Kiss Your Katch

I caught my first fish, a small kelp sea bass, while on our mooring in front of Balboa Yacht Club's landing in White's Cove at Catalina Island on August 12, 2012. I was fishing with my children off the back of our boat, a Mainship Pilot 30 "Primo", using fresh squid as bait. True to his name, when I reeled in the line, there was a huge pile of kelp on the end with Mr. Fishy hidden in the middle. My children were in complete disbelief to see me kiss him on the lips!

Kissing my 47 lb Halibut. Petersburg, Alaska.

Jana started the weekend fishing trip with this cuddly little catch on De Anza Cove (Mission Bay) San Diego, CA July 2012.

Shauna Maine catches her first fish (Just purchased her first fishing license the night before). A five pound Catalina White Fish at the Isthmus on June 19th. Beginners Luck!

this is my first barracuda!

Caught this bad boy out of Long Beach on a double dropper loop with an 8 ounce weight fishing the bottom!

Tim browne kissing his catch..caught out of San Pedro December 27th

Smooches – Darren Miller kisses the 23 pound yellowtail he caught on a slow trolled mackerel at the Coronado Islands.

Sophie and Max both successfully landed their trout at the opening day of the Fred Hall show in Del Mar. The fish were consumed about 1/2 hour after the photo was taken.

10 year old Jarett Jones puckering up to a nice little spotty caught from San Diego Bay

A male and a female mahi-mahi were caught at the same time while trolling from a sailboat between St. Lucia and St. Vincent in the Caribbean.

Smooching my calico

Fishing off of Catalina . . caught a bud can.

Alan Gosselin with one of the two dozen calicos he caught and released on Father’s Day on his boat, ENI, along the Ventura coast.

Kaci Yachechak of Whitefish, Montana got her first “taste” of saltwater fishing aboard Fury out of Dana Wharf Sportfishing. In addition to this pretty skipjack Kaci and her friends went on to catch a number of large ahi tuna on their Sept. 3 charter, Betsy Crowfoot told The Log.

Kerry Warren submitted this photo of himself kissing a 58-pound wahoo caught on Lady Georgian out of San Diego.

Randy Loder submitted this photo of himself sharing a romantic moment with his dinner – a 48.2-pound yellowtail caught off the 209 Spot.

“The first month of the season always produces good quality crab at Bodega Bay,” Wade wrote. “Some early traps produce as many as 20 legal crabs. It’s really exciting to pull up a trap that is filled crab.”

Mike Wade kisses a Dungeness Crab he caught out of Bodega Bay, Calif.

James Kitchens kisses a yellowfin tuna caught on a fly-lined live sardine. This isn’t Kitchens’ first go around with a yellowtail as he was also featured on the cover of The Log in the Jan. 29-Feb. 1, 2016 issue, smooching a yellowtail caught in Mexican waters near the Coronado Islands.

Mari Frank a Laguna Niguel attorney-mediator is more like a dolphin than a shark. She is connecting with Cleopatra in San Jose Del Cabo and sharing a gentle yet powerful kisses.

Cheryl De Jager kissed the 64-pound wahoo caught on her boat,Unreel.

“I caught it 2 miles out from The Point in San Diego,” she wrote.

Rob Weinerth submitted this photo of the yellowtail reeled in while fishing off Malibu on Neptune’s Net