We had a little bit of leftover northeast wind to contend with this morning, but by this afternoon it had laid out nicely and left a calm ocean and a pretty awesome day. The marlin cooperated offshore again and there was some decent inshore mahi fishing once again too.
Captain Mark Hoos and his crew aboard the Marli had a nice day offshore today with three white marlin releases and a pile of mahi and blueline tilefish for the fish cleaners at Sunset Marina.
Anglers fishing on board Boss Hogg had a great day too with four white marlin releases and a pile of mahi.
Captain Mike Burt of Pumpin’ Hard put his folks on four white marlin releases on today’s trip.
Captain Chase Eberle of Chasin’ Tides Charters had a great day of deep dropping today putting his customers on blueline and golden tilefish and a rare and very big Dory.
Captain Nick Sampson of the WOP continued his cooler filling ways today with a nice catch of mahi, tilefish and black belly rosefish for his folks.
Dave Neumeyer used a Deadly Tackle live bait rig and some big bunker to land this 18.5″ flounder in the West Channel.
Captain Monty Hawkins of the Morning Star kept her headed east this morning and put his folks on a nice catch of mahi.
An unwelcoming NE sea meet us at the mouth of the inlet.
Never trust a NE wind?
Sure.
But dagone, it was only supposed to be 5 to 10 NE. Unfortunately, 10-15 was more like it. The ocean more boistrous than even 15 knots of overnight breeze would have; saw lots of private boats heading west after just a short jaunt east.
Some larger private boats and all charters (near as I could tell) held their easterly heading as did I.
Wind & sea height beginning to ease; Kayden (a skilled angler!) deployed a twelve block unit at Calder’s Reef. We pointed her bow east again.
Our first mahi drop proved to be mahi mayhem for a bit. Skunk off the boat I continued to hunt with (as old man Murphy would have!) limited success – nicked a handful here, a single there. Made a long steam to see if that would help. Found water two degrees warmer still – Liked It – yet went bust on the first drop. The next, however, was our best action so far. A sustained pull.
Next not far away, and with great anticipation – a goose egg.
Expectations now dampened, we had a better pull still on my next stop – a long drift of catching..
And that was it. Seas nearing a calm and current ripping, I made ten more stops – including trying our two best again to see if lightning might strike twice – and, save Ritch’s “Where in the world did that come from?” sea bass, we pulled a zero on all.
Cheryl took everyone’s pool money. Cheryl (perhaps w/Paul’s help – maybe!) was also high hook. An extra 2:15 hours on the day with fish fries around the rail – Works.
Cheers,
Monty
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