It's been a strange year camping and fishing at Sunset Beach during the Memorial Day Weekend. For starters, the weather was great! Seventy degrees during the day and low fifties at night, with hardly any wind as compared to previous years. I had thought that I got the surf perch dialed in. Unfortunately, the tides didn't cooperate and I got multiple bites, but no hookups :-( It's a good thing we brought a lot of food. Two staple things were catching monkeyface eel (prickback fish) and sand crabs! As a matter of fact, my son caught the biggest sand crab that I have ever seen!
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| Biggest sand crab ever! |
Another staple was that whenever Young Master Fisherman is around, there's bound to be fish caught! The young man is a tremendous fisherman. He consistently out fishes all of us. It's great to see him in action.
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| Another couple of inches and he will be taller than JU. |
My eldest daughter, after many years of being absent from fishing, has returned. She out fishes JU at Sunset Beach.
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| Caught at low tide, even. |
Then, there were our good friends and family. It's always a pleasure to have them nearby.
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| The kids are all taller than us now :-) |
We fished and fished and got skunk! We were schooled by YMF and Princessa :-(
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| At least the sunset is beautiful :-) |
We had nightly visitors come by to check for any food that might be left out :-)
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| Not this time Mr. Racoon :-) |
Then, we all got a great sun tan or sun burn playing and fishing on the beach :-)
There were a lot of fishing and eating!
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| Lingcod!?!? How'd you get that? |
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| Camping or "Glamping?" |
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| I fish... sometimes :-) |
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| Uh.... We better find a better way to cook next time :-) |
Finally, introducing.... Extreme Fisherman! The man fishes chest high in the waves and dives in the water to catch sand crabs. It's crazeee! He is the winner of this year's biggest surf perch caught from our group. Unfortunately, I don't have the picture of the fish. It is around a pound and a half. It is the biggest surf perch that I have seen in real life, the ones on YouTube and pictures do not count :-)
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| Extreme Fisherman in one of his calmer moments :-) |
Peace out,
-JU
Updated 6/9/2017
Here are additional pictures sent to me today:
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| One FAT barred perch! |
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