reelfinatical

After looking at Reefcast for today & tomorrow, we decided today to be the better day to go - so we finished mowing the lawn and loaded up the boat. We were on the water around noon & rounded thru the pass at 42mph shortly after. Seas were less than 1' and not that windy at all.

First stop was a bottom area near the Miss Louise. Trolled with no hits.

Second stop was the Landing Craft & Janet. There was a lot of patchy weeds. Water temp was 69.7 and 69.3 when the clouds covered the sun in the late afternoon. We were trolling 3 lines - 1 ribbonfish, 1 frozen cigar minnow on a pirate plug, and 1 naked dead cig. First hit was a@$%%#$%$ freeloading remora. We had two more King strikes but missed the hooks both times. All 3 fish were hitting the naked rig.



Got frustrated with the sh*tty bait we had - I guess we bought a bad box of cigar minnows from Justin- they werejust not worth a sh*t to put itgently- when they hit the water they just fell apart - busted from their @$$hole back - disgusting.



We dumped the rest of theworthless bait and came home - we were back on the hill at 6pm and at AJs bar by 7:30 for dinner & drinks..

ReelDuel

do you clip the pec fins off when trolling dead cigs?? and squeze the guts out like you would do on a bally.

d45miller

Kinda looks like what a frozen cig looks like when it's trolled for a while. Might want to try brining some before the next trip. Would probably make them last a little while longer. Hopefully some of the more experienced king fishermen will chime in with better advice. Shouldn't be too long though! Keep the reports coming.

reelfinatical

Nah, we keep them intact. Wetypically brine them the night before but I dropped the ball on that one - I forgot to :banghead. We took them straight out of the freezer to the ice in the fish box. I thought they would be ok, but the pic above is how they looked an hour later. I hadnever seen them do that. :S

reelfinatical

I wanted our first king of '08 so bad yesterday - LOL -I gotta work on being more patient

ditchdoctor81

There's always next time :letsdrink

wirenut

Well atleast ya wet some lines

John B.

you think maybe the cigs were thawed then refrozen???... possibly a power-outage at the bait shop you got them from and the bait thawed???

that's what it looks like to me, bait that was thawed and refrozen

sucks about the remora too.

better luck next time.

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ReelDuel

I usually put a duster in front of a frozen cig. Sea Strike makes a good one. I use the lure the has a v wedge on the front of the lead. I only troll live cigs naked.

reelfinatical

Thanks for the info!! I hope I can get backout there Tues or Wednesday and try it again- I have a freakin corneal ulcer andmy eyestings like a beeeeeech. :-( I have been stuck inside in the dark wearing sunglasses all weekend.NOTE TO SELF: Never fall asleep with contact lens in EVER AGAIN.. :reallycrying I am ready to get this thing healed and go fishing again!!!!!!