Kristen and I headed out to watch the OC Air Show from the boat this afternoon and did a little fishing while we were out there. It was a beautiful day on the water and we’ve never seen so many boats in the bay or nearshore ocean. It was certainly crowded, but everyone was well behaved and enjoyed an awesome show and some decent fishing. The tog and sheepshead didn’t cooperate for me, but Kristen did catch some blowfish that ate shrimp on our Deadly Tackle Hi-Lo Rigs.
After our fishing trip I got a call from my sister’s boyfriend Shaun who had just returned from a trip aboard Talkin’ Trash with Captain Chris Little telling me he thought they might have a new state record blueline tilefish. I got in contact with my DNR buddy Erik Zlokovitz and the guys from Crabs to Go to set up a weigh-in and we weighed and measured the fish at about 5:30. The huge blueline was 37.25″ long and weighed in at 20.6 pound and broke the old state record of 20 pounds even. Angler London Anthony caught the big tile on Talkin’ Trash using a chunk bait. The state record will be considered “pending” until the paperwork is submitted and approved. Congratulations to London and the crew of Talkin’ Trash.
Captain Chris Mizurak reported that fishing was good for some and slower for others, but they still managed a nice catch of sea bass and some flounder on board the Angler today.
Captain Monty Hawkins of the Morning Star had a good day at sea with beautiful conditions and a combination of mahi and sea bass for his folks.
Another calm in a good string of em.
Nice..
Theresa & Brad made today’s pyramid drop at Capt. Bob Gowar’s Memorial Reef. A big reef still growing: there are three Iron Lady loads of 110 tons precast concrete each, 4,670 reef blocks, 131 pyramids or so, the Tug “Steve’s Way” – Capt Bob’s Barge and an as yet unnamed tug.
In between the barge and first tug is about 55 feet of bare sand. That’s what I have been targeting of late with pyramids made by Bear Materials up in DE – am trying to stitch all those reef pieces together.
Won’t take many more for that task. There are, however, many more places to fill or simply add too.
Mahi fishing sure looked to be another bust. At 11:30 we had a few nice sea bass and no green beauties.
Ol man Murphy had a chuckle when I announced I’d be focused on cbass the rest of the day – not two minutes later the first mahi was in the air.
Though a peanut there was an inshore jumbo bull with her. (inshore jumbo would be hidden under ice by my offshore friends..)
I recanted my announcement and pressed on with a mahi hunt.
We’d nick a few, draw a blank, pick a few. When time to go in? ..I headed further east.
Worth it too. At last we had a steadily improving bite; then a taste of mahi mayhem – lots of fish on at once! Now with my client’s expectations sky high, Murphy must have about died laughing. We caught no more after the blitz.
Too close to call, Craig & Gruve split the pool.
Sea calm as a pond; paddling on in I hear – “Whale!!”
Directly on my six were two glorious fin whales. Big boys.
Almost ..but not quite late enough for the Coast Guard to start looking for us, I turned east again – this time for sight seeing.
And what a show. Took a while, but the next time they surfaced it was just feet off my bow. Everyone stunned in awe – no pics!
But coming up again cameras were ready.
Sweet.
Not late enough apparently; we also saw a humpback just two miles offshore. Another nice photo op, he came up three times before giving us the tail.
Left 30 min early, came in 2.5 hours late. Couple hours of overtime surely made all the difference today. .
I’d do it again.
Cheers,
Monty
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