Wednesday, October 14, 2009

the deep sea

on a beautiful sd wednesday hong and i hit up the boat.
15 anglers including us, the water couldn't have been more glassy, and the weather could have been better.

here's what we got:

hong's biggest bonito, what a fighter.


a peek into my bag, bonito and mackerel.


measuring out hong's catch. i paid the deck hand to fillet my 7 fish and bag em up. most of mine were as big as the bottom four in this pic. the top two are sand bass, the big one is that bonito, and the lower 4 are mackerel.


a close up, twenty three inches = we didn't weigh this guy but i'm guessing near 654lbs, (give or take 650)

i took mine home and hooked up fish tacos!





bonus:

it's healthy to mix up your diet, fish and poultry are the healthy proteins. hong too the opportunity to hook into fish as well as birds on this 1/2 day trip. also, in this pic you can see hong's brand new birthday pole/reel [the black death junior].

Monday, October 12, 2009

off the shore...

hong and i went fishing off the la jolla shore on oct 12th.

it was a beautiful san diego day...
well, not ALL things were beautiful.

i caught a few of those big goldfishies, which happen to be the state fish (had to toss them back). hong got the winner this time:


we also caught some fishies that we call senoritas. hong insisted on measuring these two baitfish. gotta love that competitive nature!