Good morning everyone, this is my first post on here. So a friend and I went fishing this last saturday just north of Seven Bays. This weekend we were beach fishing as my usual fishing partener with the boat was coyote hunting. Lines were were wet by 7:45 and the wind was howling. We had a couple of combinations on (2 pole endorsments). I was running the ever popular Garlic mallows and nightcrawlers and my friend had two combination of garlic scented powerbait. It didnt really matter what we had on, it was pretty slow until 10 am and by 1 we had our limit. I was using a single barbless hook and ended up throwing a couple 16"s back in. The first fish of the day for me was a real suprise, it started as a delicate nibble and came back to just whale my nightcrawler. Right off the bat the fish started to spool some line. I was thinking to myself holy smokes did the completely loosen my drag and not realize it? After a solid fight I landed a 24" 5lb.1oz natural rainbow! What a beauty, theres not much of a better sight when you look at your fish bucket and 6 inches of Tail is hangin out! Every other fish was the typical 16-18" stockers. Tight lines everyone!