Recent content by FerrousTortoise

The only fish I saw yesterday were the ones that the seal was chasing around me. I watched 3 fish almost beach them selves as tone swam behind me and the others tried to escape the seal up the beach.

Of the last 4 summers I have been up that way for Labor Day I think 2024 was the only one it was open.

Yeah, it was closed when I drove by Labor Day weekend.

The fish continued to tease us from the beach, slightly too far to reach. Especially that school of ~10 porpoising fish as we were leaving.

in the last 2 days I think I have seen more fish stolen by the harbor seals than I have seen in my last 20 years of fishing from the beach. You would think after 5 or 6 fish they would be full for a little bit. Watched one steal 3 fish in a row. It would just drop the fish it had in its mouth...

I had about 30 minutes to fish this morning. Hooked and lost a really nice fish. It looked to be a big coho as it swam away in the mouth of a nearby seal. I guess you have to pay your dues to the tax man every now and then.

I got my yearly trip to fish some tropical water back home. I didn’t get as much time as I would have hoped to fish as I got sick a couple days into the trip, but got the 7 and 10yo setup to catch what they could catch. The highlight for them was catching halalu (juvenile big eye scad). It...

Same thing for me. I was actually talking to @Kfish about this the other day. I have mostly seen jumping fish way outside, and lots of them. Sometimes there will be a lot of jumping fish just outside of casting range with boats catching and people on shore not. The few times I have seen fish...

My kids have lost faith in my ability to catch fish. They wanted salmon for dinner and I told them we needed to catch it today. My son said, “well that won’t happen”. And he wasn’t wrong as I lost 2 more today and am like 0 for my last 10 or so. At least my daughter also lost one, so I am...

Watched a boat try to take out a bunch of kayakers and paddle boarders this morning. Looked like they had the attitude that everyone needs to move out of their way. They made a couple passes through the group, one time getting mad because their line caught a paddle boarder they almost hit...

I have an ugly stick UL rod with a Pfluger spinning reel filled with 2lb test that is the go to for the kids at the lake. Growing up in Hawaii I always had a UL ugly stick with 2 or 4lb test. My dad still has 2 UL fiberglass rods he made with Fenwick blanks a long time ago. Those rods are...

My dad caught a couple nice ones on the crocodile and lost a couple big ones on the popper. For all of the 15lb maxima fans out there, I can tell you it does not like the coral heads 😂. I lost a few crocodiles to big fish and the reef.

In Mingo and Mems backyard.