I did not make a post for the past few days since I was waiting for some pics to come. We took some with my camera but the battery was dead. Go figure. Anyway, the inshore trolling for bonita and blues to 3 lbs is excellent. Wehn there is no drift, we fish them and when we hook up, small jigs on spinning gear work well. These blues are just the right size, from 12-18" and a blast on light tackle. The bonitas are very nice sized as well. When the drift is on, flounder have been snapping with a lot of shorts and some nicer fish as well. The inshore sea bass spots have been beat up by about everyone, but we do have a couple of spots that yield some keepers. Sunday we ran off toward the Wilmington at 1:00 A.M. We got to our spot just before daybreak and the sign was all over. Bait, marks down deep, porpoises, yep, we figured that we were in business. NOT! I trolled out to the west notch, across the canyon, up the east wall, around the tip, to 4 miles above the tip and inshore 11 miles. I figure that we trolled probably 45 miles. We had 1 small YFT and missed 3 more and so I stayed for a couple extra hours. Between 2 and 3:00 P.M., we hooked up and boated a 35 lb YFT, made a turn and caught and released a very nice White Marlin, and had dolphin as well. Of course, the wind was non-existent and we found some water up to 83 degrees inshore. The best tuna fishing seemed to be from 50 fathoms in and some guys up the line around the 40 fingers had some fish as well. I believe that this storm will do us a load of good and the fishing should be excellent after the seas calm down a bit I'll post some pics as soon as they get here. Meanwile, here is one from last Monday.
I still have a few days and some half days open so feel free to give a call and let's go fishing.
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