Excellent! Thanks for the Intel Mike!

Beautiful evening weather after the wind died down. Several spots of YT popped up. Keyed on live bait and just out of casting range. LJ is gonna go wide open soon!! Limits of 8-13" calicos with a few legals mixed in. Lots of fun on the right gear. Also keyed in on live bait. I kept 2. Also lots of pencils swimming around. Clouds of macks as well. LJ is so full of life right now.

Im still jacked up, but I'd cruise down. Maybe soak a crab for a croaker.

Sasquatch?  Mike?  Anyone up for a try soon?

I still need the electric hooked up to the house and paint a missed hard to reach spot, but it was still fun this weekend prepping some crab fossils, listening to music and drinking 165 proof moonshine.  Honestly, I don't remember closing up the shop and hitting the sack, but everything was in order in the morning, so apparently, I closed it up soon as the shine really started kicking in and not after it destroyed me. 

Quote from: Latimeria on May 17, 2025, 05:48:59 PMRight on Tim! I really enjoyed the screenshot of Max asking you for details on social media.  lol

Lol, same!! You're an internet superstar in the making Tim!

Sounds like a great day at work. I'm currently at work. I'm 7hrs in. FDA starting tomorrow. People are sh!tting bricks here. They irritate me.

I can't tell you how many times I see some cool or big fish when I don't have my fishing gear (or it's illegal to fish in).

Rumors always have some truth to it.  A while ago I heard of 200# Black Sea Bass being caught a few times in Mission Bay but I honestly shrugged it off until Jerry caught it on the Bat Fight last year. 

I really hope you get your surf striper soon.  When I caught mine, I felt like it was no big deal since I used to catch them in the surf out east all the time.  Now I realize how cool it is.

I took a walk today in the local wetland reserve, highly illegal to fish in. Kept my eye out looking for something cool, maybe some little white seabass in the shallows.

Got to a spot where I saw a striped bass about 24" casually roll up to the edge of the shore. I flipped out and said to Alicia "do you know how rare those damn things are?!?" She just called me a nerd.

Then I saw at least 3 more about the same size, then about four white seabass cruised through the same spot, all around 32". I was just laughing and shaking my head, they're swimming by us like it's a f@cking petting zoo. They know I can't fish for them.

Water was just off color enough that I couldn't get any good pics. They did countless laps for 5 minutes before I got too close and they got shy.

This may be common knowledge at this point that these quality fish are in there but I never believed any rumor that I heard until I seent it with my own eyes.