California Dreaming

July 2008 

Yep, it bolted and took some line out. I bent my knife in its head,

man they are tough. I was on scuba and when I shot it, I went for the

surface. Then I realized I was on scuba and I could follow the line and subdue it. It all happened so fast that I barely had time to look at it. You know, I have been imagining my whole life what a monster ‘Butt’ would look like. When I saw it, I could not believe it. It was lying on the bottom, no sand on top, and its head was pointed toward me. All I thought was shoot shoot shoot as fast as possible. Yes, Mr. Scully, the human Steele lung went. He got a 52# WSB and a bag o scallops.

Dr. Steele was in awe of the butt. He said he had never seen one that big and if he did he would have had a heart attack. I nearly did.