Lost Coast Evening - 7/13/08

Family times with the swimming pool and BBQ'd tritip, dogs, and burgers at the cabin in Phillipsville today got over with a sleepy drive up 101 from 90 degree weather back home to the coast at 4:30.  I had some yard duty that I quickly dispatched as mama went grocery shopping.  When she got back I was ready to pack the truck and jet over the hill - the buoy report was just right, but no partners calling back...  I was determined to fish inshore for a cabezon, and when I arrived around 6:30 I saw it was so flat I could do that wherever I'd ever wanted to drop a ball of ab guts.  But the outside reef called way too strong.  I was mesmerized by the silky smooth water and orange sun.  I paddled out and fished a couple of great hours on my favorite reef, with the dolphins buzzing me (hope I got a little on video...), the wind barely a factor, and the fog finally descending on me at 8PM, making me glad my GPS and compass backup were attached to me and in full working order.  I ran big hardware only - 10 oz leadhead with big white quadruple tail, 6.5 oz. Dorado Megabait...  and I had a bare hook over it that I didn't want to cut off in case I ended up bait fishing later.  So the bare hook gets hit like half a dozen times - little yellow tail, little blacks, a blue...  But not much action on the big terminal lead and iron tonight.  Got one big black, one nice vermillion, and one fiesty china.  I kept the red.

The water was magic water.  I couldn't have been in a better place.   

Man that looks nice! Flaaaat water is always good.

Love that glassy looking water!  Thanks for the pictures, nice Red 

Eric, That was magic water indeed. Magic fish. Magical Times.............and we get to share them all here.

Nice Eric!

Thanks for the pics and report, and a very nice red.

Hope to get up there soon, we just started our road trip today and hope to be on some mountain lakes in the Tetons by next weekend.......

Take care,

Norm

Nice red Abking thanks for the report.

Jed

Beautiful water and nice fishy....

Another great outing for the Abking........

was hoping for another video post
the big red will have to do i guess.

Thanks, all, for kind words - it's much appreciated.   

was hoping for another video post
the big red will have to do i guess.

I'll try to get a video up before it's stale!     Damn film crew ( ) takes too much footage, so review, compilation, and editing is a bitch!   

I was also thinking it's getting kinda played out...  Believe me, I'm trying to think of new angles on the fish porn!     

Reads like you had a good trip....quality family time first...then off to Quench the Madness! Can you believe the WX this weekend....even though it's still slow, getting out when it's like this, then showing it, is what drove me to do this Ocean stuff, instead of chasing down the smaller game in the overheated local lakes.(not that there's anything wrong with that) but getting damn near yanked over the side of your Yak, after that BigFish hits it and dives down, is FRICKEN ADDICTING! 

any ANGLE you Dandle your Camera..as long as it's got some HardCore F.P...it's gonna be Viewed, Appreciated and Loved by the REAL FisherPersons that want and need to see it.
~just remember~ THEREisAlil'AbkingINallOFus...whether we will admit it or not!
Keep on Vid'n! 

nice report, the water conditions are always like that in your area right?

Eric:  Nice report, those are some dorky looking shorts, I like it

Jim

Thanks for another opportunity to live vicariously thru your trips, lurking on the site is about all I'm doing these days, 

Thanks for another opportunity to live vicariously thru your trips, lurking on the site is about all I'm doing these days, 

You'll actually never read of a lurker lamenting of his lurking... because he only lurks.  You, Dale, are no lurker.