[SoCalEDC]

Went out to Cabrillo yesterday morning with a buddy. It was his first time Yak fishin.

On the water by 0700, made bait by 0730, 7-10 lizard fish and a couple of sardines.

Reverse droppers for halibut and dropshot/jig fishing for bass.

Get a couple of bass (land one, one gets off right under the boat) and head over toward the channel.

Buddy hooks up to a nice halibut, rolls the kayak dumps all of his gear (my gear, he was using), gets back on the kayak, recovers the rod/reel that didnt have the fish, recovers the gaf. One of my lines ends up tangling on his rod that had the fish on it so i give him that rod so he can recover the other. He reels in a Daiwa sealine, a 7' pacificstick rod, and a decent halibut using the snagged line on my small spinning set up.

He lands the fish with this tangled mess, and saves my rod/reel combo.

Halibut ends up being 26" and quite meaty.

We fished for a little while longer, headed back in. I landed a 13" Sculpin a couple hundred yards off the beach and we called it a day.

Great day, great story.

I'll rebuild the reels and we will laugh about this for a long time to come.