[Calcutta]

same here, launched at 6, nada off the point - no bait- ended up making only one spaniard after a long paddle down to the pier around 11:30, I think- birds start working outside the point around noon, my bro decides to charge and I reluctantly follow- got back outside the reserve, bait is here, Kelly aka Remington makes four pieces of nice greenie and heads farther outside, I just slow troll the lonely spanish- get bit, stoked, end up with a heck of a sleigh ride, not the big fork I thought at first, but a black sea bass I'm guessing between 60-70 lbs., pulled the 40 lb. on the TN30 with a tight drag really hard, so much fun! Nice how you can dig your heels in on the yak and really pull on a fish. I just started yakking two weeks ago, I was wondering how it would go fighting a fish with shoulders- my opinion is it's better then stand up, you can pull hard as hell with a tight drag, epic. Bummed when she was floating, I slipped out the 6/0 Owner circle and flagged down a commercial bug guy to see if he could help me get her back down- I was stoked and stressing at the same time, she was still strong but couldn't get down- Ended up grabbing her right at her tail with two hands and turned her right side up, she bolted and made it maybe 8-10 feet down, but the good thing was the stream of bubbles coming from her arse, mac farts or better yet swim bladder compressing, she came back up one more time, tried to grab her tail and she bolted to the bottom, stoked!!! Lobster guy was stoked, he was tripping on that fish coming to the yak, we were both stoked she was good to go- I waited around for about ten minutes, she never came back up, STOKED!!! Back to the beach, great day! I'm really liking being able to launch from the beach and get a workout on 40 lb., how cool is this??? Insane way to fish....