Joined: 25 May 2009 Posts: 615 Location: somewhere on 130 miles of beach
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:58 pm Post subject: PINS 10/16
Some months for fishing are great, some are better, and some are just downright "Da Bomb."
This month for me is NONE OF THE ABOVE, and yet, ALL OF THE ABOVE! October, October, October....a surf fisherman's dream....errr, or NOT...thank you so much La Nina, the drought, record heat waves, the lack of a new DIDO album, Red Tide, Brown Tide, Purple Tide, crackheads chasing me in traffic to wash my windshield even though I said no, dead fish on the beach, dead fish on the beach, dead fish ON THE BEACH...can we agree that a person could pretty much take their pick? It's been a rough month. Spared last year, not so spared this year. It's here. And it's nasty. And personally, I've been waiting for this month since last fall...so there's no way for me to NOT fish it....and since I got home a few days back I've been dying to hit the sand for a hardcore 4 day trip. And there's no way I'm doing that if I have to spend all night coughing and tossing and turning thanks to 100 million dead trashfish all over the beach and scum water spray blowing into my tent cot. Not to mention the difficulties of wearing a clothespin over my nose all day. Uncool. So after spending the last 4 days running errands, fixing gear, and in general being a miserable SOB, I awoke this morning knowing that somehow, someway, I would go to PINS today. After waking up and taking an hour to watch an episode of the "Sopranos," I was motivated enough after seeing Ralphie get whacked to load the truck up and get ready for a BTB trip. Roll OUT!
Upon hitting the park, my peeps at the checkgate were honestly like....."Colin, you're seriously going down the beach???" Naturally, at this point manly pride dictated I NOT come back soon and man up and stay down for a bit....
The stench was RI-DONK-U-LOUS. I can be quoted on that. Weber Road slang.
Before, I hated the Taliban. NOW...I give the thumbs down on this retarded every other year event.
My old camera crapped out and won't come back to life, so this new camera allows me to take some wild shots.........
Going back to the days of woodens ships, iron men, and wimps walk the plank!!!
The water was RANK. Nasty and brown....
Poor Jackfish....another one bites the dust....
Before I knew it, I was out there past the "STANK ZONE"....AND 30-odd Jacks were swimming underneath the yak! Hookup!
Double hookup, got one in the boat still flopping and another one on the line!
Blood in the boat, Re-Christened!
And finally after making it to the crappy close rig....I got a hookup but lost the fish due to almost being sunk by a rogue wave...and a obligatory turtle showed up to act retarded, investigate me, and see if there was anything around worth biting.
It was seriously starting to get late, and I really had only enough time to drift some baits and bottom fish a little bit....no takers. After a quick blowup on a topwater, whatever it was spit the hook and it was time to get back to the "STANK ZONE" once again. This is where things got weird....
Making my way back to the beach the strangest thing happened. I heard and then saw about 12 dolphins 20 feet of the starboard bow...and before I knew it I was surrounded. LITERALLY. At a minimum of 100 dolphins were EVERYWHERE and at one point I had at least 30 or more surrounding my yak and causing me to freak. Little death squads of 5 and 6 of them would come 2 feet from the yak and investigate...not cool....ever since I was a kid I have not appreciated those things...and Flipper was not a friendly fish he was evil....
The wildest thing about the whole situation, is that as I paddled for dear life for all I was worth, I quite literally had an "escort" of several hundred of those freaking things. Talk about raising more questions than have been answered. I'm not sure if they were pushing bait into the red tide zone...or feeding on the fish that were dying or immobile in said zone, but I know this much for SURE. They weren't at ALL venturing into the red tide line. Watch this bottom read and check out how many immobile/dead/dying fish lay right AT the red tide line. Not in the surf zone but out in deeper water where the red tide met the blue water...btw never mind the false depth reading on the screen bottom...
I finally made it in, in one piece.
Pimp!
After taking 5000 pictures of three fish because I had nothing else to do, it was time to go home. And get away from the cough-a-thon. It wasn't a wasted day anyways, but it's too bad these three primo shark baits won't be getting soaked anytime soon. But until this mess goes away, overnighters are probably not happening. But I'm glad to have witnessed such group behavior with those dolphins, but my original question still remains unanswered. Are certain fish able to detect the bacterium causing red tide and react accordingly by roaming deeper? Were the dolphins taking advantage of the kill zone to feed and also push bait into the kill zone? Why so many in one particular area? And since the dead/dying fish were out on the fringe edge of the red tide, is that area the most toxic? So many questions arise the more I fish, and I know one thing. The answers surely won't come from sitting on the couch. Until next time, over and out.
-colin _________________ Protect Padre at all costs for future generations to use and enjoy and never forget our freedoms aren't free.
Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 602 Location: San Antonio
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 12:10 am Post subject:
Hardcore.....Brave the stench of the dead fish,the fumes of red tide and the brown water of the surf...You are part fish,water and human..bro
Great read as usual.....
Buddha...... _________________ It's all about the family.....
Joined: 24 Sep 2011 Posts: 90 Location: San Antonio
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:16 am Post subject:
That was some good narration.....you should do children's books. Lol
Seriously, good stuff!
Question: Is that tethered balloon some sort of an anchor? I'm not a yakker.
Joined: 25 May 2009 Posts: 615 Location: somewhere on 130 miles of beach
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 3:44 pm Post subject:
Savageman wrote:
That was some good narration.....you should do children's books. Lol
Seriously, good stuff!
Question: Is that tethered balloon some sort of an anchor? I'm not a yakker.
That ball is attached to a quick release clip for unattaching from the anchor rode in the event of a large fish hookup. The ball provides a means to return to the scene later on and retrieve the anchor and line. I use a larger size float ball because it actually floats the anchor and the line in the event that it goes overboard. Which judging by my track record, is likely to continue. _________________ Protect Padre at all costs for future generations to use and enjoy and never forget our freedoms aren't free.
Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227 Location: San Antonio TX
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:37 pm Post subject:
i saw you pulling into Roys when we were coming off island time Sunday. figured you were gonna give them hell. I lasted all of 5 minutes with the red tide, turned around and hit the hwy. Red tide was just about non existent in PA. TFTR!
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