Stillwater delivers 6/3

I met up with Mike P. and his son Matt from Davis at Stillwater. Arrived to find epic conditions; flat, sunny, and beautiful. Mike and Matt were on the water ahead of me and were into a good bite with a variety of rockfish in the bag within their first hour. My day started out slow and then with a flip of the switch the fish gods smiled down upon me as I basked in the hot sun fishing the pot-holes in the kelp. I was reeling up in about 25' of water when my pole went bendo, thinking I was snagged on the kelp I decided to give a tug before going through the routine I know all to well. All of sudden I start feeling the shaking that is distinctive to mr. Lingalator and Bam the fight is on and he starts taking line. I had a decent pole with by Abu Amb. 5500 and I start taking line back. He did not like that very much and tried to wrap me into the kelp, I wasn't having any of that and cranked the drag and readied the net. He was a chubby 26"+ and needless to say I was very satisfied. Finished the day with two solid blues, great conditions, and a fat ling-Priceless

Beautiful weather! Nice Ling!  Thanks for the report and pictures.

Holy Kelpamoly!!!!!

Very nice, congrats on the ling solsrf1.

Jedmo

And THATS the appeal of Stillwater! Lotsa lings.
Nice work Mike!

Nice bronze color on that ling.  WTG.   

 Okay I get it now!  Was an epic morning of sleeping in for me, oops

Well deserved ling Solsurf1.Looks like a great day on the water.Makes sitting at work even harder.

Very nice!! Wish I was there enjoying those conditions. I wanted to go on my day off this Friday, but looks like the weather is going to be bad.

Thanks for the report and pics,
Ray

nice color on that fish.  almost as colorful as your bait.
good outing

Nice bronze color on that ling.  WTG.   

I like your creative abalone artwork Abking, shoot me some more pictures when you get time. Mike