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Sometimes I fish for "other than bass", and this morning was one of those times. Lots of little nibbles on Carolina rig with gulp sandworms (sandcrabs were all still tiny babies)...and then bang not a little nibble, she took it and went. Fun battle and landed yhe biggest surfperch i have ever seen, let alone caught. While i was trying to remove the hook, she started popping out babbies...so, i guess I caught about 51 perch today, 50 of them were inside this one. One more pic for size reference.

The big females are spawning, hope you were able get her/them back into the water

Perch killer wrote: Sun Mar 16, 2025 7:46 pm The big females are spawning, hope you were able get her/them back into the water

Sure did...her and every one that fell out on the sand.

Good job on the PB catch and release of the "51"... She is a piggy...
Butch

Good job getting them back in the water, I hope they survive.
I happened to be down by the Embarcadero yesterday and I saw a guy on the pier that caught a pretty big leopard shark and he was opening her up on the pier and there was a bunch of little babies he was throwing back in to the water they swam away but I was concerned they might not survive.
Do you think that they will survive?

vito1023 wrote: Mon Mar 17, 2025 9:54 am Good job getting them back in the water, I hope they survive.
I happened to be down by the Embarcadero yesterday and I saw a guy on the pier that caught a pretty big leopard shark and he was opening her up on the pier and there was a bunch of little babies he was throwing back in to the water they swam away but I was concerned they might not survive.
Do you think that they will survive?

All I can say is that they all swam away...but the surf zone is a dangerous place for tasty looking little fishies...

Very nice slab!!

that's a chunky one, good catch!