I love this time of year!! Long sleeves come out. The trailer parking lot gets empty again. Water and skies clear up. Largemouth, stripers, and halibut go on eating binges. Sandbass are stacking up in the bays....LOVE IT!!!

Woke up this morning with Megadeth’s Rattlehead playing load and clear in my mind. I knew it was gonna be a good day. Got to Zuniga just before sunrise. 64 degrees. Water was clear. Tide was ripping. Grabbed a 1-1/4oz Jetty Worm(red/green) juiced it up good and threw it on the rocks. Got a tap, ignored it. Got a second tap, ignored it. Got a third tap and swung hard! Game on! Instant full bendo and 20lb test leaking off the reel. Slam the TM into reverse and start walking toward the net with folded over rod.
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Calico pushing 6lbs in the boat!!

Got a few more fish off the rocks, including a halibut that may have been legal but was promptly released, then about 30 minutes later, luck struck again...
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5lb sandbass in the boat!! Same lure.

I knew this was not normal, so I switched over to 1.5oz chartreuse Spinbomb to cover more water quicker, and for the next hour or two, I had a field day on the 2-4lb bass. All the while bonito are crashing bait and jumping out of the water all over the mouth of the bay. Having had a good run on the bass, I put down the bass gear and picked up the silly rod and for the next couple of hours I enjoyed harassing the bonito and cudas.
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2 words...Le git. The wind came out early and I wasn’t into dealing with it. I made a quick kelp drift of off PL, banged a couple more calicos, and went home early.

Bismillah