Well this evening surf fishing trip was nothing short of phenominal!
Hit Carpinteria state beach today after work from 5:00 till 8:00pm, Things started out a little slow till about 6:00 when I tried a different type of retrieve with my grub, instead of my normal chuck and wind I went to a ultra slow presentation, I was turning the handle on my sedona 2000 just slow enough to keep my line tight as it rolled around in the surf, and from there on out it got stupid! Before I knew it had caught and released a dozen perch some of them real nice! Then I get hammered and its starts smoking the 6lb off my reel, after 5 minutes of running up and down the beach in comes a 3ft shovel nose shark! (fun stuff) then I do another dozen perch then I hook up big time again! This time he breaks my hook off after 10min and about 50yds of tugowar! Then as the sun stars to set things kinda slow down but Im still picking at them when my grub feels like it got snagged about 12-15ft out, then it starts going side ways, now what do I have?? This things heavy and swimming right at me! I side step it and a 23in Halibut goes swimming by! That one was little tricky to land but after 5min of chasing it around I got him! My second ever legal halibut from the surf! After himhawing around for a minute or so I decide to let him go!
Final count: 34 barred surf perch with (11) going 1-2lbs! A 23in halibut and the shovel nose.
Conditions were much improved from the last time I fished this beach,this evening I had moderate surf, but not too bad, water color was decent, and the weeds were not too bad either..
All fish were caught on hammer hooked motoroil/redflake BigHammer perch grubs fished on a carolina rig
On a Shimano CPS76M spinning rod and Sedona 2000 reel, with 6lb main line and a 6lb flouro leader..Larry