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photo courtesy of fast coexist.com

I remember the first time I witnessed a large ocean creature, beached high and dry rotting and rolling in the surf line. It was a large leatherback turtle, over five hundred pounds, she had expired either from old age or illness. that was in the late seventies and it was in the Atlantic on Breezy Point, New York, right in front of our small beach cottage. I had to be in my early teens and it seemed surreal seeing this large deceased reptile right where I swam everyday. I remember the scientists and biologists all came to the scene to determine cause of death and get tissue samples. The Belgian Art Collective, Captain Boomer is displaying a plexiglass leviathan along with fake scientists at London’s International Festival of the Arts for all people to witness this often sad event of beached sea creatures for those never having the first hand experience. Click her for article!

photos by John Dietch

Here’s a few that were landed this morning by friend, John Dietch in the Southland. Looks like John’s fish ate a grey merkin. John had been having a tough time the past few outings but closed the deal this morning with a nice fish that was fair caught on the fly. His buddy from back east,  I hear has been putting a hurt on the fish the past few days like there’s nothing to it…

image courtesy of the bbd news.

This goes out to all fly fishers, men and women, keep a youthful spirit.

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my buddy james dwyer is quite a photographer and corbina patrol angler, here are some of his pics from the other morning. thanks james!

uno! photo by Al Q

dos! photo by Al Q

this summed it up for me! photo by Al Q

nice field and stream shot by Jim Solomon!

redemption. photo by Jim Solomon

is the voodoo off? stay tuned…photo by Jim Solomon

well we decided to move around a little since the reports have been from all over the south bay. the corbina are literally on everywhere. we went to location x this morning, a place we haven’t fished in a long time. when we arrived in grey light, the beans had their backs completely out of the water and were bombing the beach like a WWII raid in Normandy. it was not hard to spot them, the early low tide had them sliding up and down, in groups of threes and tens. all big fish with stout shoulders. my buddy jim was first to hook up and landed a nice one to my right. He ended the day with two. my other friend rick got one. I had the corbina voodoo this morning. I could not close the deal. I hooked  7 fish and had six stick, on the reel, but they all unbuttoned. it was comical! the cool part was that I was seeing and hooking fish, watching their rhythms, sliding and later cruising inside waves, the bad part was they were all unbuttoning. Finally the last one stuck and we slide her up on the beach. as I was fighting this fish I mutter something like, come to poppa! at that point it didn’t really matter if she unbuttoned, I was fishing with my buds, with fish all around us, on a secluded beach, sight casting! too cool for words… 🙂

nice chunky fish. photo by John Whitaker

Matt’s first fair-caught bean landed this morning. Congratulations buddy! photo by Matt Abrams

More good reports from the southland. Two corbina patrol buds, Tim and Jon landed 8 corbina before 7am this morning, all fair-hooked, now that is insane…it is turning out to be a banner season. I plan to fish tomorrow, bad arm and all..

flies doing the damage…photo by Tim Postel