Took the BlackJack out Sat night, tank full of Candyand in a pretty stiff wind heading towards SCI....bumpy ride so we decided to be true "private boaters" and head to the backside of CAT for a BBQ of Carne Asada and try for some WSB...backside of CAT was relatively calm, quite a few squidders but pretty much quiet alongside the backside...No luck on WSB, but the bbq was tasty and the wind died down...off to SCI...
The island was closed until 5 am so we slowly headed out to the backside where all the sporties were..not much luck, rough weather and uphill current coupled with a 3.5 degree temp drop in the water, so we decided to go for some fish in the kelp by horseshoe cove...good call as we picked a ton of Calicos, a Yellowtail and CK hooked a monster WSB or Yellowtail, which wrapped itself in 1/2 dozen kelps and to top it off, I RAN OVER THE LINE, SNAPPED IT OFF and was almost thrown off my own boat...gotta take boating w/fish 101
....the final tally was some large Calicos (released) and a firecracker...
Wind picked up, went to front side area and around 11:30 the isle basically erupted...the fish would not TOUCH THE SQUID as there were fish caught all over on 'dines as all we could pick up were the calicos..which was a real steady pick...
Toronado was nailing the fish as was the PV, so evey spotie came over and had some fun in the action...we ended up getting a monster on a blu/white jig and hooked some bigger models that made its way into the kelp, but we did not have as much luck as the sporties w/dines...weird???????
So, all in all, a great day, weather was decent but fishing pretty much was keeping you busy all day..
pics to follow....
Congrats on some fish.
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