Tides and winds look good for a striper beat down! Company welcome.

Poor stripers...

I got all snooty and moved a report from public to "members", said with my nose up in the air in my most demeaning aristocratic accent.

Joe, I so wanted to join you but my schedule this week just doesn't work out.  Starting in Oct., I will be officially retired and can join you whenever and wherever, from stripers in Benicia in Oct. and back to RF in Nov.  Good luck Tuesday and tight lines!

Oooo, that's good to know on da retirement.  I'm a Monday guy in general and I'm hoping to kill Lings with ya' at the appointed time...

!!!!!!  Crazy!!!!!

But you bleed and gut it over the water and not the boat, right? You just hold it next to the boat and don’t let it hang off the boat on the stringer?

I need to learn how to gut a hali. I’ve been filleting them and working around the guts, or getting to them from filleting. I don’t know the right way to cut the stomach….time to watch some you tube videos.

Wot!?  Are you getting excited about killin' fish?  I kinda do.  It is a most important skill for quality meat.  Sharks can smell a drop of blood up to a mile away?  Fact check...hopefully there is other blood in the water from different sources or other yakkers to not necessarily have them say hey, this mumble peg guy's yak smells tasty, who knows, maybe Malibu Artist.  I'm a little spoiled with a hatch that is for fish storage. 

My order of dispatch

Gaff or net, preferably gaff.
I store my game clip open and secure fish on clip. Hold that clip like a boss.  Things can suddenly go ballistic.
Loosen spool to place rod in holder out of the way.
Center fish in my lap, look out for hook.  Remove hook.  Often I'll attach lip grippers for a different handle with leash around wrist.
Brain spike and givver a bit of spike twirl.
Run da wire up the nerve bundle(ikijime)
Cut the gills and give a look around.  With clip attached to paracord and yak, givver a dunk and allow for a few pumps of blood out.  Maybe 15 seconds.
Back on lap.
Wet burlap sack and kinda pre open because getting a fish in a burlap sack can be a little snaggy with teeth or fins.
Remove fish from clip, slip into sack and put in hatch. 
Woohoos are now in order!
If time allows I"ll guttem near to landing.  Knife up from da kine to the chin and rippum out.  On the game clip or leashed gripper of course.  Many ways to accidentally release one's catch into the sea from wherest it came.
Clean up deck and get back fishin'

I'm sure you'll find the Mumblepeg way...see ya' on da wattah'

 

Brah!  Bo was kind to you...I'm glad you caught a hali!  Stinking salmon...trash fish...   See ya' on da wattah'.

Hi.  I get the “itch”.  It’s like a fever and there’s only one prescription.  More cowbell…I digress…maybe you’re an experienced waterman and a 2@12 direct swell at Muir doesn’t matter.  Just gotta wait for the window and when you decide to go, don’t look back hesitate or any other doubt and go go go….the landing is the tricky part.  Worst case I jump off my yak and grab the stern.  Make sure all your gear is stowed and or leashed flat.  Doran is a way better place to manage a protected launch.  Bolinas is a storytelling location, class 301 on a tough day for beach launch and land…I hope you get a scratch and a halibut.

It looks to be written under the commercial phrasing.

I did not see the sentence above the commercial paragraph.

Bummer