing a nice size fish on your first time out! How was the condition? The forecast says winds up to 20mph.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

What a rad first time.

Some people may shit talk the size of sharks, but that is a mighty fine first catch man.........

The arms will be sore tomorrow, good job on feeding the family :cheers1:

no shit talkin. but if that was me in the pic with a shark to that scale it would be a 120lber. lol. but ya. very nice. they were here in oside a few weeks ago and i was wondering where they went.

Thanks, mckenzie (Brian) took an awesome shot and set me up that way haha

Thanks, Conditions while we were out there were nice, not too rough, i didnt think it was too windy although i didnt know how fast they were blowing, definitely not 20mph tho..

Thanks, it was definitely a good first catch, and yes, definitely worth the sore arms, and body haha

LOL looking at the picture again, i coulda easily said it was 120 haha Thanks!!

man awesome. I've got to get out there with some of these stand up gentlemen

Sweeeet dude, my bro caught a 75lbs+ yesterday at LJ too, and it took the three of us to bring it in... fun stuff! We'll put up pix and vids soon...

cheers to the beautiful fish.:cheers1:

Awesome fish dude! I sure hope I run across a couple of those this year. Incredible eats.

AHHH I was supposed to be out there with you guys =( got super sick... Next time! Awesome Fish!

:you_rock:

haha yea they're a pretty cool fellas

Thanks!!

I hope you do too, They're definitely good eats :)

O man that woulda been fun having you out there, the more the merrier haha
Thanks!!

tail or mouth? :jig:

Very nice. Congrats.