July 1, Croakerama!
 

Yesterday I went out all by myself, looking for fish to put some iodine and fish oil in my family's diet! I was on the water from 6.30 am till around 5.15 pm! Almost 11 hours. The usual places were all hitting hard yesterday. I got a legal sandy trolling out(released) , then proceeded to really play with the fishies. 6 short halibut, a fat gopher bass(on the left in the pic), and two decent spotties, also in the pic! In the process, I was bitten off, broken off, had halis release themselves at the yak! It was pretty much non-stop action! Lost fish in the kelp. Etc. Then about four pm I headed for the croaker hole with my dead dines. I'd gotten kelp in the intake tube! Dropped some cut dine down and bang , very large croaker, probably over 3 lbs. And the yellowfin croaker can really fight. I think they outfight bass. These boys were pulling me around!. I knew I could get ten, that's the limit. So that's what I did! There are nine in my pic because one was hiding in my yak, he's the same general size as the rest! The smallest was about 14 inches! I took the pic with the fish on my yak so I could show the size! The fish and dive is 36 inches wide. Figure it out! :) Steamed Yellowfin with ginger, soy sauce, and green onions, served over white rice! Asian fish dinner tonight! Last night was gopher bass and spotties, fried! Enjoy the pic. Piranha out! :brews 8)

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