Jared
06-01-2008, 06:08 PM
Woke up at 5:00 a.m. this morning, hoping to get to Newport Dunes by 6 at the latest, but I completely forgot that we still had to fill up on gas. That ended up taking about 15 minutes. Unfortunately didn’t get there until 6:30, but we still had to launch, and get bait. So we don’t get to the bait receiver until 6:50. Finally time to leave the harbor. We leave the harbor and immediately start seeing birds diving and barracuda boiling about 1 mile out. When we get to the spot there is still tones of life around. Once we shut off the motor I start throwing some irons and ended up catching one. My uncle also hooks up, but his comes off. About 10 minutes later they decide to just disappear. We didn’t catch a single fish the rest of the day, but we say lots of birds. But each time we went to go check them out, it ended up just being a bunch of dolphins as far as I could see. Then at around 2 we decide to head back in because we couldn’t find any fish. My barracuda was measured at 38” long.
Total count;
Me: 1 barracuda
My uncle: 0 fish
Total count;
Me: 1 barracuda
My uncle: 0 fish