decided to head out on the spitfire for my friends last trip of the summer. got to the landing around 530, the boat headed out around 630 with 30 or so people. was hoping there would be less like last Monday's count, but oh well. the boat got to the spot at Catalina around 930, 10 am, Calicoes, upon calicoes galore! to bad almost 90 percent were short. on the first 2 spots almost every cast ill get a short. wasn't until the 3rd that i finally got a legal. there were some shouts of "YELLOW!!!! OVER THERE GETIM!!!" my friend and i started to get extra tired of unhooking short calicoes, plus our thumbs were starting to lose their skin from the calicoes sharp lil teeth. so we decided to go bottom and landed a few sheephead. in the end it wasn't so bad. well actually i guess it was bad because i checked the counts for the redondo special and they beat the spitfire for calicoes, sad.. Never Spitfire or any 3/4 again if im going for fish which i can get locally.
our tally for keepers
my count: 1 sheephead, 1 calico, 1 rockfish and one BAD sunburn
friend 1: 2 sheephead
friend 2: 4 calicoes