13 miles miles short of the E. Fly 9/3

[johnybass]

9/2

Got to E. B. at 4am Got the best bait I've seen all year, overstuffed our bait tanks and didnt have a single bait roll.

Found a paddy on the way to the fly on the 302. Dorado all over the whole thing. I saw 40 lb. fish swimming under the boat all lethargic looking and slow. We got picked up twice on bait over an hour span. Left our sardine with their heads on. They would take it and let it go.

We diecided to look for another and as we're pulling away from the paddy. We just leave the boat in gear as I update our course to the E. fly on the g.p.s. and my very wise colleauge left his bait in the water as we pull away. The fish missed the bait the first time and came back and smacked it again, each time it came out of the water. One 15 lb. Dorado landed.

Tried the slow troll again, got picked up in about 1 minute, another Dum Dum for the boat. Slow trolled around the paddy for another 15 minutes for nothing.

We started a run more west and came up on freeswimming and boiling dorado about a half mile away from the paddy. Got right on em, threw bait and the iron on frothing dorado and they wouldnt even sniff what we had.

Then about 10 mile west of the 302 we run into what looks like breaking yellowfin. Tricky fuckers, we got about 50 yards off at a slow pace and they sink out fast, only to show up on the surfce about a half mile away.
Happened a half dozen times, so we troll the area, feathers, cedar plug, yozuri, for nothing. We heard no love at the fly so we just trolled and looked,
heading west.
We turned around, worked back, found a second paddy for no fish holding.
We found 2 paddies today, covered 100 miles of offshore water. We mad a man on the bridge at all times.

Anyways, had to hit La Jolla on the way in. Stopped for a short lap, took 2 yellows, and caught and released numerous cuda, bass, bonito, and a giant mackeral on the slow troll.
Slow fishing but we had plenty of beer, bait, daylight, and wasabi.

We heard of yellowfin just west of the islands, and dorado on kelps really close to La Jolla, some I heard were caught in 80 feet of water.

Dorado on the 302 came from 69.2-3 degree water, and i saw yellowfin, maybe skippy in 68.5-6 degree water.

Rob

[JWALK]

Thanks for the report. How was the water? I heard it was rough out there today.

[johnybass]

It was mixed, but not that bad, sometimes flat, sometimes a little bumpy. Heard it was snotty over 60 miles. It saya 9/3 on the thread starter but it was actually the 2nd.

[Tunaslam]

Another world out there, with wind or no wind, go figure. Congrats on the Do Do.

[bl8erater]

Nice Dodo Rob. Hope to get you back out there soon for some more luck. Jay

[johnybass]

lol, fuck off Jay!!!

[kepdawg]

Nice fish, I took the liberty to spell check and-------
Not really, just made it so the picture shows up in the post.
Good job.