Abking wannabe, ARW late report, Leopard on Video

No music, no special effects, no sailor-talk... video taken with a handheld Pentax Optio W30.  It's a bitch to reel and hold the camera at the same time!  Abking is the videographer I can only aspire to be!!! 

Anyway....

Last week on that really hot Thursday I hit ARW for butts... on the water at 8:00am, off at 2:00pm... it was SLOOOOOOW!  A couple PB'ers were also out, but they weren't catching anything except pelicans.

Snapperhead gave me a shout on the radio around 11:00am and said he was bagging it due to a migraine... hope you felt better and we'll catch up next time.

I had trolled from the ramp down to Sharky's honeypot (past the end of the rockwall), with a frozen herring/hoochie behind a flasher... got sratched once, but that was it.  At around noon on the slow drift back I hooked into this leopard shark... funny thing, he was bigger than most I've caught, and yet it didn't fight very well at all... I caught one about 2/3'rd that size a couple months ago at Oyster Point that put up twice the fight...

Right at the end of the video when the shark dumped a load of bay water in my lap the leader frayed off at the hook.

Backcountry

Warning:  green-bling Avet SX5.3 gear porn, mounted on Okuma Baidarka

Thanx for the great report and porn!!
I was wondering how you guys did. Since I scraped up that limit, ive been skunked twice. Thats fishing. Its what keeps me coming back.....

Thanks for sharing the video Backcountry. I wonder if thats the same
pelican that harassed me last Saturday. I mean he just keeped following
me as I tried to paddle away from him. Funny and scary at the same time.

Jed

WTG, Backcountry!  A star is born!   

That's a beautiful fish - great subject for a video.  You're on your way, Bro!   

Dude!...you almost sound like him!   That was a SWEET lil'Vid!  a nice Leop' like that would save the day...EVERYDAY!
Thanks for the PornInTheMorn!.....it was GOOD for me, ASitWASforYOU!

oh yea, about the pelicans. Ive had one shadow me for awhile on my last 2 or 3 trips. They have great eyesight, and were keyed in on my see through baitwell. Every time they knew i wasnt looking they made a dash at the tank. I had a few conversations with them, explaining to them that they were very cute n all, but that i couldnt share my bait with them. They are very good listeners, but dont have much to say. That Optio does a great job.

Sharky, I took some videos of a couple pelicans trying to jack me and my yak on the same day... that video isfullof sailor-talk, a la Abking... I'll try to post it tonight.

Dude, I love your signature... drinking club with a fishing problem... are you also in the drinking club with a running problem, a la the Hash Hound Harriers?

Backcountry

That is a really good video considering you were trying to reel while tapping.

J

I think you need a headmount for that camera. or something.