Old #7 pops his spear cherry

Made a plan to extend my birthday fun by diving on Sunday AM, and then meeting family and friends at beach after for chilling, fish fry, and kiddy play time on the kayaks. 

Met up with Dennis Old #7, Jim baitman, Natahan sharkait, e2g and some of nathan's college gymnast buddies at first light and paddled out to an area where I was confident I could find some Lings and rockies for the fryer.

Blasted the first three legal Lings I saw (males between 24 and 27 inches) and popped a decent blue as well.

Current was pretty strong and it was a little too deep for Dennis so we moved in closer to another area I really like.

Found a few blues chilling on top of a boulder and called Dennis over and he dropped down and nailed one! First blood baby!!

 

Then he proceeded to blast a few more while I scouted for a holed up Ling for him. Found one in the same crack where I got this nice 35 incher in 2014:

http://doty.norcalkayakanglers.com/catches/1336

Shoved my gun in the crack next to it and called Nathan over for his help to light it up for Dennis so I could film the action...course by the time we got ready to go the Ling had left.   

I took one more look to make sure it wasn't in there hiding, it wasn't, and shot back up frustrated...and smacked my head HARD into the underside of the overhung booulder. 

Could see I was bleeding but didn't hurt that bad so kept diving. 

Moved in closer to launch and found a BIG cab head in a very tight hole...thought about calling Dennis over to shoot it but the hole was awkward and the cab twitched so I shot it between the eyes. 

Tuned out to be a royal PITA extracting the cab from the narrow hole and it took borrowing Dennis' gun for a second solid shot before I was able to reach my arm in up to the elbow get a finger in the eye socket and wiggle the head out far enough to where I could get my hand in the mouth and wrench it out.

Looked huge underwater but "only" taped out to 23 inches.    Still my biggest so far this year.

http://doty.norcalkayakanglers.com/catches/1548

Jumped back up on yak and cleaned fish real quick while Dennis got into harvest mode and popped several more decent rockies!! Nice job bro!!

Back at beach we met up with all the families and some friends including Russ DesertDiver and Chaeki.

I fileted the three Lings for fried nuggets, did a steaked cabbie that I had brought down, and also served up some sheephead sashimi.

Dennis did chicken thighs and sausages and there was plenty of food and drink for all.

The kids played on the sand, and in the waves and on the yaks and a great time was had by all.

 

Here is a mini vid and a bunch o pics including some more food porn from back at the house.



 

Sincerely,

Jim

Mo pics.

 

Last ones.

 

Sincerely,

Jim

it was good seeing yall, wish we could of stayed longer, but wife wasnt feeling good.  that cut looks pretty bad, hope you get that taken care of.

it was good seeing yall, wish we could of stayed longer, but wife wasnt feeling good.  that cut looks pretty bad, hope you get that taken care of.

It was great seeing you too dude and I was nummed when I saw you driving away so soon! 

But yeah when wife needs to go, it's smart to go! 

My wife actually padled out TWICE on the kayaks sunday with two different friends?!???? Maybe she is finally coming around??? 

I went to urgent care yesterday to get the cut checked...no need for stitches and no concussion...

Diagnosis was "hard head, lucky to have a westuit hood on, big dummy-itis".

 

 

Sincerely,

Jim

yeah my son was sad to go, he would of slept on the beach if he could.  definetely will try again for the next one.  maybe without the wife and daughter, lol

You just open the pandoras box lol...Nice one fellas!

Super Glue will take care of that wound. 
Great job Dennis.
Great job Jim for hooking him up!

That's awesome, nice work Dennis!

I was there Jim. Talked to Chaeki before go in, and came back after Chaeki. Didn't see you.  Very nice video you have. I took your advice and put the Gopro on head strap. wear it inside the hood. Made some videos. But the head strap buckle start to hurt my head. And the mask was leaking like hell. Do you have similar problem? How do you fix it? How do you operate the Gopro when its over your head and you can't see it?

First thing, glad to hear your hard head is OK.  Enjoyable day with fun stories of Dennis hunting down and shootn' rockfish, WTG BRO! Food,food, food, my favorite was the sheep sashsimi.  Nathan and college buddies enjoying the "warm water",   Watchn' the kids and families take the kayaks on some mini adventures reminds me of how fast our kids grow up.  A Great time and hated to leave before sunset, as it was only made it Sac before I called kids to crash at their house for the night.  O yeah, more WAF points for bring back the table 

Strong work guys!  Congrats on your spearing your first fish, Old #7!  Heal fast BigJim! 

Nice work buddies! That "Old" #7 ain't too old yet though huh?

Happy belated Bday BigJim! Looks like an awesome time!

Glad you have a "hard head"    Thanks for sharing the good time Jim.

Cograts on the great trip and a special congrats to Old N0. 7!!! I need to make the time to go down there for some spearing.