My 60th FT Session, AO: LAH And MY Personal Best Fish Count

I met singletrack at LAH and we launched our vessels at 0530 hrs.

Today was my 60th float tube session this year since 3-18-2016.

AO: LAH, we approached today's session as a RECON Session because it was virgin territory to both of us.
Session Duration: 0530 hrs until 1130 hrs
Sun Rise: 0648 hrs, Start of Grey Light: 0600 hrs.
Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous.
Tidal Conditions: incoming tide 0500 5.6', 0600 6.2', 0636 HT 6.4', outgoing tide 0700 6.37', 0800 5.7', 0900 4.5', 1000 3.0', 1100 1.4, 1200 0.2'.
Ocean Swell: WNW /NW
Water Temp: 58 deg and extremely clear with great depth in water visibility. Definitely SoCal board-shorts weather.
Bait: Pods of 3-4" shinners breaking the surface.
Birds: A few pelagic birds here and there.
Harbor Dogs: Just one seal early on in the morn. Thank goodness he didn't want to become our friend!!   Phewww!!
Wind: offshore 5 mph at 0600 hrs and onshore 9 mph at 1200 hrs.
Air Temps: 56 - 68 deg. Heavy cloud cover with some early drizzles, some patchy fog and later in the morn we had huge blue sky holes in the clouds to mix up the day. Hot, cold, hot ... etc. Well you get it!
iSolunar Prediction: 3-fish were predicted, the Major Period: 0803 to 1103 hrs.
Distance: We kicked and covered 1.98 miles. Calories Burnt: 906
Tackle Used: 3" & 4" BH Bay Smelt on a 3/16oz chartreuse; and plan, Hammerhead w/ 2/0 hook, and the Drop-Shot rig w/ a Gamakatsu size 2/0 Offset Shank Worm EWG hook and a 5" Zoom Green Fluke with a 1/2 oz finesse weight and I used the shooting-the-dock form of cast shooting using both the 1/4oz Sardine Green / Silver and the Black Gold HUB. I slathered Hot Sauce scent on everything ... myself included.    Ha ha ha!!!

singletrack's fish count: (30 fish) with 5 legals.

SP Dan's fish count: (39 fish) All short, No legals. My previous PB fish count was 30 fish in one session.

(1) Halibut, 11 1/4"
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(24) Sand Bass, best 12 1/2"
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(7) Calico Bass, best 11 1/4"
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(7) Green-Back Mackerel, best 12 1/4"
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And we briefly visited the "Concrete Jungle" ... a must place to visit while in town!!  
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Well ..... "That's all Folks"!!

Thanx for taking the time to check out my fish report!  

Happy Holidays and a "Merry Fishmas" to all!!!

SP Dan    <"))><

Wow, and epic day of casting and catching.
The messy part of the liquid fish attractants is the down side for me.
It seems I get it on everything in a 5 foot radius. 

Thanks for sharing.

Damn! Great session Dan and Singletrack!

DAMN 30 and 39 fish that is great guys thanks for sharing and keep them coming guys.

This is a great report of our awesome day. I will be putting a short video up of the day as soon as I have time to edit it.

Wanted to share the video I put together of our trip to LAH.

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Good job on the video.  
It really captured the good times!

SP Dan     <"))><

singletrack wrote:Wanted to share the video I put together of our trip to LAH.

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Looks like a good time for both of you.
Great video and thanks for sharing.