Phanatic
04-26-2010, 12:31 AM
Today was a very good day. It was me, my usual buddy Donnie as well as Tam who was thrilled to come because he has never used swimbaits before. He told me that all he catches are mackies and he wanted to learn how to catch the better stuff in the water. So I told him grab your trout rod, come along with us and have a good time. It turned out we had a great time. :Big Grin:
We launched the boat out around 6:45-7am. Thanks to the overcast weather, the bite was wide open from the time we launched up until around 12pm when the sun finally came out. We almost had two triple hook ups, but me and Tam lost our battles while reeling in during the hot bite. So we managed to get 3 double hookups instead.
After 12pm the bite dropped exponentially as usual. Swimbaits weren't cutting it for us so we decided to troll the last few hours before we left. We did manage to milk a few more but it was still slow. We caught everything from bat rays, mullets, sandies, spotties, croakers, and a boat load of halibuts!
Here are most of the pictures, but I know we left out a few more. Altogether, we caught around 30 fish. All fish were safely released unharmed. Tam lost like 5-7 battles, I lost 1 battle and Donnie didn't lose any but it was not bad considering it was his first time out with the plastics. I would say the best part of the day was that Donnie only lost 1 jig head where me and Tam didn't replace a single swimbait. :Cool: Enjoy the pics!
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/linh_olindzay/IMG_0975.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/linh_olindzay/IMG_0959.jpg
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We launched the boat out around 6:45-7am. Thanks to the overcast weather, the bite was wide open from the time we launched up until around 12pm when the sun finally came out. We almost had two triple hook ups, but me and Tam lost our battles while reeling in during the hot bite. So we managed to get 3 double hookups instead.
After 12pm the bite dropped exponentially as usual. Swimbaits weren't cutting it for us so we decided to troll the last few hours before we left. We did manage to milk a few more but it was still slow. We caught everything from bat rays, mullets, sandies, spotties, croakers, and a boat load of halibuts!
Here are most of the pictures, but I know we left out a few more. Altogether, we caught around 30 fish. All fish were safely released unharmed. Tam lost like 5-7 battles, I lost 1 battle and Donnie didn't lose any but it was not bad considering it was his first time out with the plastics. I would say the best part of the day was that Donnie only lost 1 jig head where me and Tam didn't replace a single swimbait. :Cool: Enjoy the pics!
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/linh_olindzay/IMG_0975.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/linh_olindzay/IMG_0959.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/linh_olindzay/IMG_0963.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/linh_olindzay/IMG_0964.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/linh_olindzay/IMG_0965.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/linh_olindzay/IMG_0967.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/linh_olindzay/IMG_0969.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/linh_olindzay/IMG_0973.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/linh_olindzay/IMG_0962.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/linh_olindzay/IMG_0970.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/linh_olindzay/IMG_0972.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/linh_olindzay/IMG_0981.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b312/linh_olindzay/IMG_0990.jpg
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