Had Bill P, Doc, Larry "hartattack", Steve R, Rich, and Scott A aboard for a fluke trip today.
Ran north again. Started where we had them a bit last Friday and found a few fish, not a whole lot of life though as we had a W wind and a N current -- real slow drift... Ran a little further north, and found a little better life and we boated a few keepers in there while dropping a good fish. Also had some seabass.
We then ran off to the E and Steve immediately boated a nice 5# fish, but that was it. A few wiggles, then a move further offshore resulted in a couple of shorts and another pig that was lost half way up. Oh well!
S wind started coming on, so we headed south. I set up on a rockpile off LB that has been very good to me and my anglers in the past and it certainly didn't disappoint today. First few drifts we picked a few off, with a couple going in the box. After we worked it over, it dried up, so we went offshore a bit and found some more life on a high spot. Drift was VERY fast, 1 kt + as we had a S current and a S wind together but there was an OK pick of mostly "quality" shorts in the 17 to just under 18" range, with a few keepers mixed in. Doc got his redemption out there boxing a beautiful 7# fish on an 8 oz. bucktail.
By 3PM the drift everywhere was insanely fast with the hard S wind coming on, so we made our way home.
These guys worked their asses of for their fish today. I believe everyone wound up with at least 1 keeper and Doc led the way with 3. We wound up with 7 or 8 in the box topped by the 7#, and Steve's 5# was a close second. The rest of the keepers were in the 18-21" range. We also wound up with 5 keeper seabass.
This was another "grind" of a day as we spent 8+ hours fishing slugging it out with again tough conditions, heat, and what seems to be a body of fluke that do not want to chew on a daily basis. We need some W winds and a fresh breath of life in this fishery to get it going again!!! Thanks to the guys for coming down, some great ball-busting as usual and some nice fillets going home at the end of the day!
