05-13-2003, 05:24 AM
Wow!! what a day.
first, we see a big kep paddy just off the break line of the swells(not very big). then, me, dh_tubinaaron, dhtubinchris, and another frien decide to just go for it.
haha... not very smart. we wait for that little pause in the swells to go out there, but once we get half way, the waves just start pounding on us. aaron and chris both got to ride a wave in, not purposly. but me on the other hand, well.. things didnt go so well...
i got out there. and I look up, and i see one of the better sized swells just about to break on me. I almost dove under the wave, forgetting that i wasnt body boarding. I didnt, but then the wave broke right on top of me. my tube got away from me, my waders were completely filled with water, I was tumbling under water, and I lost my rod and reel. It came out of my rod holder mounted on the back of my tube. we looked for it for a little bit, but we gave up.
chris let me use one of his rod rigged with 4# (perfect). I used a little orange grub with a sparkly jig head. caught what we believe to be a lizard fish, and 2 sand bass on it. my first fish on a plastic from a tube!! yipeeee!!! then we went to the bait receivers. Me and chris were traveling together when he gives me his livewell to go and catch up with aaron to use his cell phone. I didnt think anything of it. well.. then the wind started picking up, and the current was ripping. I was stuck. I was kicking as hard as i could. I wasn't moving anywhere. my feet and my quadraceps started to cramp up. I gave up. I waved down a boat and asked them for a ride. they kindly gave me one back to where aaron and chris were(ahead of me).
I guess this guy went to catalina and got a 40# WSB!!! very nice.
when I caught up with chris and aaron, I gave up on live bait, and jig fishing. I thought I'd try something. I put a little piece of shrimp(the kind you eat, not the live ghost shrimp) on a 1/0 hook. we were kicking our way back to shore with our lines dragging behind us. I had put my rod in my rod holder to my right while i looked behind me to see how much further. I looked back, and the rod was almost doubled over. I reeled it in very carefully, remembering that I only had 4# on it. It turns out that it was a 13 inch sand bass. not as big as i thought it was. MY FIRST LEGAL SANDBASS FROM A TUBE!!!! YAY!!!
with the wind and the current, we decided not to go back out in the water.
we saw a seagul struggling to walk. so we wanted to help. we casted an anchovie at him, trying to get him to bite the hook so that we could take whatever was in him out. well... that didn't work. so we just chased him with a net. it turns out that he had a humungo-bungo halibut trap rig in him. the treble hook was burried, and the single hook was in a bone or something. so we just cut lines and gave it to a lifeguard.
Overall, I had a very fun, at times, and very crappy day! not bad...... very fun! definatly an experience to remember.
good thing that set up wasnt very expensive. a corsair 300a and a cheap abu garcia rod.
in the summer, we think we will try to get back over those waves, hopefully that kelp will still be there. during the summer when the water is warmer, we probably wont be wearing out waders, so we wont have to worry about getting wet. but I'm definatly going to be gripping that rod tightly!!
(that whole thing probably didnt make much sense....oh well!!)
joe
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first, we see a big kep paddy just off the break line of the swells(not very big). then, me, dh_tubinaaron, dhtubinchris, and another frien decide to just go for it.
haha... not very smart. we wait for that little pause in the swells to go out there, but once we get half way, the waves just start pounding on us. aaron and chris both got to ride a wave in, not purposly. but me on the other hand, well.. things didnt go so well...
i got out there. and I look up, and i see one of the better sized swells just about to break on me. I almost dove under the wave, forgetting that i wasnt body boarding. I didnt, but then the wave broke right on top of me. my tube got away from me, my waders were completely filled with water, I was tumbling under water, and I lost my rod and reel. It came out of my rod holder mounted on the back of my tube. we looked for it for a little bit, but we gave up.
chris let me use one of his rod rigged with 4# (perfect). I used a little orange grub with a sparkly jig head. caught what we believe to be a lizard fish, and 2 sand bass on it. my first fish on a plastic from a tube!! yipeeee!!! then we went to the bait receivers. Me and chris were traveling together when he gives me his livewell to go and catch up with aaron to use his cell phone. I didnt think anything of it. well.. then the wind started picking up, and the current was ripping. I was stuck. I was kicking as hard as i could. I wasn't moving anywhere. my feet and my quadraceps started to cramp up. I gave up. I waved down a boat and asked them for a ride. they kindly gave me one back to where aaron and chris were(ahead of me).
I guess this guy went to catalina and got a 40# WSB!!! very nice.
when I caught up with chris and aaron, I gave up on live bait, and jig fishing. I thought I'd try something. I put a little piece of shrimp(the kind you eat, not the live ghost shrimp) on a 1/0 hook. we were kicking our way back to shore with our lines dragging behind us. I had put my rod in my rod holder to my right while i looked behind me to see how much further. I looked back, and the rod was almost doubled over. I reeled it in very carefully, remembering that I only had 4# on it. It turns out that it was a 13 inch sand bass. not as big as i thought it was. MY FIRST LEGAL SANDBASS FROM A TUBE!!!! YAY!!!
with the wind and the current, we decided not to go back out in the water.
we saw a seagul struggling to walk. so we wanted to help. we casted an anchovie at him, trying to get him to bite the hook so that we could take whatever was in him out. well... that didn't work. so we just chased him with a net. it turns out that he had a humungo-bungo halibut trap rig in him. the treble hook was burried, and the single hook was in a bone or something. so we just cut lines and gave it to a lifeguard.
Overall, I had a very fun, at times, and very crappy day! not bad...... very fun! definatly an experience to remember.
good thing that set up wasnt very expensive. a corsair 300a and a cheap abu garcia rod.
in the summer, we think we will try to get back over those waves, hopefully that kelp will still be there. during the summer when the water is warmer, we probably wont be wearing out waders, so we wont have to worry about getting wet. but I'm definatly going to be gripping that rod tightly!!
(that whole thing probably didnt make much sense....oh well!!)
joe
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