He is one tough rascal.

Egghead your pole is a magnificent piece of work. It is everything I was looking for except I caught exactly 0 fish with it. This photo is of Anchor Bay Cove, a fairly easy walk to to the water and then probably a mile or so of beach like this. The new reel and Egg's rod I was whipping it out there pretty good, the rip was taking it to my left, so I'd let it drift down, then reel in and throw out again. I's gettin into it pretty good, so I walked a little ways out into the foam and really put my shoulders into it, lost my balance, fell on my left side, wrenched the back and worst of all, the reel blew up. Braided backlash. Holy crap. But the rod was okay. Could have been much worse. So I try to get to my knees, I think I cracked a rib (feels like it) I'm struggling to get up, and this gorgeous young thing in running shorts and a bikini top asks if she can help me. That's her in the second photo, before all this happened. Anyway, I got my fat ass up and moving, walked back to the car and got a different set up (spinning) and went back down with folding chair and parked my butt for a while - I finally did get a bite on a sand crab and it was something bigger than I was equipped to deal with and it broke my line - lost my hook and my 12 pound fluoro leader - probably a ray. So no perch. ? I was fishing at the top of the tide and as it was coming in I could see crab "tracks" everywhere, and they're pretty easy to catch so you'd think there'd be perch. Nope. Hobbled back to the car and we left. Went to our room and licked my wounds. Next day we went up to Gualala and fished around there by the pier. Maybe a half dozen other folks there fishing but didn't see anyone catching. I'm not a huge fan of pier fishing. I moved down to the rocks where I proceeded to lose a bunch of sinkers. There's a couple of pictures of the California coast, and that's what most of it up here looks likes, a shot of mrs spirit wondering where her lunch is and the last is the view at sunset from our room.

Hey, no fish, but we had a great time. We'll go again.