Bryon- I added a little fill light and cropped it, plus it's compressed a ton from it's original size....maybe that's what looks funny to you.

Fish came on an Ace-Hi 120 down , somewhere north of PnP. We fished Useless bay all morning before heading over to the west side right before the tide change. Tons of bait in useless, and sharks, no biters milling around.
We fished away from the crowds the whole day (more boats at PnP than I have ever seen) and from the radio chatter it seemed slow for most which matches our day.

left the dock at 330am saturday, back1:30pm. two takedowns in the first 30 min of fishing then nothing... coached little leaguers until 6(lost twice), then back on the water from 6-dark. around 930 i finally got a fish to pop the clip. 45' on a green hootchie...
today i coached from 8-10(lost once), left the dock at 12, back at 4. 7 fer 11... atleast we were able to do something right today.

Ryley that is an awesome photo. Skilled photography and editing is a talent and youve got it dialed. The quarry is more than worthy of it in this case.

I need to learn some of that stuff

D3 I look forward to reading your posts when I see youve posted lately. Good story telling man, entertainment abound.

Thanks for the invite Bro.... Awesome fish Gunnar. Looks like we know what picture was the one really really good one we were all talking about.

JD

WTG Brent!
Awesome job, Seastrike! Congrats!

WTG Ryley!
wow... just a perfect summer P.S. nookie!

We ended up going 0-1, losing what looked like a teener near the boat. Never got a good enough look at it to see if it had that extra special fin, so I've just been assuming that it did. Fish came on a 6" Tomic plug right at tide change. Serious heartbreak when we lost it. Also went 4 for 4 on dogfish and a flounder.

KILLER fish Gunnar & Ryley!

My 2c on the "photoshopped" feel, which I understand, is the foreshortening caused by the wide-angle lens used in that picture. It's a terrific lens so it doesn't feel super fish-eye, but IMO that's the #1 reason for the feeling you get Brian.

Ya, like I said, I wasn't saying it was, (I got the report early), just looked off to my eye and wondered why, now I know.

Great fish. Back out later in the week to try to get mine.

BigLing BigLing, whatcha gonna do... whatcha gonna do when when I ling for you!!!

Decided to go out again tonight... I'll put up pics tomorrow of the monsters i'll be throwing in the boat. Below is my report from the weekend!

Hope you all put some fish in the boat and meat in the fridge this weekend. BigLing was back in action putting mighty kings in the boat like Tiger puts X's in his black book.

So here is the deal as promised I delivered, but not with any monsters...

Friday Night: 7pm to 9pm

Fished Area 9 hard for two hours Friday night. Went one for two. The tides we less than spectacular, trying to fish the bait trapped in a massive rip, but it was not the best of times (nor was it the worst of times) I have had this past week. The keeper was average for the area, 14lbs. It was clear the bite had slowed; dropping from six hits on Tuesday to only two... One in the boat called it a night and went home to get ready for Saturday.


Saturday Morning: 5am to 9:30am

Hit the water early on Saturday... Moving to North Area 10. The morning started off slow with no hits until 6:45 a little later than normal. First hit landed a 16.5 lber, but the high fin earner him freedom. Second real release came at 8:15 resulting in a 11lb keeper. Not seeing any other nets, but only about five boats around. Circling back yielded three more keepers, 9lber, another 11lber, and the big fish 13lbs. Fish were on the smaller side and bite still seemed slow until later. My buddy and I were happy to be limited by and off the water by 10:30am. Much hotter action than previous evening at our spot in Area 9. We decided to try again at Point NP on Sunday and roll the dice in Area 9.


Sunday Morning: 5am to 8am

Bull$hit, Bull$hit, Bull$hit !!! Started at P'NP at 5am not a single hit. Moved at 6:30 and at 7:30 got hooked on a really nice hog. Unfortunately threw the hook and that was that. Ran one more pass fishing hard with 70' and 90' covered, but no second chance. Saw two nets come out and probably could have kept trying and switch over setups. In the name of mental sanity we called it at 8am and headed home empty handed.

Summary: Bite has cooled in Area 9 (see thread title from when I posted days ago). All seems slow in general likely due to the moon phase (tides for you home gammers) and misalignment with twilights. Area 10 a little more productive, but few quality fish. Going to move to some fall back spots later this week, but fishing will remain so-so through mid week at the least. Hope some one got the big one...

Fish on,

BigLing (the myth man, the ledend, the linger)

When you were young
and you fished a barbed hook
You used to say live and let live
you know you Ling
you know you Ling
you know you Ling
But if this ever changin sea
in which we ling in
Makes you give in and cry
Say ling and let die
Ling and let die

Midget sh!t. . . cut and paste a report to another thread and still no pics to back up the tale. . .. . . . .. . . . .

I wanna see pics of D3's 7 for 11 in the middle of the day myself.

Ohh... KK got a small one at the tide change with me at President's. It was pretty rough Saturday afternoon... especially for a sled. It looked like the wind was going to lay down at around 7 pm... but then it kicked right back up again.

We also snagged a dogfish in the tail with a hoochie... which is a first for me.

BigLing BigLing, whatcha gonna do... whatcha gonna do when when I ling for you!!!

Pictures are on their way... in the mean time please remain calm, however, it is clear the anticipation my be getting to some of you.

Hope the reports help. Going out tonight need to break in my new medium action loomis!

Fish on,

BigLing (the myth man, the ledend, the linger)

When you were young
and you fished a barbed hook
You used to say live and let live
you know you Ling
you know you Ling
you know you Ling
But if this ever changin sea
in which we ling in
Makes you give in and cry
Say ling and let die
Ling and let die

Can't wait to see the ledendary pics.

Fish on...

Todd

Haven't been reading the board much of late.. however... wtf??

"BigLing was back in action putting mighty kings in the boat like Tiger puts X's in his black book."

Is Big stick back?

I thought it was the swede but this guys grammar is much too good.

'Ling is neither Stick or that dweebus Swede. That you can be sure of...

My friend Luke with the damage.

nice fatties there Dave! Way to put the hammer to them.

Awesome! You are definitely doin' better than most!

Nice LIneup Dave, you found all of them in one spot yesterday