Had one of my regulars Scott Allison charter the boat today with his daughter Tamara and his buddy Hans. With the NNE wind, we pushed the start time back till 12 noon and made it a PM trip.
When we broke the inlet just past noon we found a beautiful ocean with a 2-3 foot chop. We rode up north and got set up in no time. First few drifts when we had the NNE wind we were catching good, a few keepers as well as a bunch of shorts. Once that wind started dropping out, it seemed we almost lost the bite.
Ran offshore, then back inshore, into a few rockpiles, and only managed a good amount of shorts as well as some seabass with a couple being keepers. I was able to catch a seabass just under 4# (weighed on a certified scale!) on a teaser - we also grabbed a ling on the rough stuff.
Scott also had something BIG grab a fluke he hooked - he got the fish up maybe 5 turns with his bucktailing spinning rod and suddenly something grabbed it and took off - the fish was surfacing but the reel was getting spooled and Scott couldn't turn the fish, after a minute or so, the line broke. Thresher? Could've been.
We went back offshore, saw a GIANT sea turtle, and picked a few more. We then finished the day back inshore with a lot more short action.
It seems we had a load of shorts today, and most of the keepers were just @ 18" with the biggest going 21". Wound up with 7 in the box - great afternoon trip with a fun crew. Back at it bright and early tomorrow
