Headed out Saturday with Big Jerry and my little sister, who had never been offshore fishing before. Hit the end of the rocks around 5:30 am along with probably more boats than I can remember. And for the first time no container ship, now that I think about it.
Jerry wanted to go deep (deeper than we usually go) and so we set a course in a nice ocean for the ammo dump and had lines in the water in 400ft at a little before 8am., and started trolling out towards deeper water with little sister at the helm.
We picked up a slinger on the small WWB cedar plug and lost a huge fish (Dolphin?) along with a blue and white ilander with an odd line cut above the leader. Wasn’t cut like a razor (wahoo style) … We are still not sure what it was or exactly what happened.
Then we lost a nice dolphin that performed a self-release about 75yds behind the boat.
Finally we hit a sweet spot in around 1100 ft of water where we had a few fire drills in the span of about 45 minutes as we kept circling back around the marked point. There were a bunch of boats out there doing the same thing it seems. Scattered weeds and lots of life. It was lot for Jerry (a fishing machine) and I to handle while little sis was figuring out how to maneuver the boat.
At one time we had a small school of really nice dolphin that were hanging around the boat and the nice fish we left in the water. But by the time we got our act together to pitch baits, the fish we had in the water had performed a self-release and was gone along with the school. Frustrating but cool nonetheless.
The fish seemed to like blue and green (especially a green lure Jerry had been given by cousin George)as well as Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy.
The bite stopped for us around 11:00 and we headed back at 12:00 as usual for a solid half day of fishing. We finished with 8 dolphin, 6 of which were in the 15-25lb range.
My sister got to reel in a couple and got