6/6 LJ Sea Monster?
 

OK DSsafety mentioned this guy in his post earlier but I am dying to know what this guy had on is line saturday. I paddled out around 8AM and passed this guy on a white Cobra with a fly rod on back. He had his spinner down in the water and was just kind of sitting there. I didn't even know he was hooked up. So I get out on the corner and fish around for a while -talk to this nice guy Mark who gives me a Mac and tell's me there's a guy inside who's been fighting a fish since 7AM in a white yak. Now this is about 1PM or so - I didn't connect the two. So I'm one of the last guys off the water and as I'm coming in at around 3PM there's this lone guy in the white yak and he's getting towed out to sea again!!! Plus, he only has half a pole. He's hooked up to a submaine or something and he's got half a pole. Last I saw him he was headed out to the corner. That's an eight hour plus fight there. I'm thinking it's an adult thresher maybe? What the hell fights for eight hours? Dude, if you're on these boards please post the outcome.

Nessie? Bllinky?:D

bull kelp adrift :reeling:

BSB?

I was thinking the same thing, I saw that guy, he wasn't moving, and he had a Jigmaster on an upside down spinning rod, that was broken... crazyboy180 style... :D But, I could be wrong, he probably caught more than I did on Saturday... :(

Afghani spy submarine?

If I am on a fish for more than 30 minutes.........it is nothing I want. Button down, thumb the spool.........break it off!:D T shark, BSB mud marlin.

Chupacabra!!!!! I hear they are big this year.

Thats some really funny stuff right there! Fighting a fish on a spinning rod for eight hours,come on now!. An imaginary fish can happen to some.....

Kelp.

Batray,even sharks give up after that much time.
Maybe he had spectra all the way to the hook and he couldn't break it off. It is a funny picture though, Jigmaster on a broken upside down spinning rod

If kelp swims then maybe. He said he thought he had it about 30 feet or so - so I waited around for a few minutes to see what it was. That's when he took off for open water pretty fast. He wasn't paddling either. Even a BSB doesn't take more than an hour or so. It was truly wack.

What time did he start heading out. The tide turned around noon that day. ;)

Hard core
 

He lost all of his gear but would not give up the fight.

-The infamous Laguna Beach SHEEPSCRAB ..? :)

That guy is going to have one hell of a back ache today.
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You are supposed to Get Pics of sights like that......for our entertainment.

It was 3PM or so. COuld it have been a max fow out? Maybe, but I never saw the tide push a yak in a perfectly westerly direction ....excep maybe Mission Bay channel. Then again there was a strong wind blowing inshore.... maybe the two combined to make him look like he was moving faster away from me than he really was. But he was going in a circle when I first came up on him...what about that? You got to be pretty dense to battle kelp for 8 ours. Hey I'm just reporting on what I saw....cause in 5-6
bb years on the canyons I've never seen anying like it.

Someones imagination has gone wild.... the guy must of had wire leader,300# mono on the spinning rod to have had that fish on for 8 hrs. Its like the"old man and the sea" story. Ride that bull kelp to Hawaii.

A full sabiki of mature black sea bass.

NEEEEEEEEEMMMOOOOOOOOOO!:reel:

I too have fought the "green dragon" for hours at a time. Broke a fenwick and a kencor to boot.

sparky..matured......travelled south from San Onofre:reel:

:captain:i think he was the real kayk version of captain ahab.. "Thar she blows!"

A similar thing happened to a friend of mine while on his boat out at Cortes Bank. He thought he had a huge yellow and may have that eventually wrapped the kelp. I was trying to tell him to give it up...(after 2 hours) but he was convinced he had a record fish on! I wonder if this guy really did have something big on that was towing him at first but then got wrapped?

I once spent an hour in a life and death struggle with bull kelp.(long time ago OK) The current was ripping and it was even making short runs(or so it seemed) Ied of swore it was a monster fish. That of course isn't the case here;)Im sure.

IN THIS CASE 5 FT SWELL EQAULS A IRONIC 5 FT RUNS

A few years ago I watched as an angler fought the bottom for at least an hour. I told him it was the bottom but he refused to believe me, funny enough the "fish" ran every time a swell would go through.

Hello all,

OMG, fighting the fish for that much hour, not me. 1hr are the most. But
does anyone know, what he came up with?

Peace.

I was half serious about drifting bull kelp because I've had a battle with the mighty salad myself! It didn't go on for more then 10 or 15 minute and I wasn't fishing with an upside down coffee grinder, but I was amazed at how a little Calico wrapped around kelp felt like THE ONE. I've heard another story like that with a kelp/ling-cod battle going on for quite a long time but I'm not one to start a rumor.:leaving:

Probably hooked my career...........:D

I was freediving and hunting off Pt. La Jolla and I saw some mono trailing across under the surface going into the Reserve. I grabbed it with my gloved hand and it towed me about 30 yds, moving so fast I was leaving a wake. I had to decide whether or not I wanted to get towed into the Reserve and fight the fish or try to turn it because I was getting really close to the border.

I put on the brakes and the fish/sea lion/black seabass/monster just kept going straight and the line cut through my padded glove. I was just about going to give it a wrap around my speargun but the bitter end pulled through my hand and that was it. My hand didn't get sliced but my dive glove on my right hand was shredded. My guess, is that it was a bsb but I'll always wonder if it was a monster yt or wsb.

8 hours swinging in the current :rolleyes:

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...potDrawing.jpg

Don't know where the drawing came from, but I bet it's right.

CLASSIC!

Mine wasnt attached to no bull kelp..

To clarifiy... at least I had a spinning reel on a spinning rod,...upside down:biggrinjester:

Crazy Boy lives....!:you_rock::luxhello::cheers1:

That happened to the Fishcatcher one time, didn't have the heart to tell him...then he pulled out a 21" Calico...:eek:

This is the best post ever.

I was on an adult thresher for 5 1/2 hours not to long ago. the only thing was I new what I hooked as soon as I hooked it due to the blistering first run and 5 to 8 foot jumps. shark had to be in the 300# class & the fight was on 40# to boot. whats his deal?