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Redlites right I screamed like a little girl. I was so amped up on redbull that my nerves were pretty shot. It didn't help that it was november and we hadn't cought a fish in 2 nights. That same night(or it coulda been the night before) Mike and Tony walked farther down the rocks in gansett and I stayed put cause I was beat. I Sat down resting on my plug bag just thinking I needed to sit down for a bit and next thing I remember is waking up to the spray of a wave that had broken about 2 feet from my feet because of the incoming tide. Scary and pretty dumb on my part.

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Originally posted by piemma
Back a number of years ago I was fishing Peaked Hill Bar on the Back in mid-October. Were out on the bar as the tide started coming in so we got pushed off. About half an hour later we are standing at the truck on the beach and the tide is up on the Bar pretty good. All of a sudden we see a BIG seal fly staight up in the air with a Great White right behind it. Caught the seal as it landed and almost bit it in half. The water turned red everywhere, right where we had been standing half an hour before. Kind of spooked us.

I was always told "find the bait and you'll find the fish".
Can you see the news if that happened at a crowded beach in daytime?

Eben:
I missed your post on Black Rock on a new moon. No better place to be but you gotta add...
NE wind blowing' 25
and High tide at midnight. Oh baby, the cows will be in the wash in Nathans.

P, wong black rock, he ment on the porkchop, not mainland (I think)

and SHHHHHH!!!!!!:smash: :D

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Originally posted by Eben
Black rock on a new moon...:spidey:

i get shivers just thinking about it

For me, without question, this is my favorite surf spot on planet earth. IMO This place is the premiere surfcasting location. When I die I want my ashes spread here off that bluff. (During a north wind so it doesn't hit you in the face)

regarding eyes:
last spring I was doing the all nighter solo thing and was making the walk from Metcalf’s to wasque. It was black and really foggy. I could barely see more then 30' I am fishing plugs and fishing had slowed but I had a couple decent fish earlier that night. While fishing I notice what looks like a dead guy in graylite waders rolling in the surf. His hand was flopping back and forth rolling with the waves in the wash almost beckoning me to come over. It was an eerie sight at night in the fog with just the sound of the waves. I said to myself.... I really don't want to see this and just then I get a powerful hit! Fighting the fish the damn thing ran down the beach in the direction of the dead guy. Before I knew it I was straddling a huge dead seal that was all bleached out and bloated. I moved down the beach and the fish went the other way back towards the seal. No matter what I did I could not keep away from this flopping dead animal. Eventually I landed the bass (37#) and went home.

It really did look like a big fat dead surfcaster. (the seal not the bass)