Pez Machine Sportfishing -- 8/11-12 and 8/13 -- Yellowfins and Bluefins

[norter79]

Had an overnighter Monday-Tuesday and headed off to the Lindenkohl canyon.

We trolled from 4pm until dark without a touch despite a decent number of flying fish and squid down deep.

We set up for the chunk on the southwest corner of the lindy but the chunk bite never materialized. At 11pm we hooked and fought a big sword(~200-225lbs) but pulled the hook just under the boat after about 45 minutes.

Just before dawn we had a group of 4 small sailfish chasing baitfish and squid in the underwater lights... we caught one in the dipnet to check it out and snap a picture before letting it go.

On the morning troll we had a couple of shots of small yellowfin, landed three keepers to 30 pounds and released a couple of throwbacks..

Rough ride home into a stiff NW wind.

Here's one of the sails:


8/13/08
We had the Lance Seeton charter out for a bluefin day troll. We left the dock at 1:15am and headed out to 200 feet of water.

We had our first fish on before the sun was up and it wound up being a fat 58" fish.

With the pressure off we went into release mode and ended the day 4 for 5 before the bite shut down at 9am.

Lance had the honors of fighting and releasing our biggest fish of the day, a 150-160 pounder. It was his first bluefin tuna and a mighty tough one at that.

Back to the dock before 2pm, can't complain about that!

The guys on the trip snapped a lot of photos... hopefully they'll see this and send them my way to post up.