Jetty's

[wade]

We dont need no stinkin' jettys!!...


I may not live like a king..but I sure as hell try to eat like one..



Launched around 5:00 pm Tuesday 5th with Eric #431 aka Deepdvr.
Landed around 4:30 am Wednesday Jan 6th, 2010.

My first open ocean bugs! Every net produced at least between 5-10 cxxt-hair clickers on every pull..
I have never seen it this consistent anywhere up the entire coast of my spots. But I previously only targeted harbors & jetties. When I first moved to SD ten years ago, I found this "somewhat" remote beach that I have been wanting to go hit for years, but could never find anyone serious to reconnaissance it & Fully test it out at night..On my lunch breaks whenever in LJ, I would go to this very spot to get my grub on & enjoy a smoke gazing at the potential I knew was underneath.This is the kind of spot where the crawl begins when you drop..We launched in washing machine conditions.The wind let up a bit but the pulse got stronger throughout the night, as we could hear the reef exploding & the boiler zones & reefs near by churning up mere feet away..
Around midnight we decided to head north a bit, and land the usual way...without stitches.
Eric had one & I had two nice ones now. One 1/4" over & another 1/8 over.
I could have had four more keepers as the gauge almost locked but didn't want to chance it..

*(2011 F&G Amendment: Carapace lower hairs will count as overall measurement.)*

Another hour paddle to the Shores, but safe..& I'm damn glad we did. We paused for a break just outside the reserve and dropped the hoops one last time for sh!ts & giggles. I had pretty much completely given up on hooping LJ shores as of last year. No way would I waste my time anymore when i would only produce 3 micro bugs for an entire evenings work to show for..Somehow this one fat bastard, (Middle one) came up on the 2nd pull.
Pulled the sets 2 more rounds & called it a great night..
Misc catches: Brought up a small eel, that slipped though mesh unnoticed. When i adjusted my headlamp to measure the bugs I noticed I had a small conger & started spastically searching for anything to fling him overboard before he tried to neuter me?!..
(Last week I learned the hard way just how powerful those filthy Sculpins poison really is.
It completely rendered my hand useless. For almost a week my right hand was seized and frozen..)

I finally got to bed around 7 am after cleaning them, with the sound of pounding surf emanating in my head...
(I live inland Oceanside btw)
Cant say enough how thankful i am Deepdvr for your wing man skills last night. Had a blast!!!

[nabeeko]

[Whizz Bang]

Congrats guys, tasty lookin fellers. Eric #634A is indeed a great wingman.

-Eric #538B

[deepdvr]

WING MAN????

I'm just happy that you didn't call me a pussy for dropping those subtle hints about how gnarly the landing would be. It would have been a plastic and flesh pinball game against those boilers. When that north wind was blowing pretty good I was estimating the time it would take to paddle to Mission Bay.

That was alot of fun. Although my gauge is worn out from measuring all those damn barely illegals. In one molt they'll be dinner. I'm going to eat my langosta and then fall asleep for a long time.

E

[wade]

NO man's da top dog in those situations!..
its ALL Wingman 2 Wingman compadre..

..& let the red bugs bite!

[emrliquidlife]

You gents are better men than me. 6 hours in the yak and I can barely walk afterward.

Fawk 11 hours! How many pulls did you do? The pain hurts just to think about it.

Ed