Hell's Kitchen !!! Looks amazing   

Cool adventure down South, bummer you had The Crud !

Driving thru Desert is quite boring

You bled red on Foreign soil, Rebel all the way !!!

Speaking of Koga, he has Lock Jaw lately

I was going to say them Gulls did the mess

Fun Father's Day, even when they are small they are fun !

My garden is a dead weed patch from last year still  

Productive, solid session!

Quote from: Latimeria on Today at 09:37:37 AMGreat read Jeremy and what a terrible way to start the trip.  I have to admit just looking at the beaches, it yelled Arizona to me for some reason, like a spot Koga would go to drink bad booze.

Congrats on the new species and are those really spotted bass or possibly a different sub species?  They actually look a little different.

Once again, thanks for the report and the bloody hand.  I got stuck with a little sergeant major down in Baja and I swear it f@cked up my hand for the entire week.

The spotties sure did seem brighter, I'm guessing due to the 81° water. I really have a hard time believing they aren't at least a different subspecies but all the serious sources say it's one species.

I mentioned Koga to several Arizonians while I was down there, they all said they still remember his smell.

That ain't kids. It's the seagulls

That's a lot different from the last time I was there. 45 years ago? Lol

The garden is spitting out produce, but nothing more than the Boston Pickles I planted.



Green beans are also just overwhelming us.



Hmmm... Time to make the pickles!



I made 6 jars to start and damn, they are good.  I have to laminate this recipe because nothing I've ever had even comes close!



I didn't have garlic cloves, so I used garlic powder in a pinch.  It didn't matter... it was so good.

Decided to try the bay for a couple of hours, but the tide was LOW....

I went to an old spot I haven't casted plastics in a while, and it did disappoint.  Not even a tail grabber.

Friggin tourists or kids really left a mess too.



Lots of shrimp volcanoes here...



I walked for a half a mile and got into the really shallow weedy stuff.

The weed guard jig was even worthless here, so I went straight Texas Rig weedless.



Finally on the board with a Pee-pee bass.



Then I got into them within the next 20 yards until I burnt through all of my plastics.



I caught a dozen, but doubt a single one even reached 11".



In any case, I headed home happy with the results.  I stopped off at a fossil spot I haven't hunted in 20 years looking for fossil sand dollars, but there was nothing left of the formation.  I'm sure it's still there, but it was covered up with the "Modernization of society".  Oh well, another one bites the dust...