I was hoping to get Jscrib out on the boat, but he ran into some family issues and couldn't make it. It was so late, already that I just hit the sack and decided to figure it out in the morning.
I got a late start and didn't drop the boat in until 6:00am. It wasn't until 7:00 when I realized there was no bait around and I had to make a decision. Dave gave me some intel to the south that had a bunch of yellows last week, but the counts didn't reflect that the night before so I was flip flopping on what to do.
I decided to make the run and only had artificials to work with. I saw a lot of spread out boats and most people were fly lining sardines. I kept away from the pack and began with trolling the Rapala and a River2Sea deep diver. The River2Sea lure was the bomb and I crushed them all day on it.
They weren't big, all 5 to 8 pound fish on average, but I couldn't believe the quantity!
They crushed the River2Sea and totally left the Rapala alone!
They messed it up bad!
After catching a dozen, I switched up to the Tady 45 and got 3 more! Next I put on a Salas 7X and finally got one, but it took a while so I switched up to a megabait on the bass rod and got another one!
Bad Rapala!
Good Crank Bait!
The sun came out strong and I decided to call it the day early! In 3 hours I somehow got maybe a persona best 17 yellows! Nothing big, but two went 10-12 pounds. I kept 7 as a few early ones I kept were just at the 24" fork length and I didn't want to chance it by keeping too many. I had plenty of meat to clean when I got home anyway so was extremely happy. I wish I got a video of me throwing all those yellows back! i don't think I ever would have imagined myself doing such a thing and I caught them all on artificial!
Well, it was great getting back in my driveway by 12:30! I passed a bunch of boats in Point Loma, but decided to not even stop. Later on I heard there was a really good bonito bite there as a buddy got a half dozen nice ones!
It's great seeing the local action going off and still amazed at hearing all of the BFT chatter at the islands. A few friends got their limits today and it was pretty killer to hear. I need to get my Mex Visa!
Well, a fabulous weekend for sure!
Until next tide! (And don't look at the sun/Eclipse today!) LOL
