Saturday:
I was sitting at work all day thinking "man, i need to catch a fish today." When i got off work at 6 i rounded up my gear and hit the beach. It was a high slack tide so it was very interesting crossing the slough. It was a slow pick on the hallibut. I got one right away that was a bout 19in on a three inch seawolf bighammer then nothing for a bit. I got another that was probabally legal but i farmed it in the surf. After catching one last short hallibut i decided to work my way back to my car. All of a sudden i got hit hard, this time on the pepper trout 3inch hammer. I thought i was stuck on the bottom for a second. Then i felt a head shake. The fish started to move slowly at first, pulling drag at a slow steady rate. I could tell it was big. Then this fish deided to take off. I couldnt even slow it down with my 6lb setup. A few weeks ago i had a simmilar experience, the fish behaved the same and durring this first run it broke me off. This fish felt a little smaller so i was hoping to at least get a look at it. After about a half hour of fighting this fish i saw it. It was (to my complete surprise) a black sea bass. MNy eyes just about fell out of my head. Ive never caught one before but this was the last place i expected too. I was able to get this fish in and measure it before i let it go, Length was 35inches and this fat fish had a 26inch girth so by the lxgxg/800 this fish weighd 29.5lbs. It felt about that if not heavier, i had such an addrenaline rush that i couldnt even fish anymore. I just let that beautiful fush go and walked back to my car. I was really glad that after that battle the fish took off like a flash, perfect end to a great day at the beach. My only dissapointment was that i didnt have a camera, oh well.
Sunday:
I got off work today at 5 and went back to the beach. Its just so easy and convinient to go down there for a few hours i couldnt resist after yestarday. I had a much better pick on the hallibut today. I got 3 shorts on the 3 inch pepper trout and then had to switch to prizm shad because i ran out of pepper trout. It didnt seem to make a difference. I hooked up shortly after the witch with a nice fish. It was a 23 inch fat hallibut. I was planning on keeping a hallibut if i caught one so this was coming home. I kept fishing, mostly because there was alot of daylight left. I worked back towarsd my car. I hooked up on another fish. This one took off, didnt feel like a hallibut. 10 minutes later i landed a 29 inch white seabass. Completely amazed and full of addrenaline i decided to end the day on a high note. I got home only to find that My digital camera is out of comission:( . I took some pictures on regular film though. Needless to say im going to head back there after work tomarow. Its been an amazing few days, maybe i can get one more.