Ol Pedro
11-05-2024, 09:10 AM
Left the dock at nine pm to bumpy cold conditions. Anchored up around 3:30 after looking around for a while. It was a little sporty on deck as the weatherman was wrong again. Caught a squid and fished it through magic time without a bite. The bite didn't happen so Capt. Bob made a move to the east. We set up for a drift as the conditions started to improve. Had a pick going with lots of bird life and some porpoise. I was snake bit and wondered why. I had brought an ice chest that I left in the truck did that jinx me? I never seem to catch good when I bring something to put fish in. Should I downsize my leader/rods ? I decided to change setups on the next drift. We moved back to redrift through the same area. I dropped down to my Fathom 40 /Ocean Master 60lb set up. By now we had half the Shearwaters in the ocean around us trying to eat any bait/chunk they could get to. We were seeing tuna boiling and in the slick. It was starting to happen ! Had a strange pickup, locked it up, and ping bite off. Re rigged ran it almost to the backing. Had a runoff, locked her up, and fish on ! Had a lot of line out and gained it back quickly. Thinking that I had another 30 yards to go I went to look for color but the fish was right there! Joe stuck it and over the rail it came. A 25-30 pounder that broke the hex. Got back in the game and hooked up again on the long soak. This fish was a little better getting into the backing. It moved to the stern and settled down. I had it at a stalemate and dropped her in low. Continued to gain. Got color and we started the dance. I gained a couple cranks on the outside of the circle every time it turned back. The fish got a little squirrely at ten feet. Pushed up the drag ,regained the head, and Stevo stuck it. This one was 60ish. Took a water break, re rigged, and jumped back in the game. dropped my Sardine next to the boat. Got down around ten feet and saw a tuna engulf my bait. It headed towards the stern, with me in hot persuit, reel screaming. As I hit the corner the line parted. All too soon it was time to go. The weather was calm all the way home.
I would like to thank Captain Bob, James, Joe, Caden, and Stevo for doing such a good job as always.
We caught on everything. All my bites came on Sardines. 50-60lb leader seemed to get bit more. 1 to 4 ozs of lead worked when you could get it past the Shearwaters. There were some jigfish . We lost way more fish than we should have. Customers tackle was suspect in a lot of instances. Too lite, not serviced, drag fiddling, and bad knots.
My Fathom 40 performed flawlessly. That combo is a fish killer.
I hate Shearwaters !!! Those bait stealing line tangling little pirates ! We had to release quite a few. Had one tear up my hand while I unwrapped its wing. The little sh#t drew blood.
There's still a lot of warm water and fish around so I'm thinking that this will go through November weather permitting.
I would like to thank Captain Bob, James, Joe, Caden, and Stevo for doing such a good job as always.
We caught on everything. All my bites came on Sardines. 50-60lb leader seemed to get bit more. 1 to 4 ozs of lead worked when you could get it past the Shearwaters. There were some jigfish . We lost way more fish than we should have. Customers tackle was suspect in a lot of instances. Too lite, not serviced, drag fiddling, and bad knots.
My Fathom 40 performed flawlessly. That combo is a fish killer.
I hate Shearwaters !!! Those bait stealing line tangling little pirates ! We had to release quite a few. Had one tear up my hand while I unwrapped its wing. The little sh#t drew blood.
There's still a lot of warm water and fish around so I'm thinking that this will go through November weather permitting.