Half-Day local Yellowtail fishing

[etucker1959]

The first thing I want to say is,"it's about time!" lol For this adventure I'm not going to name the boat because they did a couple of things I didn't like. What is to like is, we've got decent Yellowtail and Bonito fishing just a few miles off of the Long Beach breakwater. (I'll make this short to keep Seal happy!) lol

These are ok size fish, 9-12lbs Yellowtail and 3-6 pound Bonito. They get the boat stopped by trolling for them or drifting on meter marks. Here is the strange part, there were at least 50% of them were taken on surface iron! They will eat bait but the big sardines were crap! I fished bait most of the day and only hooked 2 Yellowtail. Other's who fished Iron hooked 3-5 Yellowtail. (so I was a little behind the curve) We had 31 Yellowtail landed for 28 passengers.

One of the things that got me was the Jackpot. (I don't normally go in them and I know why) They declared at the end of the day, the Jackpot went to the crew! What are they saying? It's rigged! If we don't like the person who going to win the Jackpot, we just declare the Jackpot goes to the crew! Next crew members who ask's me that question, "do you want to enter the Jackpot?" I pity the fool! lol