Just returned from a last-minute trip.
This was a 2-day trip aboard the Legend sponsored by Freddy AKA Sea Sicario.
Short version, Weather was great, the food was good fishing Sucked!
A buddy of mine was telling me he was going out on the Legend on Sunday for a 2-day and I mentioned next time you plan a trip let me know...well there happened to be a couple of spots left so I looked at the weather and booked it.
Went fairly light for this trip I brought a couple of vipers a centaur, Terminator, and a Calstar 800M to cover all the bases.
Got down to the landing and met up with Freddy and a few others, loaded our gear, and were on our way at 10:am.
It was a fairly light load of 19 people and everyone brought the right setups and all looked like they knew what they were doing.
Went to get bait and Captain Steve came down to give us the game plan.
We're going 26 miles out and fishing sucks!!! This is my kind of guy give it to me straight.
We load up some great-looking bait and away we go.
Within a few hours we were stopping on fish that had no interest in what we had to offer and we hear the captain calls down and said the change of plans we are going to the Banda Bank/Lower finger on some fresh intel.
A nice long 70-mile jog down to that area only stopped on a small paddy and a stop for 2 small BFT on a 25lb fly line.
We arrive at the bank sometime around 8 pm to see New loann, Old Glory, Pacific Queen, and Excalaber all there with us.
The weather was much windier and choppy compared to the glass condition up by the upper tuna pens but nothing too bad for sure.
Well to spare the story from getting too long we worked all night for zero. And we worked it hard with Sinker rigs, knife jigs, Eddie bombs etc.
Sometime in the 8-9 am range all the boats that were down there with us packed it in and headed back north to the same area that we left.
Along the way, we had a couple of kelps that produced 4 small yellowtails and 2 troll fish on the Halco max.
We get back to the area close to nightfall and it was like groundhog day big schools of nonbiting fish.
I decided to hit the sac at 9:30 as I had to go straight to work when we docked.
I still had a great time and no one on the boat was bummed spirits and the fun lasted the whole trip.
I will definitely fish the legend again and the fish count does not do the captain and crew any justice, these guys fish hard!
Sorry, no picks weren't much to take pictures of.
This was a 2-day trip aboard the Legend sponsored by Freddy AKA Sea Sicario.
Short version, Weather was great, the food was good fishing Sucked!
A buddy of mine was telling me he was going out on the Legend on Sunday for a 2-day and I mentioned next time you plan a trip let me know...well there happened to be a couple of spots left so I looked at the weather and booked it.
Went fairly light for this trip I brought a couple of vipers a centaur, Terminator, and a Calstar 800M to cover all the bases.
Got down to the landing and met up with Freddy and a few others, loaded our gear, and were on our way at 10:am.
It was a fairly light load of 19 people and everyone brought the right setups and all looked like they knew what they were doing.
Went to get bait and Captain Steve came down to give us the game plan.
We're going 26 miles out and fishing sucks!!! This is my kind of guy give it to me straight.
We load up some great-looking bait and away we go.
Within a few hours we were stopping on fish that had no interest in what we had to offer and we hear the captain calls down and said the change of plans we are going to the Banda Bank/Lower finger on some fresh intel.
A nice long 70-mile jog down to that area only stopped on a small paddy and a stop for 2 small BFT on a 25lb fly line.
We arrive at the bank sometime around 8 pm to see New loann, Old Glory, Pacific Queen, and Excalaber all there with us.
The weather was much windier and choppy compared to the glass condition up by the upper tuna pens but nothing too bad for sure.
Well to spare the story from getting too long we worked all night for zero. And we worked it hard with Sinker rigs, knife jigs, Eddie bombs etc.
Sometime in the 8-9 am range all the boats that were down there with us packed it in and headed back north to the same area that we left.
Along the way, we had a couple of kelps that produced 4 small yellowtails and 2 troll fish on the Halco max.
We get back to the area close to nightfall and it was like groundhog day big schools of nonbiting fish.
I decided to hit the sac at 9:30 as I had to go straight to work when we docked.
I still had a great time and no one on the boat was bummed spirits and the fun lasted the whole trip.
I will definitely fish the legend again and the fish count does not do the captain and crew any justice, these guys fish hard!
Sorry, no picks weren't much to take pictures of.
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