<TABLE id=HB_Mail_Container height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0 UNSELECTABLE="on"><TBODY><TR height="100%" UNSELECTABLE="on" width="100%"><TD id=HB_Focus_Element vAlign=top width="100%" background="" height=250 UNSELECTABLE="off">It started with one phone call on Monday, President’s Day. Greenjeans just got back from LJ and claimed he saw lots of Yellows being caught.

Although none came his way. He suggested

I might give it a try.

As a back up, I emailed Adi with lots of questions.

Adi’s reply: “We have Yellows year-round

at La Jolla.” What did I expect from Adi?

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Hell’s bells, I decided to give it a try on

Tuesday. The super high tide prevented a

beach launch. And a couple of foot-pumping

dingy-inflatable fisherman with a small trolling

motor made for entertainment while attempting

a surf launch. I laughed my ass off, until I saw

them bring a huge WSB. Then I cried my ass off.

http://www.kayakfishingmafia.com/gal...squid_bait.jpg

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Much to everyone’s surprise, a WSB bite broke

wide open around 8am and lasted an hour. If

you had live squid, you were in there, otherwise

you just got in the way.

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I was given a couple of squid by Owen, then

quickly proceeded to farm my only hook-up

of the day. I must have seen at least 10 WSB

that day that were over 40lbs.

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Tuesday nite, I get a phone call from San Deigo.

It’s my old friend Adi. He wants to know what’s

really going on at LJ. Hey Adi, there’s WSB

at LJ all year round.

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On Wednesday, I met Greenjeans and both of

us were hoping I wasn’t having a LSD flashback

on Tuesday. And, that there really was a WSB

bite going on. As far as the live squids go,

I brought a 6-pac of Heinekens for some horse-

trading in case I couldn’t find any squids.

Lucky for me Greensjeans found a boater

who was giving squids away. So we were

loaded and ready to go. On Wednesday, the

bite started at 9am, and lasted an hour.

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First Greenjeans got hooked up with a 55lb WSB,

then Dave Easton with his two. I start paddling over to their spot

and notice Pat Esdees with a look of despair on his

face. “Need any squid?” I asked. Pat came running.

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5 minutes later, Pat’s on within the same area. He pulls

up a monster WSB. Finally it’s my turn. I’ve got a nice

yellow. I bring it to gaff, took a swing and although

I missed the fish, I broke my line. My yellow is free

swimming near my yak. And by the grace of God

Almighty, I get one more swing and it’s a hit.

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Right after that, two guys in a small boat simultaneously

hook up with WSB. After they landed their fish, they call

me over and show me their earlier catch. A 43lb halibut.

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What a day. I was like being in the middle of a Discovery

Channel documentary. Three days later my mom is cooking up

fish soup with some Yellowtail I had given

her. She calls me at work to tell me she found a hook

with a short little nylon string connected to it in

the Yellowtail’s mouth. I told her to keep it, but if

she found a Heineken in its belly, well, that was mine.

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While she enjoyed Yellowtail soup, I took the belly

meat, diced it, boiled it and turned it into a Tuna

Salad Sandwich. Mmmm Yummy.http://www.kayakfishingmafia.com/gal...w_sandwich.jpg

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PS. If the formatting is all screwed up, it's Adi fault.

Yani

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• do not use pictures that are 2000pix + wide or so... It's going to make your post so wide that 99% of people will have to scroll left & right... people that have smaller resolution monitors... Resize your pictures down to no more than 800pix wide...
• do not write your report in Word or other fancy text editor and then copy and paste directly in to the message board. The board will attempt to take all the fancy formatting, and not being so powerful as Word, you will end up with some unpredictable formatting result. If you really want to use Word to make sure your spelling is cool, before you past it to the board, paste the text first in simple text editor such as Notepad. That will get rid of the fancy formatting.
• Avoid having Yani take your pictures with a big catch on the water unless you don't mind looking at them all over the Internet when the Greek finds time to put the report together. Yeah he seems to have a better camera now, but after all these years, he still didn't seem to learn that other people's story is just that - other people's story. :)