Sigh...

[FRED driver]

Met a friend at the bridge with the yak but he offered to let me try out his boat with him, so i transferred all the gear over and launched. Great weather and great fishing. Almost all 18+, except this one, which I brought to the boat but my friend was unable to land...any guesses on the length?

We caught probably 40 between the 3 of us.

http://youtu.be/LocWugtT5-w

[frettr00]

Met a friend at the bridge with the yak but he offered to let me try out his boat with him, so i transferred all the gear over and launched. Great weather and great fishing. Almost all 18+, except this one, which I brought to the boat but my friend was unable to land...any guesses on the length?

We caught probably 40 between the 3 of us.

http://youtu.be/LocWugtT5-w

I'd put that fish at 30-35".

[Shady]

Wow! nice one

[FRED driver]

My guess is 36-40...I've landed a few 30s this season and this was an entirely different class of fish

[scorpioreno]

Sounds like a good day any way. Great report. It's inspiring

[ronaultmtd]

It was definately one you want to catch, take pictures of and (if not in season), release. Hard to measure a fighting fish- needed a good net for that fish- the one that got away, the one that broke your tackle, etc. is what keeps us coming back

[MetroMan]

Oh man, that was a nice one. I'd second your 36-40" estimate

[ictalurus]

That was a nice one. I say it counts: it was captured on video, witnessed in person by two other people, and your buddy got his hand on the leader...

[FRED driver]

That was a nice one. I say it counts: it was captured on video, witnessed in person by two other people, and your buddy got his hand on the leader...

That's what I tell myself--I went for the humane boat side release =)

[Cal]

Wow, what a hog! Nice fish count too.
I went out to the BB on saturday and got the skunk, jigged the pilings , platforms and rockpiles with bkd's, then trolled the whole span of bridge with two manns stretch 15's with not a bite. Whole bay was a sheet of glass, warm, great day on the water.

[FRED driver]

Fish are deep (45+) and highly localized now; if you find one you will find many..went out with a buddy in the rain for about an hour this morning and we both picked up 26" fish before coming back

[surfdog]

nice fish!

[DOGFISH]

Hey nice fish. You had it to the leader, so its a catch. Thats fishing, just shake it off. CPR

[Cal]

Sigh, I guess I have to wait till I can manage a fish finder. Blindly stumbling on the pockets of deep water fish seems like a super-long shot.