Sunday, July 21, 2024

 

    The weather was bad yesterday and the forecast was for better weather today. Instead, we got crappier, foggier, windier weather. It was more than a little disappointing. John Rosasco was more than a little disappointed to drive all early morning in the dark to get here and discover that the wind was blowing, and blowing pretty hard. He tried some spots that weren't biting in the wind, and then tried one more, right across from the boathouse. He hit it during the turn of the tide and hooked this personal best 34 pound halibut on a jig. The fish would look larger except for the fact that John is a large man. If you know John, this picture is "Damn! What a fish." Otherwise, the fish seems small next to him. John is known here as Jigger John, as he has been jigging up halibut since well before jigging was cool (if it ever was). It sure worked for this fish, and countless others over the years. If success is cool, then John here is making jigging cool. Nice damn fish, John. Nobody else even tried to weigh in a fish today. It sucked. Except for Jigger John.

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