Waterpup

Met up with fellow poker player and fisherman Warren and his buddy Chris at 11:00pm Tues, loaded the boat, fueled up, hit the water about 12:30AM.

Got a fatty scoop of squid from LBBC and made tracks for the squid grounds at Catalina. The ride over had some nice sized rollers coming through and a little bumpy at times but overall wasn’t too bad. Something did go bump in the night but we were only doing 10MPH so all was good with the outdrive and we kept going.

We rounded the east end, no moon very dark shrouded in a haze, wind in the face and swell coming in. No radar, wasn’t comfy and didn’t have mommy with me to make me feel comfortable so we headed to back to the front to wait for light.

On the front side at light we had a steady pick of as many calicos you wanted. Virtually every cast. But that wasn’t what we wanted to we headed to the back side again. Due to weather and my mommy not being there I decided against the west end and went east.

Once again we made the turn expecting to see many other boats lined up. All we saw was the Phantom at the Vs and down the line a row of squid boats and a couple of PBers off Silver Canyon. I decided to stop at a spot at the Vs where I had caught the first YT and WSB on my current boat but Tino had other plans. As I made tracks to the spot he apparently had the same idea and jetted inside himself. It looked like he was pulling anchor on the outside of the kelp and probably had already planned to be there, no harm as we pulled in on the other side of the kelp.

First bait out I had a bite that went zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzPOW. Nice fish that wasn’t stopping on my 30lb rig. Next up was a shovelnose, mud marlin, another mud marlin, MOVE. By this time the Phantom had moved too so I know that spot wasn’t working out.

We head down to Salsipuedes and work our way back for a lot of nothing, back to the front for more nothing. Head home at 2:00pm in a lot of wind and chop. In bed at 7:00Pm