Had the Brett Diamond charter, consisting of Bret, 12 year old Joaquim and his GREAT grandfather Lee (both from San Jose, CA) aboard for a half day bottom fishing trip. The plan was to get some fish for a couple of weekend barbecues and we had a window of 7-11AM to get these guys their fish.
Went back to where we caught them Thursday and found some slightly difficult conditions with a W wind against a N current - we weren't sitting right on the hook but we were able to get some bites after a couple shifts and put a few nice seabass in the box. I took a few minutes, dropped a hi-lo in w/ some strings and nailed a beautiful 6# blackfish that of course was released unharmed. Brett also nailed another nice July codfish before we moved to another drop.
The next 2 drops we sat on the anchor and we continued to pick away at seabass and another nice blackfish, but the wind flopped out, and we went on the drift.
Fished 3 more pieces and they all had some life, but the third provided some pretty quick action with bigger seabass to 2#.
We finished the day at 1115 with about 30 seabass in the box to 2#, along with the cod and the blackfish (which were released). Another good morning of bottom fishing locally for a great crew!
(Pics will be posted on Tuesday on the website)
