Date: June 11, 2007
To: PFIC: Message Board
From: Ken Jones
Subject: Short trip to the southland—
...The next morning Hashem and I headed down to Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara for another couple of hours of fishing. It was still somewhat slow although I did manage a half dozen fair-sized Spanish mackerel, five Pacific mackerel, a couple of sanddabs and a shiner. The main highlight was a guy who hooked a large bat ray and fought it for twenty minutes or so up and down the pier before deciding to cut his line and letting it go at the net.
There was one other highlight of sorts when Hashem decided to cast out a small swimbait using the rod and reel GDude had given him in Catalina. He made a beautiful cast from the east side of the pier where we were standing and thought it amazing that the line kept streaming off his reel. How could he cast that far? When he tightened his line he found that it was headed over his right shoulder toward the southwest corner of the wharf. He ran over to that corner while continuing to reel in line and finally realized a bird had grabbed the swimbait mid-air and was headed out to Hawaii. Luckily the bird wasn't hooked and finally dropped the lure but Hashem attracted quite a crowd to his bird-flight-fight.
To: PFIC: Message Board
From: Ken Jones
Subject: Short trip to the southland—
...The next morning Hashem and I headed down to Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara for another couple of hours of fishing. It was still somewhat slow although I did manage a half dozen fair-sized Spanish mackerel, five Pacific mackerel, a couple of sanddabs and a shiner. The main highlight was a guy who hooked a large bat ray and fought it for twenty minutes or so up and down the pier before deciding to cut his line and letting it go at the net.
There was one other highlight of sorts when Hashem decided to cast out a small swimbait using the rod and reel GDude had given him in Catalina. He made a beautiful cast from the east side of the pier where we were standing and thought it amazing that the line kept streaming off his reel. How could he cast that far? When he tightened his line he found that it was headed over his right shoulder toward the southwest corner of the wharf. He ran over to that corner while continuing to reel in line and finally realized a bird had grabbed the swimbait mid-air and was headed out to Hawaii. Luckily the bird wasn't hooked and finally dropped the lure but Hashem attracted quite a crowd to his bird-flight-fight.