Amazing stuff as always.  I still remember the time I was there it poured! lol

Lots of greenery back there. Them little Bass are fun to catch when they are on the Chew

English Muffins are the BEST !

Poison Ivy and Flip Flops are a great combination

Looks Damn Good !

I finally prepped my garden but it's too late for this year

Fun Bass and bottom feeder session

Boat Ramp chaos sucks out loud

 Well, time for The 28th Annual Pig Party and it ain't a party without Cheez
 

Then more Trailer Trash showed up


Decorations were in order too



Time to get busy and get the Pig and load it into Max's new truck



Pig Prepping is a snap after all these years





The pit was all ready to light and I needed to 86 a couple Bar Stools, Cheez lit the Flare and we had fire !




We threw wood from 5pm till about 11pm





The Rocket flew over the house too


Time to bury Mr. Pig






Saturday, time to PARTY ! My neighbor even had shirts made up  
 

People were showing up and things took off from there, even had a Little Italy sighting



Time do dig




Chow Time, the line was long








I believe Tom knows this Mechanic from The Wild Animal Park


Some great friends from Elementary and High School


Sunday rolled around, time to clean up and return some stuff back to SDG&E (Aaron works there)


The neighbor came and loaded their stuff and Cheez rolled out too 



As of today, The Pit is still hot and will be for a couple weeks


Great party as usual, hopefully some fishing buddies show up one of these years

Nice day! Slamming critters for a couple hours is always a good time.

Looks delicious! I've never had eggplant parmesan.

I've seen some boats making squid off of TP and SK.

Plan was to fish offshore for the local tuna that I've heard about, but my buddy had to back out so I prepped the Curmudgeon.  I know there was squid last week, so I decided to make it a real effort to find them, or at least mackerel for live bait.  I decided I wasn't bringing any cut or frozen bait and it would all be artificial unless I caught live stuff.

I searched for over an hour looking and probing the grounds for squid and mackerel.  Nothing... not an egg sack or a single mack to be found.  I saw clouds of wiggles with eyes on the meter, but they didn't even take the micro sabiki.

Marine weather was nice.  A decent number of boats and kayaks spread out all over La Jolla.  Good thing was they weren't bunched up, but it made trolling hard.



I trolled and searched for a few hours.  Some newbie in a Yum Yum yellow kayak was yelling really loud next to me "I got a Yellowtail".... "I got a WSB!" ... as his buddy was trying to keep up with him.  Sure enough, he had a WSB...  I didn't get a great view of how big it was, but I totally would have been happy with that.

Otherwise I scanned the crowd as I trolled deep diving rapalas and never saw a single rod bent over except for kayak guy.

With 2 hours left before I told myself I wanted to get out of there (Beat the Over the Line and Summer Crowd traffic), I decided to just switch it up and see what some of these clouds in LJ were.

Pretty, but also pretty small.



I switched to the weedless plastic and pulled out some Gulp Shrimp.  I figured I had to get something now!



I set spot lock up on a shallow hump and start whacking the bass



Then the New Seaforth rolls up and seriously drops anchor 75 feet from me.  They started brailing chum and there went my bite.  All the fish swam to their stern...  Grrrr....

I made the move because staying there would only eat at me more so I did a little searching.  The Gulp shrimp found them.... and I literally was going cast the swimbait and let it sink as I was reeling in a fish on the Gulp.

Every Gulp was a bottom critter.



Every swimbait was a bass and some really nice ones!







There's always one that messes with the order.  LOL





I pretty much lost count but think I got about 20 bass and 20 bottom critters in 2.5 hours.  (I stayed a little later than expected since the bite was pretty fun)

I also got a toad Sculpin





and a Cabbie!  I don't catch many of them around here.  I've caught them before a few times, but it's like 1 a year usually.





The sun finally popped through and I started to get swarmed on... by lizards.

For the life of me, I don't know how they get managed to get hooked.



Well, that was it.  Fought the summertime bay crowd to the ramp and had to look for openings from all the OTL RV's blocking the ramp all trying to get to the dump station.

Got home and didn't keep a single fish due to my freezers still overflowing with Channel Islands catches.

Until next tide!

With the abundance of eggplant, it was time to make some parm!

Cut into 1/2" slices and deskinned. 
-Flour
-Egg bath
-Italian Bread Crumbs

Fry in pan until both sides are golden brown.



Put a layer of homemade tomato sauce on the bottom followed by sauce and cheese and start to layer.



Sauce, cheese, and a third layer!





Put in the oven at 420 degrees for 30 minutes and voila!  Bt far the best eggplant parm I've ever made and maybe eaten!



A little ziti on the side.



It was well worth all of the preparation!