SP Dan And singletrack Hit LAB Sat 6-30-2018

Saturday 6-30-2018

I hooked up with my ol' fishing partner Daniel a.k.a. singletrack for today's session.
I believe that we practically ended-up landing fish per-each-others-fish. Our combined fish count was definitely in the high sixty's for certain! That's the way to put the wood to em' Daniel!!  
I was my honor to have fished with one of the most consistently successful FT suds anglers around!  

Gray light: 0450 hrs
Miles Kicked On FT: 1.43 miles
Calories Burnt: Approx 628 if we had been walking so I'm going to guess approx 1,000+ calories burnt today.
Swell: SSW
Air Temp: 64 deg to 66 deg, cloudy cool sky's w/ a marine layer that didn't start to burn off until 1000 hrs.
Water Temp: 68 deg
Session Duration: 0500 hrs until 1100 hrs (6 hrs).
Sun Rise: 0545 Hrs, Sun Set: 2007 hrs.
Wind: 0600 hrs over cast 5-mph S, 1200 hrs 7-mph SW.
CE: 71 in the morning, average
Bait Presence: massive amounts of bait and bait balls in the water everywhere.
Sea Dog Presence: none to report.
Sea Bird Presence: just a few diving birds
Dolphin Presence: none to report.
Surf: 2-3 ft to 1ft, Swell: 1.4 ft, Sec's Between Sets: 16
Tidal Conditions: 0500 hrs -0.3 ft, 0548 hrs LT -0.5 ft, 0700 hrs -0.1 ft, 0800 hrs 0.7 ft, 0900 hrs 1.7 ft, 1000 2.0 ft, 1100 hrs 3 ft.
Isolunar: Minor period from 0709 hrs until 0839 hrs.  <"))>< <"))>< <"))>< <"))><
Bait used: 1/4oz & 3/8oz Sardine Green Silver, 1/4oz Mint, colored HUB's with Bio-Edge scent along with Hot Sauce.

Equipment used: for fishing in LAB today, I used Diawa Samurai #20 braided line w/ a 5 ft long 12 lb Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon as my leader on a 3-Shimano Stradic Ci4 2500 reels.
My 3-stix were rated 4# - 8# 6-ft 1-pc. B"n"M SharpShooter

The early morn light was the most active bite period of the day for approx the first 1 1/2 hrs of today's session, that's when I landed my first 15 fish .... and then I slowly landed the remaining 18 fish over the following 4 1/2 hrs of the session.
The conditions were really pretty good and we were both able to land some real TOADS today.

singletrack's Fish Count: 32 fish total, 3-different species, 7 legals, plus the Bass Trifecta.
(6) Sandy's, 1 legal
(25) Spotty's, 6 legals
(1) Short Calico

Here's singletrack with just one of his many toads of the day I believe he was totally STOKED!!
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We used my lap tray board in order to get a good measurement on this TOAD.
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SP Dan's Fish Count: 33 fish total, 5-different species, 6 legals plus the Bass Trifecta on the "SS Stitch":

(1) Sculpin, 7 1/2"
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(6) Sandy's, the best was a 14" legal
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(24) Spotty's, the best were a 14", 15 1/2", 16", 15 1/4" legals
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(1) Short Calico, 9 1/2"
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(1) legal 22 1/2" Halibut
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And here's a bait fish's view of the inside of a small legal Halibut's mouth! Check out this guy's piranha like chompers!!!
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I only post one of each species unless there are multi legals, PB's or NS (new species).
PS ... I am purely a 100% CPR sportsman ... I only capture, photograph/measure and release as quickly as possible!

And ... thank you to everyone for taking the time to view my posting!    

SP Dan     <"))><

Nice day on the water boys.
Thanks for sharing.

Another great day on the water... also very good to see Singletrack is still slaying the bass in there!

Looks like a fabulous day. Nicely done, gents!

-Ken

Jerdon wrote:Nice day on the water boys.
Thanks for sharing.

You betcha!

david886720 wrote:Another great day on the water... also very good to see Singletrack is still slaying the bass in there!

Yah ... Daniel just had the delivery of his 2nd son two weeks ago .. so ... between being busy at work, being a good husband to his wife and a good pops to his oldest son ... he's also been super busy with the addition of his newest son to top it all off. Phew!!
I'm really surprised that he could find the time for a Sat session!

So yes .... it was really good to see Singletrack back out there slaying the bass and to also catch up with him as well.
I'll tell ya David .... Daniel's still got the touch! lol

Thanx David for all of your continuous positive support and friendship.
I swear ... one of these days ... we are going to land in the same water at the same time for one heck of a great session!

Mo2vation wrote:Looks like a fabulous day.  Nicely done, gents!

-Ken

It was the perfect day!
Thanx

SP Dan <"))><