Went out to Santa Rosa Island with my good friend Martin “the looper” aboard the “Big Drum”. The weather conditions in the morning were great but it got a little snotty in the afternoon with consistent wind speeds between 13 & 15 knots.
We decided to forgo fishing for Rockfish and opted to try and catch a big Halibut or two or three. We drift fished for a little while, but mostly employed did the bounce ball technique.
While drift fishing with frozen squid, Martin pulled in his personal best Whitefish at 27 inches/7.5 pounds. Way to go Martin!! That’s a nice poor man’s Yellowtail.
After bounce balling for a couple hours, I finally hooked a nice fish, and it turned out to be my personal best Halibut at 48 inches/ 33.5 pounds. Sweeeet!!
When we were driving back to port, we were stopped by 4 DFG wardens aboard their impressive aluminum cat “Swordfish”, about 1.5 miles east of Gull Island. They checked our licenses, fish and then informed us that they could’ve given us a ticket for not having our fishing rods stowed away in the cabin because we had driven through a marine preserve with the rods in the rod holders. I told them I wasn’t aware of that law and said that next time I’ll be sure to drive around the closure area.
Had another memorable fishing trip out on the big pond, I can’t wait to do it again. HOOK-UP!!
Till next tide,
At least they only warned you about their pathetic law.
In the text Martin sent me that flattie looked like it was over 50!! I almost shat myself when I saw it 
Congrats on the PBs guys
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