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Offshore Reports Southern California USA Thread, 8/20 Marlin/Dodo/YFT/YT lower 500 in California Fishing; We wraped up the installation of our pilot house Friday night at 9:30 pm and we're off to the coral. ...
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and totally works him...hahahaha My brother spots the first micro patty and we troll past it for nothing. Since we were off to a slow start we decided to do one a with bait. I get the first bait in the water and it just gets slammed. Ron gets bit...Fresh ONe!! lupe rushes for a bait rod and he gets bit too. I get mine up first a rat Yellowtail-release- Ron pulls up a Dodo then Lupe pulls up a dodo by this time I'm one again and I get a dodo. we make another pass and the dorados are going nutz jumping everywhere just for sport, on this pass Ron and I hook and land toad Yellowtail's. We troll for a while till we spot the next patty and we troll passed it and the starboard pole gets Hammered. Rich is on this one and he gets taken around the boat and straight into the fish hold another toad Tail on a mex flag feather. Did a pass with bait for nothing. Get moving and to the next patty and we get into some more Tails, I get bit off, my bro is on again...this time it would turn out to be a Yellow Fin Tuna. We make another pass and Ron...ron is on again for one more toad Yellowtail. The conditions were bad and we where 50 miles out so at 1:30 we start the run in. Lupe is cleaning the deck and duckdiveing a wave or two when possible. 
About ten miles into the run we come across braking dolphin and Yellow Fin Tuna jumpers mixed in. In go Lime green Yozuri's and 100 yards later the port troller gets hammered, this thing was smoking line off the reel. We start the ten count to load up the other trollers and BAM the Starboard trollers gets bit. At this point we're doing the tuna drill slowing the boat, throwing bait and looking for a bait rod. I look at rich and 3/4's of the spool is gone! I grab the other troller and line is melting off the spool. I'm yelling at Ron to get the boat in gear to chase Rich's fish because he down to the Knot and then this huge MARLIN clears air as it goes air borne!!!!YEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!! Thats your fish Rich!!!! a few moments Later My fish jumps and I got one On tooo!!!! Doubles on Marlin on 30# sticks! we're chasing Richs fish and mine is following it then richs fish pops off and my fish goes nutz-. charging straight at the boat and then underneath so I'm hanging over board up to my elbows holding the pole underwater to get around the bottom and from a distance I hear someone "Mark Watch OUt!!!" 
I took a head shot from a wave breaking on me. Drenched from head to toe...Yeeeehaaaw! - I endured 15 minutes of punishment...I wish I could say we landed either of the two stripers...but it was only a matter of time with our outfits. Rich's had a big one in the 180# class and mine was about 120#. what an Insane way to top off the Day. we have some pics of the tails and maybe one of a Dodo...will post later.. We released the dodos as we like to keep the bigger models. Mark
Theres a possibility of BET now as well!!
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