New Annual Parking Permit Acquired! (2/5)

[Latimeria]

I wasn't sure what I was going to do in the morning, but was planning or at least hoping to fish for an hour or two.  5:55am and my phone starts ringing!  WTF?

I see the number and it looks familiar so I answered.  Turns out it was a recruiter (from the east coast) having a potential job opportunity out here in San Diego!  I had to go from "Dead Asleep" to "Interview Mode" in seconds without a cup of coffee!  This was way more stressful than you think!

Interview done and now I'm a little stressed.  Trying to get interviewed in that scenario is not easy but I think I did well so it was time for a cup of coffee!

I grab my rods since I was wide awake now and head down to the puddles.

I started bass fishing at first but went back to trout fishing right away since I haven't seen a bass caught in a month around here.



I switched lakes and started soaking baits for a quiet morning... until a group olf old betties were walking by and blocked my view of my rod.  They were all turned at the rod, so something was going on.  I parted the "Gray Sea" and saw my rod doubled over!  I was hoping for a trout, but realized it was most likely a cat.  The ladies were more stoked than me!  LOL



I wasn't keeping this one so I let it go after a quick picture and hook removal.

Then it was as quiet as ever or possibly even more.  I did a last cast and set my 15 minute timer...

10 minutes... Nothing

5 minutes and I see my SI out of the corner of my eye get thrown into the lake!  UGH, that means a cat but Fish On none the less!

As I was fighting it, I started to change my mind about it being a cat.  It was making blistering runs and going apesh!t!  I then got eyeballs on it and it was a REALLY nice trout!  I took my time and there were no people or birds that could have messed it up so it was a really fun fight!

In the net and onto the scaled Lip Gripper!



Friggin beauty! at ~4.25# on the spring scale!



Funny thing it was a Cut Bow (What they were calling Steelhead)!  What a fun fis indeed, even though it looked like a normal triploid trout.



Well, I made one more cast and headed home.  My granddaughter is coming over tomorrow for the weekend, so I'm going to be Papa for the weekend and probably means no fishing for me.  I do plan on cooking a huge Super Bowl dinner though, so it'll make up for it.

Thanks for reading and I'm contemplating heading down for the final two hours today before the park closes.  I need to clean these lakes out of trout!