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Left the dock at noon on Sat and pointed the bow southeast for our fist offshore trip of the year.
We set lines in at the tip and trolled down the east wall headed to the 100 sq. From the chatter on the radio it sounded like it was a little slow but guys were picking some YFT between 40-60 lbs. My friend Mike and his crew were an hour or so ahead of us and had already been covered up by 4 whites as soon as he had all his lines in so we were very optimistic about having a chance at some pointy fish as well.
We worked down the east wall to just below the elbow when we had our first fish. It was a lone fish that was quickly brought to the gaff….. YAY!!! Skunk off the boat!!!
We worked that area for awhile and didn’t have anything else so we continued on our journey to the 100 sq. About half way from the elbow to the 100 sq we got hooked up with 4 fish but unfortunately we were only able to bring one to the gaff…. We had one of the crimps on our ballyhoo rig fail??? The other two fish ran straight at the boat and came unbuttoned. With two fish in the box we felt good that we had a good spot to spend the night.
We anchored up and stared chunking. I have been working my A$$ off for the last few months with little to no sleep and I woke up at 3 am to open the deli Saturday morning, so needless to say I went to sleep and left the painful process of chunking all night to the crew….. thank God as we didn’t have a touch all night. Some of the boats around us had fish and Mike picked up a pup mako and a baby sword on the chunk…. I think he also has two YFT when he first started chunking.
Up on the troll in the morning working our way out to the mouth…. There were fish being caught all around us but we got no love. We worked our way over to the west wall and dropped down for some tiles to put some more meat in the box and then started our trip back to the barn…. One more stop on a wreck to see if anyone was home and we were greeted with some nice Pollack.
Not bad for only my 3rd fishing trip this year so I would have to say it was a success.
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