man, i'm beat. took dad, my brother and my nephew out to the the grady white derby. richie took third place with an 8 pound ling. i nailed a 6 pound cab and we took 3/4 limits of rockfish on live bait. actually, they used live bait and used iron. i pretty much kept pace with them. hey, iron works!
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this, and a couple of grady shirts, has always been the father's day present from me and my brother.
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that damned nephew of mine is the luckiest kid i've ever met. he did the same thing last year, sticking a nice ling when the rest of us were pulling up nothing but rock fish.
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i saw that fish come up and thought it might be a money fish. i am so rusty with a gaff that i just went for a body shot. didn't want to take a chance on a head shot after not holding a gaff for 8 months.
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funny, this fish sort of reminds me of my brother's ex-wife!
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here's bobby.
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and frank.
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nice to be on the water, but damn was it expensive. gas for the truck was $52, gas for the boat was $186. we ran all the way from santa cruz to pigeon point. i figured out that the border from the ano nuevo reserve was inside the 122.21 line. that leaves alot of water to still fish. it's just a long #### run.
anyway, that's it. my first fishing report for the year. the next report will be coming off the royal polaris.