Had Bill (LavaOB), Doc, and Brian A aboard with Kenny and I this morning for a half-day fluke trip. We left the slip @ 645 and ran south to a local spot where we've been doing pretty good since last Thursday.
First couple of drifts were pretty good - had some nice short life and a few nice keepers right away. Brian nailed a nice 5# on the dot fish on the second drift. As the WSW wind waned, the bite ground to a halt. What was an OK pick became an extremely slow pick.
We bounced around, fished different rockpiles and high spots, and only produced shorts. A lot of the spots that produced keepers and a good quantity of nice fish last week and over the weekend only yielded shorts.
We wound up moving further south, and fished some more piles picking away at more ling on the bucktails and some shorts with a keeper here and there, and a few seabass topped by a beautiful 2#er taken by Brian.
We called it a day just after 12:30 with about 25 fluke landed, only 6 going in the box, as well as 16 ling (again in the 2-3# range) and 1 keeper seabass as well as some others that just missed. Fun day with some good fishermen, the catching part wasn't that good but the guys went home with some nice bags of meat!!
