Hello FNN, this is my first report.
I get a call from Arthur aka Commander Wingnut asking if I wanted to join him and Binh aka Badbeat on a Tuna/Yellowtail hunting trip with Jeff aka Webmaster.
Hell yeah I said, I need to redeem myself for the last time I was out there getting seasick and didn't fish much.
Arthur and Binh picked me up at 1:30am and headed for the launch ramp in San Diego. None of us got any sleep coming off the 4th of July party.
Met up with Jeff and board the Kolo, picked up some bait and off we went.
We spent the first few hours trolling and looking for Tuna with no luck. Metered a lot of fish and seen some Tuna jump clear out of the water but couldn't get them to bite.
Finally, Jeff says let's head for the islands and kill some Yellowtails. Killed them we did, the troll was off the hook. The bite was great with multiple double hook ups. The only bummer was the Seal kept on stealing our fish. Damn Sea Dogs stole three or four big Yellows, lures and all. We try to chase them down to get at least the lure back but those bastards got away. One Seal got the hooks from a Rapala Magnum stuck to its flippers and we were fighting that sucker for about 20 minutes. It finally climbed out of the water onto some rocks and broke us off. We taught that sucker a lesson, lol.
We ended up with a total of twelve Yellowtails. I got my personal best Yellow and Binh caught the biggest one of the trip pushing close to 30 lbs.
We lost quite a few plus the ones the Seal stole. It was a fun day out there with great friends and I really appreciate being included in such a cool group of fishermen.
Jeff, U Da Man bro thanks for everything. Arthur and Binh, thank you for inviting me along, this was the best fishing trip ever!!! Hope we can do it again soon.
Here are some photos, Arthur took most of them. I think Jeff is going to put up a video, good times!
Quang aka ToadHunter
Tuna boils. They didn't want to play today.
But there were plenty of Yellows that's willing.
There were a whole bunch of party boats out there.
One of our double hook ups.
One of the big Yellows got me pinned to the rail, haha
Binh almost got spooled by a Big Yellow.
Jeff got the gaff ready.
Here we are chasing down a Seal.
It finally climbed up on the rocks and broke off.
Bastard!
Thanks for filleting our fish Jeff.
Watering the SWAT Commander's road Beast before the drive home.
Thanks for the Pho dinner Arthur!