Yellow fever @ the Coronado Islands
Made plans again to fish with jeff "webmaster" aboard his awesome boat the keilani and headed down to san diego to fish in mexican waters at the coronado islands. we launch the boat pick up some bait and head for the fishing grounds.
we pass the islands and tuna pens and finally arrive to crashing birds...a good sign...the bite seemed to be slow and the weather was gray and calm with no current. we chased birds and yoyoed and fast cranked the bottom for no luck mean while fishing a sardine on another rod. we started picking up bottom fish like sculpin
and starry eyed rockfish and finally my reel with the flylined sardine starts screaming i set the hook and the fight was on.
i was using a short penn stand up rod with a penn 501 with 25lb after a short fight i boated this beautiful yellow.
there were tons of boats around some PB's and some charter. look who i found out fishing yellows...the famous rubber ducky.
..nice to meet you guys hope to see you out there again. as the day goes by the bite turns on then turns off....we were anchor up to bait wait and watch all the other boats drive around and chase the fish
heres how close they were drifting to us anchored....can you see the yellow falling off the gaff..that sucks
when ZzZZzzzzzzZZ my reel goes off again....once again i set the hook and the fight was on
...this one fought a lot harder than the first one but was quick work for my short pumps on the stand up rod bam!! got no 2 another 20+lb yellowtail
we sat around for the rest of the day with no more bites and called it a day.
jeff, buddy thanks again...with out you i would have never caught these fish thank you bro..
sorry you didnt hook up, nextime for sure bro...lets do it again soon!
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Originally Posted by Tunaslam
