Made plans to hit the beach with my buddy Sean. Not sure what we were gonna run into as the forecast was for 50% chance of rain and it was drizzling when I picked him up. The day turned out great, stayed overcast till around 9-10, no rain, low surf and slack tide coming.Overall we had some great conditions today.
We picked up some of the usual suspects: mac, bone, pancakes and calicos, Sean picked up a Juvie WSB & I scored my second Legal halibut and new PB, all 35.5 inches of Fatty Flatty.
I got a big hit while working a spot Sean had said to hit while he went back to rework another spot. First cast, picked up a micro bone at 8-10 in that I decided to keep for bait. 2nd cast, 1/2 way in, BANG, zzzz zzzz zzzz. I could tell it was a big fish, but didn't know just how big. Originally, I was thinking either a nice legal hali or a big Calico by the way it was fighting. Heavy strong fish, head shakes and stayed deep. After a couple good runs, as the fish got into the surf zone, it did a somersault and I caught a glimpse of the huge white belly and tail, I was like, "Holy S**t, big Hali!. I knew then that I wanted a landing assist with this one, so I bellowed for Sean who was 200yds down the beach and frantically waved him to get his rear over to me. Once Sean arrives and I get the beast into the shallows, it took 3-4 tries to get her far enough up the beach for Sean to get a good tail grab and finish pushing her up the sand. We took some pics and back in the water she goes. I big tail slap to say goodbye and off she goes strong as can be.
Epic day on the sand and thanks for reading.
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Are you kidding me!
Beautiful Hali Ron, congrats!!
Well, DAMN! Beautiful fish Boss! Juvie WSB also, as well as bonies... great session.
Bravo on the CPR! I'm not sure if I would have had the will power, but you deserve mad props. 8)
Nice phlat phatty brah! Congrats on the new PB!
X2 on the cpr kudos! Them Hali tacos are too good to let swim away!
That's a great catch.
So that's where my skim board went.
Nice one!
Stellar my man, can't say enough about the release........................many karma points earned