Paradise Park 7/26/09

Fished with Obkook and Sailfish at Paradise.  Obkook scored some shiners from Keith @ Loch Lomond - smallest shiners i've ever seen.  There was consistent action all morning.  PBs were hooking up here and there, obkook got robbed 4 times.  He had a huge takedown which bit off his braided line.  I finally managed to get a bite and stuck a 20in striper.

Obkook and I quit around 1pm - bite died around noon.  We expected things to pick up later in the afternoon but decided not to wait.

The stripers stomach was stuffed full with grass shrimp - they were fresh and undigested.

wtg on the striper early bird got the worm!?

I sticked around until 6pm.  Got a 26" Hali around 5:30pm.  Got to get home to pick-up my son at SFO at 10:30pm.  Just got back home, to tired to upload the pictures to Photobucket.  Will post a detailed report an pictures tomorrow.

HUGE intel Shicken--- thanks...guess I'll go take a look up on the flats for your stripers friends

Thanks for the reports, fellas!

WTG guys, Sonny congrats on your Hali man.



Kiel

Congrats on the hali my 415'er brothers..

Got to LL baitshop around 7:15am and picked up 1/2 dozen of Shiners from Keith.  Took a picture of his pet wondering around waiting for a meal  


Hit traffic jam when getting close to Paradise due to some kind of "Tour de Paradise"  


Got to the launch ramp and suprised by the cleaned launch path (thanks to whoever did this).


The water was FAC and saw my future sail boat  

Met Marvin/Shicken and Peter/obkook OTW and trolling with them around the point.  Got a couple of hits but nothing sticked.


Saw several Hali's landed from the party boat.  Heard on the radio they caught around 15 of them.


Marvin landed a Striper


OTW pictures

Marvin and Peter left around 1pm.  I decided to head over to the piling area and try my luck there.  Saw many birds diving for bait fish all afternoon.  I guess they're better at fishing than we're    Finally hooked-up and landed a 26" Hali around 5:30pm.




Slowly trolled back to the ramp and got off the water around 6pm.  If I don't have to pickup my son at the SFO, I'll probably fish until they kick me out of the park 

Thanks for posting the pics, Sonny!

And WTG on your persistence to get that Hali - you really deserved it!

I missed a couple of decent bites, and was frustrated at myself for that, but the day was absolutely georgeous out there - warm, calm, and sunny - even though we were hearing radio chatter from sailboats finding more wind than they wanted.

I even caught myself dozing in the warm sun at one point!

"Got to the launch ramp and suprised by the cleaned launch path (thanks to whoever did this)."

dittos. thanks indeed! that's good news. congrats on keeping the mojo flowing Sonny

Nice wtg on the hali sonny. Hope to be otw with you soon

Sonny, you are getting to be quite the photog man. Thanks for all the pics bro and sorry you couldn't make it up to Albion. obkook, are you using those Owner light circle hooks? I haven't had any problems since I switched to those. jim

obkook, are you using those Owner light circle hooks? I haven't had any problems since I switched to those. jim

No, I'm not. I'll look into them. Thanks.

Shicken pointed out to me that my hooks may have been a bit large for the tiny shiners we had that day, too. (3/0)

I think I just haven't figured out the halibut feel and timing yet.