Open Water : : Lost in Time

TIDE | San Diego : :  Sunday 4/8/2012 | 4.6 high at 11:19am and 0.9 low @ 4:44pm
Moon Phase : :  Full Moon on the Wane

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Every time I come back from fishing and I am washing my boat down neighbors and friends always ask the same condescending question, "you catch anything good, any keepers"? Some people just don't get it. Paired with alcohol, fishing for me is a detached form of escape. With an ever-increasing population slowly encroaching on my world of skateboarding and surfing I have slowly evolved into a life on the water. I can run out to the kelp beds and get lost in time.  Time spent drifting with the tides watching how pods of dolphins hunt and pelicans glide on the rolling swells. I don't care if I catch a 12 inch fish or a 28 inch fish, its all about the solitude and the escape. Getting a fish for dinner is just a rare added bonus.
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Paired with alcohol, fishing for me is a detached form of escape.

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They are Under the Birds

TIDE | San Diego : : Tuesday 4/3/2012 | 5.2 high at 7:20am and -0.2 low @ 1:47am
SD Big Bay Temperature : : 61.7° | Moon Phase : :  First Quarter
Retrieval Speed : :    crawl       |     slow    |     medium     |   fast

6 Spotted Bass, 2 Calico Bass and 2 Sand Bass {kept one 18" Sand Bass for Dinner}
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Coming out of the starting gate hot with a few hundred birds crashing bait right in front of me. With no other boats around I slide into the chaotic mayhem undetected. I kill the engine and drift off to the side of the birds. I cast into the bait ball and let my swim jig sink deep. It took a few casts to find the bass but once I did it was on for about a half hour. Surface bites almost every cast and I hooked into three nice bass. My good luck ended when the seals heard all the commotion and showed up. Everything shut down real quick and I moved on. The rest of the day was slow but I still got a handful of fish.

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Fresh Local Caught Sand Bass slow cooked in garlic lemon butter on top of a bed of Spinach layered with a Brown Rice Medley and long cut Asparagus seasoned with sesame seeds

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