05/29 morning at La Jolla

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Originally Posted by FISH11

Yeah, I was there it was the oddest thing to see. I'm talking to the guy, tell him some stories about LJ, cause he said, it was his first trip to LJ to kayak fish. I believe he said he usually fished San Pedro area. Anyway while I'm fly line drifting a mac and seeing marks on the bottom near bait I started jigging a colt sniper but was not getting any reaction even though I could see my jig dropping on the good marks on the FF. Then he's on a fish and bring it up thinking he has a Calico he has a net ready and as it get near the surface he realizes it's a large Hali and he starts screaming "Oh man it's a Hali a big Hali". as he's now reaching for a gaff the Hali come off the colt sniper he had on the end of a sabiki with 40lb main branch. He now takes off the sabiki and sends the colt sniper down again, the whole time I'm still trying to get something on my colt sniper. After only a couple minutes he's on again and fighting it. When he gets it to the surface, it's another large Hali. He looses his gaff while trying to gaff it, so his buddy comes over and helps him out by gaffing the Hali and passing it back to him. Not only was it too much to see two Hali come up maybe 20 yards away, I would find it really hard to believe it was the same Hali, since in the time it took him to remove the sabiki, we provably drifted 40'-50' from the first spot. We were laughing when he said "Funny I would have to come to LJ to catch what guys fish for were I normally fish". It's not the first time and I'm sure it won't be the last , but strange things happen while kayak fishing LJ.

Cool story.