South OC Report 4/21 BIG GOAT Report!!!!

Carcharodon · Apr-21-2006, 06:38 PM

Well I have made a few posts here and this is my first decent report

Me and two friends took out kayaks out to and undisclosed southern orange county location today.
The vis was spotty, 5' in places, 15' in places. Overall about 10' at the bottom.
The place was loaded with life and all the right kinds were there.
Tons of bass & sheephead everywhere and I counted about 6 or 7 different horn sharks.
I was in the water for about 30mins when I peeked into a crevace seeing about a 6lb calico which bolted and then this big ass goat. He saw me and went far into the crevace.
I waited about 10 mins stalking him and he had swam though a hole in the back. I came around the reef he was hiding in and while grabbing the reef with one hand keeping my whole body hidden except for my face and gun and then I lined up a shot and he was gone. Never saw it comming

Went thought the day and saw many, many more nice sheepshead including a few 5-15lbs LARGER than this one. One when he saw me took off and made one of those huge booms like WSB do with their tails.
I could have easily taken many more like this but did not want to take away more than one of these large apex predators and did not want to be wasteful.
There were many nice bass that I saw all over the place.
Around 11 the wind and swell picked up. We were about to leave when one of my friends mentioned they wanted some fish to bring back so I went out and shot a 10.5# for him. This would have been a normal great fish for laguna but not for this spot.
He had taken a few smaller fish that broke off including one sandbass that snapped the mono on the gun I was letting him use. At least if it was going to break it didnt break off on something huge.

This fish went 26.5# at the certified scale at Jig Stop.
Thanks for the mono and picture!

Both fish were taken with my Wong 55" Hybrid.
This bad boy was my largest sheepshead yet and I do not plan on taking any more for a while ;-)

http404 · Apr-21-2006, 06:43 PM

Right on man!!! That is a great fish.

Kudos for not getting greedy and leaving some alone.

**Smudge** · Apr-21-2006, 06:47 PM

Totally bithcin' bro. Awesome report!!! and awesome pics!!!

BlueHunter · Apr-21-2006, 07:09 PM

Them's some nice fish. Glad to see you guys enjoying the outdoors. Keep at it.

Wang949 · Apr-21-2006, 09:27 PM

thanks for the ride austin and for letting me use your speargun........ even though i broke the mono

**Saluki** · Apr-21-2006, 09:40 PM

That's the biggest damn goat I've seen!!!!
(Except for the one in Cooters backyard)

Congrats Dude!!!!

Cartero · Apr-21-2006, 10:03 PM

Props to you for just taking what you need.

Those Horn Sharks sure look cool don't they? Nice report, dood.

sdfishkiller · Apr-21-2006, 10:36 PM

kid you are wise beyond your years. you are one badass waterman

the ocean is your grocerystore

Blackfish · Apr-21-2006, 10:42 PM

Way to go and hats of to you for only taking what you could use.....BIG Respect.

Great report.

**Mstonefish** · Apr-21-2006, 10:47 PM

AWESOME !

gonebendo · Apr-21-2006, 10:52 PM

I've been waiting for the water to warm up so I can take my gun out. My boyfriend keeps telling me it's still too cold. Do you know what the temp was? Was it very cold???? Thats a frikin NICE goat...Good job

Jaydog · Apr-21-2006, 11:16 PM

Nice Shot!!! Thank's for the pics., that's a monster.