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Well trip started off rough. 3 places for ice, all closed or not working, ended up towing the beast all over town in the middle of the night. Finally in the water and leaving the pass around 3:30am seas were on the rough side 3-4 with the occasional 1-2. Winds were all wrong until about 5pm. We headed for the Ocean Americas, GONE. Ram, Horn, Petronius, all had life but no real action. Ended up putting out a spread (a killer one at that by bellafishin) and started round the rig, almost every pass yielded some blacks but again no real action. Finally the 50w goes off and everyone says you can reel this blackfin in. So I grab the rod set the hook and it halls but straight down. Ended up being a 40lb+ yellow fin. Not the biggest but we made it happen.
We hit up another shallow rig for some ajs and hooked some monsters! These things were breaking 80lb braid it was awesome. The day was topped off with a Grey Whale surfacing port side of the boat. Stayed around for about 1 min and sounded to the bottom. Awesome, what a site to see, truly a beautiful creature. The ride back in was as flat as it gets.
O yea, did I mention I left my bag with my sunglasses, gloves, hat, camera and ipod in the truck. I think one of the guys had a iphone and got a few pics. I'll try to post them. Hate posting without pics but with the thurs/fri post I felt I needed to. Just as the wise team of Recess says, "you never know unless you go". Thanks for reading.
We hit up another shallow rig for some ajs and hooked some monsters! These things were breaking 80lb braid it was awesome. The day was topped off with a Grey Whale surfacing port side of the boat. Stayed around for about 1 min and sounded to the bottom. Awesome, what a site to see, truly a beautiful creature. The ride back in was as flat as it gets.
O yea, did I mention I left my bag with my sunglasses, gloves, hat, camera and ipod in the truck. I think one of the guys had a iphone and got a few pics. I'll try to post them. Hate posting without pics but with the thurs/fri post I felt I needed to. Just as the wise team of Recess says, "you never know unless you go". Thanks for reading.