SM surf report 4-11 - California Fishing

Sharkbait · 04-12-2004, 09:19 AM

My friend jerry(jerryg24) and I hit the beach in the afternoon and fishing was steady. Both of us had about 12 barred perch each. His biggest being 13.5'' and mine was 12''. I managed a 14'' corbina on the grub too. Both of lost a couple halibut in the surf. His broke the line and mine just came unbottoned. Late in the evening we get a big double hook up and fight them for about 30 minutes. Turned out to be a couple of big shovelnose. Over all fishing was good with a steady bite on a varity of good sized fish.
Anthony

Wahoo! · 04-12-2004, 10:19 AM

Good job out there! Those shovelnose must have been a lot of fun on the light tackle! Thanks for the report.

DementedFish · 04-12-2004, 05:06 PM

Yea shovelnose are always fun to fight on light tackle. I especially like to fight them with light line.

Sharkbait · 04-12-2004, 06:33 PM

They are fun to catch on light tackle. I've caught lots from the surf before, mostly on sand crabs. It took a long time to bring it in, too long in my opinion even for a 45 incher. At first I was thinking it could be a big halibut but after awhile I knew what it was and considered just breaking the line. I lost a lot of good fishing time because of it and I wasn't after sharks and rays.
Anthony

Hey Wahoo check out this pic. Talk about fun on light tackle

DementedFish · 04-12-2004, 07:35 PM

Dude! Thats a Koi!! I didnt know people fished for those lol.

Sharkbait · 04-12-2004, 09:14 PM

I was fishing for bass at a local lake last month when I caught it. Had a black plastic worm out there was slowly working it when I felt a tap, tap, thump, and when I set the hook the koi almost spooled me on the first run. I was chasing it up and down the shoreline. Most of the time I was thinking I finally had my 15 pound bass. After 20 minutes and no jump I started to think Carp. I was definitly surprised to see a koi. That was a good day including 7 bass all over 3lbs.
Anthony

DementedFish · 04-12-2004, 09:22 PM

That's very interesting sharkbait, I've never heard of anyone catching a koi b4. Those members of the goldfish family sure put up a fight.

trout guy · 04-12-2004, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by DementedFish

That's very interesting sharkbait, I've never heard of anyone catching a koi b4. Those members of the goldfish family sure put up a fight.

go out to greer park lake in hb theres some koi in there used to have a very good population. o yea theres a pretty nice red and white one swiming out at lnl. next time you go ask rick he has some pics of it somewere.

thats a big a$$ koi sharkbait congrats on the catch, biggest one ive seen caught so far.

Wahoo! · 04-13-2004, 07:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Sharkbait

I was fishing for bass at a local lake last month when I caught it. Had a black plastic worm out there was slowly working it when I felt a tap, tap, thump, and when I set the hook the koi almost spooled me on the first run. I was chasing it up and down the shoreline. Most of the time I was thinking I finally had my 15 pound bass. After 20 minutes and no jump I started to think Carp. I was definitly surprised to see a koi. That was a good day including 7 bass all over 3lbs.
Anthony

Nice fish Anthony! Sounds like that was a great day fishing for you with that Koi and 7 bass over 3 pounds! Man, the people at the park must have thought you were crazy running up and down the shoreline!