I'd been watching the weather leading into yesterday for a few days, and with the bitchen forecast that was predicted for Monday, and unable to soak a line Sunday due to Mothers Day, I opted to try my like for a San Diego Yellowtail mop up. I thought the warm high pressure would spark a decent bite, at least that's what I thought.
Mondays fishig was slow at best, very mimimal surface activity, and what fish did pop seemed pretty lethargic, with deep slow rolling boils, when we saw one, not frothing around busting aggressively.
We did land 19 mixed grade Yellows, the smallest being about 10lbs, and the largest around 22lbs, the majority of our 19 fish were 15lbs, half hooked on Sardine and the other half on Surface Jigs. We experienced screaming downhill current all day long, and the fish we did mange were all along the shallows, in some cases you could see the bottom where we were anchored.
I signed up thinking it would be a light load, the night before when I checked the reservations I only saw 12 signed up, but ended up with 55 breathers so folks were rubbing elbows and they had some massive tangles. I just tried to stay happy and continued to be bobbing & weaving and never wanted to end up in the clustered zoo of anglers kniting socks with there loose lines. The one thing I will say is when fishing with a lot of anglers with such a strong current, you have to cast off the sides of the boat and walk it down. Casting in the middle of the stern will only contribute to not only tangling yourself but also tangle many others, so cast off the side and then proceed to physically (with your feet) follow your line. Casting in the middle of the stern, over the top of several lines only gets you into trouble. I understand with 55 anglers it's frustrating but working togther to keep from getting tangled will translate into more bites.
Most our fish came late in the day, I landed one of the 19 fish we had, one of the stock 15lbers hooked on a 7x on my Ulua on 50lb, it never took any line so deckhand Renee says "SPIKE, THROW HIM ON!" and it was fun to get some redemption after a long few hours.
A few minutes later I make this long cast and only get two cranks in before a slug yellow blew up on my jig! It began screaming out line and it felt like a hog, I was able to get him coming back to the boat but then again he took a big long screaming run down towards the bottom, I was missing 3/4's of my spool of a Trinidad 30, and where we were anchored you could clearly see the bottom and the fish housed me, say la vee, and that is how our day finished.
Fishing was on the slow side for us, a lot of folks, but still better than a day of work. The crew of the San Diego continue to shine and do a phenomenal job, I have never been on that boat and not caught a Yellow, and for four trips this year aboard that rig I'm up to 11, so I can't complain I've been very fortunate, but I still would have loved to have another chance on that Slug.
Mondays fishig was slow at best, very mimimal surface activity, and what fish did pop seemed pretty lethargic, with deep slow rolling boils, when we saw one, not frothing around busting aggressively.
We did land 19 mixed grade Yellows, the smallest being about 10lbs, and the largest around 22lbs, the majority of our 19 fish were 15lbs, half hooked on Sardine and the other half on Surface Jigs. We experienced screaming downhill current all day long, and the fish we did mange were all along the shallows, in some cases you could see the bottom where we were anchored.
I signed up thinking it would be a light load, the night before when I checked the reservations I only saw 12 signed up, but ended up with 55 breathers so folks were rubbing elbows and they had some massive tangles. I just tried to stay happy and continued to be bobbing & weaving and never wanted to end up in the clustered zoo of anglers kniting socks with there loose lines. The one thing I will say is when fishing with a lot of anglers with such a strong current, you have to cast off the sides of the boat and walk it down. Casting in the middle of the stern will only contribute to not only tangling yourself but also tangle many others, so cast off the side and then proceed to physically (with your feet) follow your line. Casting in the middle of the stern, over the top of several lines only gets you into trouble. I understand with 55 anglers it's frustrating but working togther to keep from getting tangled will translate into more bites.
Most our fish came late in the day, I landed one of the 19 fish we had, one of the stock 15lbers hooked on a 7x on my Ulua on 50lb, it never took any line so deckhand Renee says "SPIKE, THROW HIM ON!" and it was fun to get some redemption after a long few hours.
A few minutes later I make this long cast and only get two cranks in before a slug yellow blew up on my jig! It began screaming out line and it felt like a hog, I was able to get him coming back to the boat but then again he took a big long screaming run down towards the bottom, I was missing 3/4's of my spool of a Trinidad 30, and where we were anchored you could clearly see the bottom and the fish housed me, say la vee, and that is how our day finished.
Fishing was on the slow side for us, a lot of folks, but still better than a day of work. The crew of the San Diego continue to shine and do a phenomenal job, I have never been on that boat and not caught a Yellow, and for four trips this year aboard that rig I'm up to 11, so I can't complain I've been very fortunate, but I still would have loved to have another chance on that Slug.
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