Monday, September 19th, 2005
9:30 am. I needed to de-stress this morning, so I went down to the beach to toss some flies in the water. The day was beautiful, very bright and sunny, so I didn't have any great expectations.. well, that is to say, I figured I would catch maybe some fish, and that is about how it worked out.
I'm still using the setup with the 350gr depth-charge line, which doesn't sink as fast as the name suggests.
I cast on the left side of the pier again; the little mini-rips were there and the surf was variable.. sometimes calm, sometimes fairly high. After what seemed like a long time, I hooked a dink, that released itself in the churn of the surf right at my feet. A bit later I finally landed a small perch, and then another one almost immediately after it. The first one wiggled itself loose into the line basket. The second one did the same over the sand. A nearby gull was hoping I would toss it the fish, but "No way, buster!".
Toward the end the kelp was getting to be a bother. At one time I thought it was game over, but it turned out that the hideous tangle I saw was mostly someone else's fishing line stuck in the kelp I had just retrieved.
Anyway, it was nice to get out and I felt the better for it. Headed in to work at 11:15.