Flat Bastard at Paradise

My local favorite spots have sucked this year so I decided to join the crown and hit the bay. My work SUCKED on Thurs., so I went solo for some solitude.  Was thinking about ARW but hit Paradise/Quintin so I could avoid the hassle of the five-one-oh.

Jigged briefly but bait was fast and ez.  Sent down a pefect jacky.  Not long afterwards I felt the tippy tappy of "get in mah belly".  Let it eat it and wound down to find weight.  I never get excited in the bay as the wrong kind out numbers the right kind 2,348:1.  However, when I got it to color I panicked!!!!

It made a bolting run to the bottom, but my freshly serviced Inshore was like butah.  One more trip to the top and a gentle lift of the gaff...and then it tried to pull my arm out of the socket.  This thing went nuts on the gaff.  I hung on, and managed a few well-placed swings from the mini-Rawlins.  Clipped it, tethered it, cut the gills, and thanked SWEET JESUS! 



A nice, but clearly annoyed dude in a boat worth about 60X my yak was kind enough to snap this pic...



On the Hawg...



Easily my personal best...



So even though I hate fishing the garbage can that is SFB, there are some damn nice fish in there right now!

Nice Butt Sean

Way to go, Sean!  Hope that kicked the work stink! 

Jesus H!!!!

 Hawg Hali!!!

  WTG.......

Thanks guys!

Hope that kicked the work stink!

You know it did 

Sweet dude! Nice way to get off the work stink!

Nice! 

Very nice Sean.  

awesome! and the universe has balanced itself again

Scarey, beautiful, beast!
You jigged up jacksmelt right there? And they were the right size?

The great big jackies almost always get bit, but getting a good hookup has been nearly impossible, so you gotta sort through em till you get one the size of a big herring, those are money.

A jacksmelt goes down and a halibut gets landed. what could be better? fantastic fish.

Great Story Sean and what a healthy 'butt

Damn dude,  you got a big butt !!

SWEET!