Fish & Chill at Half Moon Bay Sat 2-28-09

Arrived at the SP just after 8am, met up mooch, Al, Bob ( I think, sorry if I'm wrong) parked, unloaded my fishing stuff, Bs'd a little.  Mean time the park ranger was not in the kiosk so I wasn't able to pay when I drove in.  Walked up and he was just opening.  Paid, headed back and started to don my waders, rig up the pole.  Mooch and Al were ready to go, so I sent them off and continued to rig. 
  Followed a few minutes later.


Al's First BSP



PaulR's 3rd and largest  caught Sat.


My first, used pile worms.  (Thanks Paul for bringing them and allowing us to use them)

Al, Mooch, Adam and Bella

Mooch.

Frank.

Frank about to real wet chasing his hat!

Mooch "Providing" Lumpia,  Yummy stuff!

Adam doing what he does best when not sleighing the fish!

Al, chillin, before starting to make his "Man Beans"

Lumipia! That stuff is pretty good! Thanks Mooch!

Start of the now infamous "Man beans"  Al probably has another name for his dish, but for now I'll call it Man beans, they were very Tasty!

All that's needed to cook the beans, a nice fire.

More prep for the beans.

Today's haul.

Chef tending his masterpiece.

Man Beans! Nuf said!  (Ok they were yummy!

Fish ready to be folded up for the fire.

The fish ready for the fire.
 PaulR within minutes of casting had a double hookup!  Turns out, live bait really out fished the plastics today.

 As mentioned briefly above, PaulR brought pile worms (creepy critters) and live shrimp.  Fishing was slow for me on the plastics I had, I had a few real good hits, but due to my hook size choice I was missing hook set. I downsized my hook to a #6 gamagatsu and using started using those ugly bitting pile Worms.  I started to land fish.  Big thanks goes out to Paul from me, as well as the rest for letting us use the bait. 

  Waves were not all the huge, but the wind came up pretty bad sometime after 3:30 4pm time frame, and it was making casting a little difficult.  We decided to stop and head to camp for dinner.
Mooch started dinner off with his Lumpia. I helped test taste many samples.  I approved.   Al was fixing his "Manbeans" and Frank was fixing the fish & Rice.  I sampled the fish, It was good.
Dark thirty arrived and I was fading fast.  Headed home.

Nice to fish with everyone and meet new friends.  I think that I got lucky bringing live bait (that is all we used when I was a kid).

I wish that AJ (my son Adam) and I could have chilled with you last night but AJ had school band commitments.

Thank you Fishunter for telling AJ about boogie boarding and how dangerous the surf can get (yeah I think he needs fins).

You were entertaining with all the hollerin' in the tubes and face carving.

Hope you didn't wake up in the middle of the night with leg cramps.  Hope to meet more of you soon.

Thanks for the report and sharing some pictures CGN-38. Looks like a load of fun.
Man, all those food looks so yummy.

Jedmo

Even "Good Times" barely does it justice when you're chillin' like that - WTG, All, on another great hookup.   

Tried to talk my lady to drive up there with me this weekend my freinds but the no, go ahead, kept me here in Monterey County. .. Next time! Congrats on the BSP my bruthas!..All the grub looks great.Oh by the way Mooch whats up with the Homeade lumpias?

Hey Mooch, what did you do with the fish-heads. Don't you love fish-heads?!!! 

Looks like another great hookup. Keep it going. What's next? Del Valle?

Looks fun guys. That's where I learned to perch! Great beach. Looks like great conditions.. especially that clean wave in the bkg. I know there's some other surfers who saw this. FH, you didn't bring you BB and wetsuit???

Z

Are'nt you going to eat those heads?! Looked like fun, fellas. And Adam with a brewski- thats only the second or third time Ive seen that!

   Sorry I didn't mention it in my report, yeah FH brought his BB and boogied for about 2hrs straight!  He looked like he was having some fun!  I'm sure he'll chime in here soon enough.  Not sure what happened to the fish heads, Frank kinda took command of the fish, cleaning,prepping, and cooking.  I was good to finally get into some fish.  Last 5 perch outtings I made, were all skunks!  Next time out though, I'm bringing some of those creepy worms!

What a bummer I missed out on your fish-and-chill Mooch , looks like you guys had a good time, but how can you not have a good time when your with good people, Next time for sure  .

Pat R

More pics, from a great time Chill'n and Fishing with the guys...

Looks like a nice day for surf fishing.

 What can I say about the weekend?  = MISSION ACCOMPLISHED = We fished and chilled Despite the horrible rain and wind forecast, the hardcore showed up and partied like rockstars 

I got to the site Friday night and met BobN and Al and we made dinner as Frank followed later inn the evening.

* Site where the "man-vans" parked
* Site for the tent camper (Al)

Saturday:

*Troy and Al praying to the perch gods for help......
* Adam, Paul and son Adam prepping on the beach...

Adam's body boarding pics.....