THE MAN IN THE GRAY STRIPED SUIT SAYS HAPPY NEW YEAR

grand isle sharker · 2012-01-03T22:09:44Z

Earlier this week I had post up "Anyone want to go fishing" looking to hit the beach one last time and bring in the New Year. My usual fishing partners could not make it out and fishing by yourself just isn't any fun. I figured i'd make a desprate reach to the sharking community to see if I could drag anyone out to take one last shot before I had to return to work. Wednesday morning i got a call from "Sharkin Sonny" to find out what I had in mind. We made some tentative plans and based upon a few conditions we woul try to make the trip down to Pensacola to bring in the New Year. We knew it would be cold and windy it was just a matter of if we wanted to bare the nighttime chills with temps projected to be down into 30's and high in the 60's. Thursday after pretty much writing off any last minute trips Sonny called back. He mentioned something about the talking to the Shark Gods, Mother Nature and talked about lunar cycles. All i heard was, IT WAS ON!!! We planned to drive down that evening and meet up Friday morning. Sonny's regular fishing partner Bill "Firedawg", both members of TEAM REAL FAKE had a hotspot and said he was going put us on the fish. How can you go wrong!! Bill has had ALOT of success fishing the same spot. Having mutiple hookups going at once, it was on FIRE!! I had to talk Sonny out of making me drive blindfolded to the spot, it was just to dangerous!! Hot acton and secret spots!! Does it get any better than that? We arrived down in Pensacola a little after midnight, Sonny ran to pick up some bait from Bill that was recently caught. We met at "The Spot". Mother nature greeted us with a strong south wind, extremly surf conditions and a chilling temperature below 50 degrees. We decided to catch some shut eye and wake up early and set up to get baits out. DAY 1 Friday 12/30/11 Woke up to Sonny knocking on my window, telling me that sleeping is for girls and to get my gear and drag it to the beach. Day One Conditions - South west winds 10-15mph Surf - OMG Temp - 50's in the warming to high 60's during the day With all the gear unloaded rods set in their holders Sonny ran out his 1st bait, Bonita into the rough conditions. I quietly sat and tried to think of reasons why I couldnt run out my baits. See on the KayaK ability chart of 1 to 10, I'd some in at negative 5, Below novice. Today all that have to change if i planned on getting any baits out. Plus i couldnt look like a ninny, at least not to much infront of Sonny. I rigged up some fresh Bonita that we had got from Bill on a Shark Oulet Leader, Finest money can buy and planned to run it out. Then i stood and studied the surf for awhile.... and awhile and awhile... no one was counting the time, except Sonny. :-O I wanted to kayak, I just lacked the confidance. Recently I a kayak accident that had me in the hospital anda leg brace for a 3-4 days. The surf I was looking at was 2-4Ft, at least to Sonny, to me they were at least 10 footers. Long story short I made it out dropped my bait and made it back to the 1st bar before whiping and having to swim back to shore. This happened every time I ran a bait out on Friday... But I was learning and did manage one successful bait run and returned safley with the kayak upright. We had a few short runs but no takers until Sonny's 12/0 started singing!!! Sonny wanted Andrea to catch the 1st shark, she was hooked upUnfortuantly the hook pulled...... We had a break in the action about this time, I went to the store and we had a vist from Troy, Doc and family!! Asked if we needed anything and went to try some sharking down the a ways. Told us if we caught a monster to call him and he would come down to help. Unfortunalty the shark made its way free before long and Sonny yacked his bait back out. In the late evening I caught a 17inch pomp, we had to make a decision to eat it or use it for bait. In the end we did what any rational person would do.... SHARK BAIT!!! Bill came down after work to say hello and bring us some more bait, A Huge Black Drum. As we were starting to prepare dinner as it was approaching 5:30 and then it happened. I heard the sweet singing sounds of the Fin-Nor sportfisher. We jumped up and made our way over. FISH ON!!! Bait- Bonita Bill gave us a hand with the Shark and brought us some good luck and provided us with more direction. Shortly after Bill left we cooked up some steaks with a side of patato salad, YUM!! That topped off the 1st day. Honestly I was happy to see it come to an end cause the next day the surf was suppose to be much calmer!! DAY 2 Saturday 12/31/11 Day Two Conditions - South winds 5-10 mph LOTS OF FOG Surf - Not to Bad Temp - 50's in the warming to high 60's during the day I had studied the wind conitions all night and figured that it should be a good bit calmer on Saturday. I figured I'd go grab some breakfast for the camp, ice and other things. When i got back Sonny was relling in his 12/0 and on the other end was out 1st sha...

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mattwho

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great report, definetly worthy of the 1st sticky of the year (btw monster spinner)

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Posted : 01/06/2012 6:10 pm

jonathanbryan

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Exellent report and love that beach for shark fishing

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Posted : 01/06/2012 10:37 pm

DanTheMan

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FRIED SEAGULL DOES NOT TASTE NOT CHICKEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted : 01/07/2012 1:14 pm

Picua

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Hardcore in that Cold Weather!!!! Very Nice Catches!!!!!

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Posted : 01/07/2012 4:15 pm

oviedoav

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Great report! Where were you located?

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Posted : 01/09/2012 11:12 am

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