Toronado 10-19-2013
buddy John got married. few of us got together to celebrate his last fishing day ever!
hit up the toronado leaving friday night fishing saturday. 14, ultra limited load, with 5 or so crew members. my group consisted of 5 of us, 2 were complete newbies, first cattle boat ever, and 1 was on his first overnighter ever.
met up at 8 pm, boat left the dock around 9. the dreamer had a good float going at cat so we scooched on in and had a nice go at the bait filling up all the tanks and then some in less than 20 minutes.
and off to clemente.
we hit clemente by 5 am and we were fishing the cove at dark and gray bite with little to show. by 9 am we had only 1 cuda and 1 bonito landed. Morale was pretty low.
then at 9 am Earl the pearl hooked up and landed the first Yellowtail of the trip. a small 7lb ish yellowtail but that was all the hope we needed. all the lines went back out and then the bite went WFO!
couldn't keep the lines in the water! It was as wide as it gets for about a half an hour and then just like that, the bite shut off. we had a couple other goes going with 2-5 hanging but nothing like that first half hour.
i was running around untangling my buddies' lines and re rigging and hook & passing but still managed to land 4 schoolie size yellows. the other 4 buddies were able to deck 1 each so all in our group caught at least one!
super stoked about the newbies getting yellows. 2 of them had them passed by me and a fellow passenger.
about the crew, chowder in the galley makes the best Breakfast burrito you'll ever get on a moo moo. imho.
didn't like how one of the deckhands fished the whole time though. At one point he was the one and only solo hook up and there were people on the boat who hadn't caught one. people were yelling at him to pass it, but he posted up in the bow and brought the fish in himself. I don't see that normally in san diego overnighter trips. I was talking to a deckhand on the new lo an the other day who said he's still never caught a bluefin in his life because the captain doesn't allow the crew to land one unless every passenger has landed one. fortunately, a paying passenger who works as a deckhand on the chief hooked and passed to the last member of my group who hadn't landed a yellow. hats off to him!
other than that the trip was top notch! yellows in october, what more could I ask for?!?
wicked float!
great weather!
three heart eaters
as good as the season ever was!!
his fishing days are over!
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If you say anything about this on some other sites the folks always tell you to go purchase your own boat. I do not agree since most trips on over nights, 1 1/2 day or 2 1/2 day trips can cost up to $500.00 with food, fish cleaning & tips. Every one is a jerk if they do not tip! Should you tip the deck hand fishing when the deck hand should be helping the paying customers (dumb newbies)
Win the jackpot and give the money to the crew that was fishing when they should be doing customer service, 
Just my thoughts
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Originally Posted by Ifishtoolittle
