Momentum

That right there is an example of intuition and momentum at work. As I always say, when things are going good they tend to keep going good and when things are going.....well you know. So that's a 25 to 1 odds on Matt Kenseth to win the Daytona 500 ticket bought at Caliente, the local sports book...and its mine. It was soooooo exciting, several big wrecks, a collision with a jet dryer that caused the biggest on track fire in Nascar history and at 11:05 Mazatlan time the pole sitter Greg Biffle pushed my guy to victory and 3,250 pesos for the Pro's from Dover...me. And, to set the tone for the race I fished toros all afternoon and was happily surprised with this nice snapper.  Its kind of like casting for humpies and having a 10 pound rainbow take the lure. I don't know how to tell you but I just new I was going to win my bet, MP poo pooed me a bit but I could feel it, we've got momentum.

 I'm so excited I can hardly sleep. Its not like its so much money or that I'm not used to being lucky because I really am...but I'm just not usually lucky with gambling. So I'm in bed at midnight and Slah and Team X are at the house raring to go at 5:30. I tell everybody about the race in about the same time it takes to arrive at 4th point and immediately Slah is on fire. He has 4 corvina on the beach before anyone else has a bite. He's got a white rubber swim fish on and its driving me crazy...I can't get a bite. But somehow being out fished by Slah doesn't make the rest of us feel to bad. I mean its like being Edgar Martinez and haveing trouble hitting Roger Clemons.  Slah attracts a crowd so I slip up the beach 1/4 mile and walla, fish on a 2 ounce Kroc. Theres a school of them right in front of me and I try to  camouflage my success as Slah comes my way. In the course of 30 minutes I've caught 7 or 8 and Slah another 5. Its our best day yet, Team X totals around 30 fish, the bulk of them 'chata' sized corvina, or white sea bass. Here's a pic of me with a pile of them and then our friend Louis with about half of them when they're being cleaned off.

So I pick my lettuce up at Caliente this afternoon and walk right out, resisting the temptation to press the bet. But even though I promised MP another Stone Island day I gotta fish with the team tomorrow, we've got momentum...a natural law of physics. ' Objects in motion tend to stay in Motion'. We're all feeling good, friendships, fellowship, understanding and sharing, new people, original people, nationals, gringos, introverts and characters.....Team X.

And oh, tomorrow I'm furnishing breakfast for the guys, fish of course. I've got smoked red salmon bellies, 1/2 dozen cans of  a really nice tuna ensalada made here in Maz. A couple cans of sardines in tomato sauce, some fresh tostados with mayonnaise and some fresh fruit....wish you all could be here.

And theres the guys this morning, the buffet is set on Slah's jeep. My friends went crazy for the smoked salmon like I knew they would. Ern had the hot hand with 4 corvina....and.....mmmmm....my momentum shifted. But thats OK, the next best thing to fishing the beach and catching is fishing the beach and not catching.