Cleared the point about 4:30 am w/ 1 1/2 scoops of mixed dines headed for the hidden bank area. Slow going out in the pitch black until grey light, then 20 knts to the area, dirty water until you get atl east 30+miles out. Found a few paddies in the cleaner water and produced 4 small Yellowtail between Bob and Mots, all released. No boats and or much life in the area, so we turn north to the 371, spot a paddie about 8 mi south, which went off th Firecrackers followed by Bob landing an #18 Yellow Fin Tuna
, immediately begin to chum heavy to get the Yellow Fin Tuna going, 3 baits in- BAMM! triple hookup, only all three turn out to be skippiesgunz gunz
Continue to work the paddie for an hour or more with alot of chum, only to get more Yellowtail and skippies
Head to the high spot towards 5-6 boats stopped when I spot a nice paddy all alone
Pull up, kill motor, throw chum and instant triple of the right kind, they were eating the dead chum, and really wanted the small dines on lighter line#15-20 test. next baits out another triple-YEAH! Bob says he has Pig, takes him down to the spool on #15, before he can stop it, meanwhile Mots and land our fish and get more baits out, which are hit by Skippies. Get a few more of those and Bob is still under 1/2 a spool getting worked by his fish
Now he's claiming it's huge- #40 plus
And we say sure, Bullshit get the damn thing in, another ten minutes or so and he has deep color, can't quite tell how big it is, but we are hoping it's 40. Finally gets it to the boat-WTF
It's the same damn sized #20 fish we have been catching, Bob has egg on his face and loses a bet to
Greg
By now, we are way off the paddy and the fish are still w/ us, low on bait we start to chunk skippies and toss the occasional small dine in which gets boiled on every time
Bob and greg pick off one more and I get 2 with one hitting a hot big dine on #30.
Now we are out of bait and and have a small blue eating all the chunksgunz So we pack the cooler and clean the decks to call it a day.
On the way in I spot 2 large fins at 32 20 117 27, thinking, Damn BIG Mako! Fish turns, and when it does Mots and I say" Two makos!" No way!, We motor over closer at idle to see it's no shark, Bob says marlin, Greg and I say" Dude it's a Swordie" This thing had agood 5 foot spread between the dorsal and the fork of it's tail, biggest fish I have ever seen in the ocean, looked to be around 9 feet or so overall, F$#@%ing huge.
Now, we have 1 mostly dead dine left in the tank, and some skippies-whole, we first decide to try a slab of skippie
to no avail, next we tie on the dine to my Tiagra 50 w/ #80 and an 8/0 hook, attempt to maneuver in front of the fish to bait him, getting 1 half-ass attempt before he sinks out
If only we had a mackie in the tank
It was cool just to finally see one, a first for me and Mots. About this time I try to hail Brian on midnightrambler, after getting him, find out they are after a lit-up swordie at the same time! And minutes later we hear another boat also trying to bait one
No go for the midnightrambler, but I am sure they had a thrill too. Bitchen day on the water, few boats, NO wind with a decent swell.
Totals:
10 Yellow Fin Tuna #15-#23 all bait fish
15 Yellowtail #6-8 (2 Kept)
30 + skippies, 15 kept for sharking
1 piss-poor attempt at Big swordie
Didn't troll much to avoid the skipps, Troll bigger jets, small marauders if you don't want to be bombarded w/ skippies.
*** Paddy fishing Note***
We ended up 2 1/2 miles from the start of our drift off the paddy, never once starting the boat to set up a new drift, keep the chum going and the fish should hang w/ you, multiple boats went back to the paddy and we never saw them hookup
Sat 9-27 371 YFT YT And HUGE $@#%&* Swordie 
. I know your tired and all but spill some info bro!!
Linear Mode
