Late Tomales bay action 9-27

Rewarded today for staying on the water when the fishing was slow. Catching sardines was spotty at first but then in the afternoon they just jumped on the sabiki. A great crew today with Kiel, Redyak, William102, sharky, Brian, Renegade2, Holy Toledo and myself. A pulverized bait at around 1:30pm spiced it up a bit and gave me that last needed shot to stay and fish. Then a smashed sardine that was being taken very fast toward lawsons. Whatever it was bent the treble hook straight and popped off. That was exciting. Finaly at 4pm I struck some hali gold on what was to be the last drift of the day. On the 20ft line other side of Hog. 2oz weight fished carolina stlye with a 4ft leader with a stinger. This girl was hungry and took the whole rig down 8 inch sardine and all. Faith restored in Tomales. Its been a long dry spell for me there.

Nice one Craig. From the pictures the weather looked sweet out there today. Speaking of pictures...is that "younger man" in picture  #3 mocking you...

WTG Craig! Here's a couple pics from today. jim

Nice one Craig. From the pictures the weather looked sweet out there today. Speaking of pictures...is that "younger man" in picture  #3 mocking you...

 No Allen. Hes crapping himself beacuse I stole his upgrade Buwahhahhhahaa I LOVE THAT KID!

WTG Craig,  Big Congrats on you catched!!!! I have about 5 big takedown at Pelican Cove. 2 is a Leopard Shark,  the other one snap my line before trying to net it!! but I got the other one.  

I dont know what the F@#%K the rest of the bites was? but I wanna go back there again soon!!!!!




Kiel

Nice halibut Craig - Congrats and way to stick it out!  Nice sharks guys!

Nice! Sorry I missed out. Billy's B-day party went a little later than expected last night.

Great photo's from all. Way to go craig and stick it out to nab a nice hali. Good to see a large group of NCKA'ers hitting the water. Good thing i got a bigger net !
Good weather, good friends,  good time.
William_102

I need some water therapy soon!  Congrat on the catches and thanks for the reports & pictures guys.

NICE...i had that sneaking suspicion that my getting off the water would start the bite.

ah well, two more weeks and i can probably actually get a FULL day

Nice job fellas. Its nice when the skunks off . I'll have to get out there soon. Question: I've never kept or ate leopard shark before.  How is it?

Great looking halibut Craig. Way to stick it out and be rewarded for your efforts. Good job with the sharks guys. Looks like it was a great day out there with even better company.

Nice job fellas. Its nice when the skunks off . I'll have to get out there soon. Question: I've never kept or ate leopard shark before.  How is it?

I usually cooked with coconut milk with curry paste and turns out really good.



Kiel

Cooked and in coconut milk and curry paste. MAN that sounds delicious.

not sure if i want to know what patrick was doing in that second picture