North Pacific Ocean (Santa Clara River-Deer Creek Beach)

While fishing for perch, a big calico bass suddenly inhaled my bait and took off, pulling line off my reel! I tightened the drag to 10 lbs to keep the line from breaking. The calico made four powerful runs before finally running out of energy. I slowly reeled it in toward the rocks, but unfortunately, the fish was too big to bring up over them. Just as a big wave came crashing in, my main line snapped, and the calico bass got away! Oh well, that's fishing! 😅 You win some, you lose some. I'll be back for that big one next time! 🎣💪

Catch and release Tuesday tight lines. The wind picked up so fast that you can only fish for the morning hours.

Catch and cook. Tight lines.

Surf perch time. Tight lines.

Surf perch Tight lines.

Second Thornback, I caught 2 in 1 day🤙