Morning folks!
Sorry its taken so long to get these updates done. Late nights, and busy days have really slowed this part down a bit. However we are here now and giving updates!
Thursday:
Not much to tell here. Lonny and I hit the water pretty early and spent most of the day fighting the undertow and wind. Needless to say that day we caught a couple fish, but nothing to keep. That was a bust day.
Friday:
A different story altogether. Lonny and I went out caught a bunch of herring, while we waited to see if Jim and Carroll was going to able to make it. In the end they did and a good thing too, they brought us some much needed good luck! I caught the first fish of the day, just as the tide was starting to turn. It ran straight for the rocks of course, but I was ready for it and muscled him out of them before he got set. He fought me the whole way, in the end he was netted and in the boat, and measured out at bit over 32 inches. Shortly thereafter Lonny hooked into his fish, which also put up a nice fight. His guy came it at 31 inches. Pretty much after we got Lonnys fish in the boat the tide was atrocious, so we tried another one of our little spots. This is the area we have had fish on but always lost them for one reason or another. Today however was a 50/50 split. I hooked into another fish and handed it off to Jim, that fish was a fighter! After a few minutes of a fight, the monster rose from the depths. WOW what a Ling, unfortunately though, some malfunctions came into play and eventually the fish swam back to the depths. My guess was he was 36 inches if not more. Sad pandas all around for the loss of that one. We reset our drift hoping that the same fish would be gullible enough to take another bite, but no such luck. I did however hook into another one, which I handed off to Carroll, “its just a little one” she kept saying. Granted it didn’t give her much of a fight, but when it got to the surface and we got it netted, it measured out at 28 and change inches. Hey Carroll, not so “little” after all =D. That was pretty much it for the day, and a long day it was. You can see the fishes in the video later.
Saturday:
Was a heartbreaker. Mathias and Elijah went out on the boat with us. Elijah was kickin butt catching the herring and was having a ball doing it. Mathias was of course helping just a little, but for the most part the little guy was casting and catching on his own with the herring rig twice his size! The herring weren’t in droves, but what we did catch were quality. Nice size and meaty which is better than a bunch of small fry. Tides did not play nice at all that day, when the tide turned it got ugly in a hurry. I caught 1 baby Ling just before the tide did change, which was it for me that day. We decided to run over to the place we caught some fish the day before and try our luck there. Not much over here today, some nice hits, and few takes that the fish ended up winning. The heartbreaker for the day though goes to Lonny. We are drifting along when he hits what he thought was a snag. Gives it a jerk, and starts to reel up. Holy crap his rod is bent waaaaaay over. I look over and it looks like dead weight. He is heaving it up and it is heeeeeeeeeeavy, making his rod bend double. I look back over and asked him if it was fighting back at all. He was about to say no, when the rod bend even further over and the line starting to sing. That answers that question, not a big hunk of barnacles after all! A good 5 minutes roll by and we finally get a look at whats on the line. HOOOOOOOOOOOOLY CRAP! Monster alert, *Sirens start to blare* *people start running for cover*. Mathias grabs the net and like the amateur that he is tried to swipe at it from overhead. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Lonny and I yell at the same time. UNDER the fish NEVER OVER. At that point I tell him to come back take my rod and reel it in and I will take over net duties. Luckily when he touched the fish with the net it immediately bolted back toward the depths. Now Lonny has to heave her back up. She resurfaces I get my swoop on and in the net she comes. Once in the boat we notice how she is hooked. Not in the mouth at all, but right on top of her head. We guess she took a swipe at the passing bait, missed and when it hit her head Lonny jerked about that time. Now the heartbreaker. We measured her out and she wouldn’t even fit on our measuring decive, which is set up for 36 inches exactly which is the max size we are allowed to keep. She was flopping over by a good 1 1/2 inches if not a little more. It was a hard thing to do, but back over she went to frustrate another angler on another day. So at this point Lonny has hooked and landed the largest fish of the year. Here is the proof…
She was a beautiful fish and the head on her was humongous!
Last but not least here is the Video that was taken of some of the days. The video for Saturday is only half an update. We got in a rush and forgot to film the end of the day part. That’s how it goes sometime though, life happens =).
That’s it for now, thanks for stopping by!
Until next time, “F.O.B”