PC or Depoe Bay anyone?

wish i could by my checklist doesn't have enough checkmarks this week. Hoping to fill some of those blank spaces soon though (just the last two fail me).

Anyone coming out, I'm the one with the Orange Honda Element and the green Hobie Outback.

That's a tough rig to miss heading down the road.   

Got to PC @ 730, on water @ 8
Shimano Cardiff shit the bed, something wrong with drag.  Luckily, brought my steelhead setup, Shimano Symmetre on a Shimano rod.
Hooked two underlings, got one all the way in the boat for a pic.  Next hookup was a black rock, about 100 yards south of buoy.  Seals eyeballing me.  Hooked up a fat cabbie a few minutes later.  Dory passes by, reel starts screaming.  Fight fish for about two minutes.  Get it to boat, big ass ling.  Too big for the net.  Got use the gaff.  Gaffer through top lip, and dragged into boat.  Fish shakes head, hook is out.  Slips off of gaff.  Punches me in nuts, and flips me off as it hops out of the boat.  Fish was big.  At least 3/4 the length of my leg.  Need better plan/ net next time.  Move to west face of haystack, hook into another fat cab.  Shortly thereafter, bring up another black - came up w/ barotrauma.  Hook up another cabbie, 15.5".  Lucky bastard.  Last fish of the day, black NW on beach side of haystack.

The cabs and the lings were all on 3 oz. Jigs with blue/clear swimbait bodies, blacks were on red/yellow/tinsel shrimp flies. 

If you replace "fish" with "Craigslist hooker", that story TOTALLY sums up last night for me. 

Sounds like a fun day.  Great write up, too. 

Get it to boat, big ass ling.  Too big for the net.  Got use the gaff.  Gaffer through top lip, and dragged into boat.  Fish shakes head, hook is out.  Slips off of gaff.  Punches me in nuts, and flips me off as it hops out of the boat.  Fish was big.  At least 3/4 the length of my leg.  Need better plan/ net next time. 

Come on ya Nancy Boy!  Just lip those lings!!!  If yer not man enough for that, slip your hand in it's gills.  Sheesh!   

If you replace "fish" with "Craigslist hooker", that story TOTALLY sums up last night for me. 

That's just Naaaaaaaaaassssssssty....

Got to PC @ 730, on water @ 8
Shimano Cardiff shit the bed, something wrong with drag.  Luckily, brought my steelhead setup, Shimano Symmetre on a Shimano rod.
Hooked two underlings, got one all the way in the boat for a pic.  Next hookup was a black rock, about 100 yards south of buoy.  Seals eyeballing me.  Hooked up a fat cabbie a few minutes later.  Dory passes by, reel starts screaming.  Fight Craigslist Hooker for about two minutes.  Get it to boat, big ass ling.  Too big for the net.  Got use the gaff.  Gaffer through top lip, and dragged into boat.  Craigslist Hooker shakes head, hook is out.  Slips off of gaff.  Punches me in nuts, and flips me off as it hops out of the boat.  Craigslist Hooker was big.  At least 3/4 the length of my leg.  Need better plan/ net next time.  Move to west face of haystack, hook into another fat cab.  Shortly thereafter, bring up another black - came up w/ barotrauma.  Hook up another cabbie, 15.5".  Lucky bastard.  Last Craigslist Hooker of the day, black NW on beach side of haystack.

The cabs and the lings were all on 3 oz. Jigs with blue/clear swimbait bodies, blacks were on red/yellow/tinsel shrimp flies.  

**Fixed

Damn Andy you had a helluva night!  Props!

The Jade gets what he pays for.  Best 40 bucks + dime bag I've ever spent.

The Jade gets what he pays for.  Best 40 bucks + dime bag I've ever spent.

Giggity giggity giggity

Craigslist Hooker was big.  At least 3/4 the length of my leg.

Them CL hookers must be nasty. Looks like you and Eddie Murphy might have similar interests! Now just look what you did to this harmless thread AJ... 

Z

I've found you get better service if you offer the H specially considering it's P-town.  But hey if the dime bag works score.

Giggity, indeed.

Awesome

Getting back to the man's report...

Was there any substantial currents out there today?

Getting back to the man's report...

Was there any substantial currents out there today?

Staying on topic

The southbound rip about 50 yards from the beach is fairly fast on the incoming tide - or at least it was yesterday.  I parked the yak to stow my gear, lined up with my car which was at the far north end.  It took me about two minutes to stow everything, and by then I was about perpendicular to the brewery.  Not a really crazy current, but I wouldn't want to swim in it.

very little drift around the buoy - I parked initially about 50 yards South of the buoy, and it took a good 20 minutes to drift another 100+ yards, but then I was moving quite a bit.  Closer into the haystack (w/in 300 yards) things moved a bit quicker.  On the west side of the Haystack, about 500 yards, there was a southbound rip - my goop job on my transducer puck is crap, and so the sounder wasn't working, but given that I had to let out about twice as much line, and the rocky that I pulled up came up with barotrauma, I'd say there is a shelf there - I pedaled out to an obvious seam.  Current wasn't very fast, but it was there.

I wish I was out there today - 3 feet at 14 seconds, with 1 foot windwaves.

And as far as Lingzilla goes, I'm not too broken up about losing the fish.  I landed it, I just couldn't hang on to it.  That was my first time with a big fish in my lap, and given the size of it, I may have thrown it back anyway - I'm not in the AOTY (yet), and everyone has been talking about CNR for Lings over 36 inches.  I figure it will live to see another day and another fight - I hooked the gaff through the lip on purpose, as I didn't want to damage its gills.  My plan was to get it onboard, measure it, maybe snap a pic, and if it was substantially longer than my hawg trough, throw it back.

Back to not being AOTY, I didn't bother actually measuring any of the fish (except the first underling, the little cabbie that got tossed, which looked too small) - both cabs were over 20 inches (my hand span is 9 1/4", and they were longer than two hands), and the biggest of the three rocks was about 20" (again, longer than two handspans).

If the weather and calm ocean continues through Sunday, I am heading back out.

Giggity.
Madoc

Anyone still thinking about heading out to either location on Sunday? I have a new gaff to learn and a freezer to fill up.

Jay

Anyone still thinking about heading out to either location on Sunday? I have a new gaff to learn and a freezer to fill up.

Jay

I'm keeping an eye on the swell size right now - if it stays 5 feet and under, I am going to try for Pacific City again on Sunday - I need to figure out where the leak is in my transducer puck so my sonar will work, and then I plan on trying for lingzilla again - I remember roguhly where I was when the strike came, and I want a second round with it.  Can't make the final call until Saturday PM.