le pig

I finally got to fish again, this time bringing along a couple of friends Theron and my coworker Mike out to fish on the Queen of Hearts for one of the last trips of the rockfish season. Since I was eager to catch some big ones for my friends, I was swinging for the fences using whole squid to take quality over quantity. Since I’m known as the “fisherman” (all things relative, right?) I had to live up to that name.

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Note the size difference

Owning a boat is time consuming, expensive, and makes me sick, but I’ll hitch a ride on anything that floats. How else can you get out there where the fishes are? While pier and shore fishing are good for the social aspect, you just don’t have access to the water like in a boat.

Turns out a sailboat is a lot of work – there was almost no time or energy to fish! Eventually we parked outside of Tiburon near Paradise cove. This spot was known to have fish around, so I hooked a sardine through the nose and let it down about 20 feet.

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