Fishing trawler nets a 881 pound Blue Fin Tuna and loses it. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/man-catches-881-pound-tuna-seized-feds-194650751.html

From the article:

"They said it had to be caught with rod and reel," a frustrated Rafael said. "We didn't try to hide anything. We did everything by the book. Nobody ever told me we couldn't catch it with a net." Rafael says he has meticulously prepared for a giant catch like this, purchasing 15 tuna permits over the past four years for his groundfish boats.

Apparently he forgot to read the fishing regulations during his meticulous preparations. FAIL!

Yikes! And the competition resumed after a brief interruption, probably for changing wet suits.

http://www.grindtv.com/surf/blog/30887/shark+scares+surfer+from+water+during+elite+san+francisco+competition/

After a few seasons of dragging my P13 up and down beaches, its keel has suffered serious wear, and also have some deep gouges. I am thinking of rebuilding the worned out area using polyethylene weld rod. Polyethylene has a melting point around 250 F, but all the heat guns I have seen have temperatures starting above 500 F. I am afraid of melting a hole in the keel.

Do you guys have any first hand experience or tips you can share on how to go about this repair?

Fished the shoal between the green buoy and the breakwater this morning with Lunker and Orca4. Conditions were unbelievable: sunny, no wind, and only an occasional swell. Kept 2 kelp greenlings, a gopher, and a black and yellow. Also very carefully released a sculpin. 

Orca4 was only there to break in his shiny new kayak, so he mostly followed us around. Around 1pm, he headed in while Lunker and I continued to fish.

After another hour of fruitless jigging, I was ready to call it a day. I looked around for Lunker, and saw him clinging to his capsized kayak. I raced over, and saw that he was struggling in the water wearing an unzipped PFD, and unable to right his kayak. After I talked him through the process of righting his kayak and self rescue, he was finally able to get back on his kayak. But he had lost all his gear: rods and reels, tackle box, bait... I was able to recover whatever was left floating. But the rods and reels are at the bottom of the bay.

Lunker was very lucky today. Had the conditions not been as nice as they were, he would have been in serious trouble even after just a few minutes of immersion wearing a t shirt and jeans. I hope this experience did not scare him off the water for good.

Conditions look perfect: 2-3 foot swells, 7 mph wind, partly cloudy,  67 - 69 degrees. Beats the 90+ degree heat in the east bay. Anyone interested?

There is a story on KTVU about poachers going after stranded sturgeons. 

http://www.ktvu.com/news/27525005/detail.html

More video:

http://www.ktvu.com/video/27524788/index.html