7/23 and 7/26 La Jolla- Jack & Queen

Thought I would share with with my Norcal friends

Squid spawn has been productive!
07/23
I got off work at 9am, pulled myself together around noon and headed down to the launch. As I arrived, I see some yakers landing with some added weight  Thought damn...another day late dollar short. Wind was picking up, around 10-15mph. Water looked choppy and nasty. F**K it, I'm going for it.
On the water by 1pm,
My temp read 68-71.
Green choppy water, mild current pulling north/east.
I had trouble making live squid at this time, but brought a bag o' fresh dead from the past weeks. Set up with dropper loop on 40# fluro, 8oz weight, size 6 ahi twist hook.
About 530pm I phoned a friend to give him an OTW report, I was literally in the process of telling him that there wasn't much going on in the afternoon when ZZZZZZ my rod loads up! (90ft of water)
No one else around me, I had the whole ocean to myself to
After some awesome runs I bring her up



07/26
Beautiful morning and the launch was PACKED.
Over the squid grounds by 0600.
warm water, out pulling current, incoming tide around 7am.
light swell and salad.
Making squid was easy, had a small bag of fresh dead just in case.

The squid grounds was a combination of the plastic navy, and about 15 private boaters. Plus a few coming and going. People yelling at each other (mostly pvt boaters) and threatening each other....I couldn't believe it how rude some of these idiots are.

Well, I was out to actually catch fish  not yell at people and deal with drama. So after I made a full bait tank (around 7am) I headed out a few hundred yards and drifted the tower to the point.
At around 0730 in 80-90ft, Hooked up to a GIANT sheepshead on live squid with 6/0 ahi twist via dropper loop. Never seen one this big before. She was bleeding like a stuck pig and full of air. Sea Lions wanted a piece of her bad. I wanted to let her go but seeing the condition it was in plus the damn dogs...figured I'd rather have her over for dinner than the feed the dogs.
At 0830 I see a nice mark on my FF in the upper water column, it suddenly B-lines down towards my squid at 85ft. Got slammed within seconds of seeing the mark. I couldnt believe I was watching the strike, I had a second or two prepare for it. Very cool experience. Headed in around 10am. the launch picked up and saw some people flip, I had to superman my way in. Totally worth it


Sheepshead weighed in at 25lbs on digital scale...no joke.
YT weighed in around 23lbs...
Awesome day.

That's it!  haha! Don't know what to say. Congrats! Nice fishin. Wow! Watched the strike?! Makes me want to move to la jolla.

Thumbs up! 

Whoa! Great report brother! And thanks.

That goat is HUGE!!!!!
Great report.

Nice fish and report too.

Damb, we were just down there 2 weekend ago. I tried getting a hold of Sea Samurai, but he never returned my e-mail or phone message .
Anyways congrats on the great fish and thanks for the SoCal report!!!

Wow, that's a humongous sheephead!  Never seen one that big before.  Congrats and thanks for the great report.

Rey

Real nice. Good report.

Damb, we were just down there 2 weekend ago. I tried getting a hold of Sea Samurai, but he never returned my e-mail or phone message .
Anyways congrats on the great fish and thanks for the SoCal report!!!

Probably busy getting ready for OR with Hobie.

That's a massive goat! Nice YT too.

That's a nice pair of fish!  Congrats Z!

Water temp 68-71..haha man I miss San Diego

Nice YTs, but I think I'm more impressed by that huge goat!

Thanks for sharing.

 ....WOW!!!!!....

Holy $#!T that goat is a monster. Look at that freakin' forehead!!! 25 effing lbs! That's nuts!
The YT's nice too but I can't believe that sheepshead.
WOW! I bet you never thought you'd catch a goat that was more impressive than a nice YT.

ruben

I hate to torpedo myself but you should enter that in the "Hawg of the Month" contest on fishwithjd.com

http://www.fishwithjd.com/category/photos-video/hawg-of-the-month-contest-photos-video/


ruben