I fished the home court today (Saturday) as I had to leave for a family function by noon.

I found the conditions nicest off the point, clean water and lots of bait. I had a tank full of chovies from the bait receiver, but never used them. Instead I made bait easily from the giant swirling boiling schools of sardines and 6-7" greenback macks that at times were churning the water all around my Kayak. Neat.

About 8:30 am I had just pinned a fresh deano on a 1/0 owner ringed circle hook and put him down about 40' on a dropper. Just as I started trolling again (my other rod had a fly-lined mac) the deep deano was blasted. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Since I have farmed a few lately I waited and waited, then put the reel in gear. It came tight and had the solid, HARD pressure we like to feel, and ker-splash, ker-plash, out of the water comes a nice thresher, running hard.

Yak spins around and starts moving, fights on!
More jumps, and I'm stoked thinking finally I'm really on a good one, and in my own bakyard to boot!

Mr T heads for the kelp, i put just a little more pressure on, he starts turning, yeah! Then it happened. Again. POP!

After dejectedly bringing in the line, I saw that it was all my fault, a bad knot on the 30# seagar flourocarbon. that stuff can be hard to tie!

I got slammed again about a half hour later, bait was slashed and mangled, might have been a dog. Powered into the harbor and gave my bait to yanni, dropped a deano on the bottom and trolled to my take-out point for one short halibut and a really badly raked bait.

I got to meet some more guys who post here, and help rescue a new yakker, hopefully "flipper" won't let todays' big swell and wet experience discourage him.

Second Thresher I have farmed in the past few weeks.

But a nice morning that could easily have been very memorable.

Quietman
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