Fishing: Good Offshore, Terrible Inshore
The Boat: Fixed
On Friday I packed my bags grabed my new music from Sara who battled Itunes complications for hours just to make me a new cd for my trip. Pulling into Radio Island 2hrs later to find the boat fixed and ready to go. So I spent the afternoon getting the outriggers out, checking all the systems, fueling up the Triumph and hanging out with the guys at the docks. The staff at Radio Island Marina are legit fisherman and all around good guys I enjoyed the conversations about boats, life, and fishing.
This trip was a special one as we had a special angler with us, Jeff's Dad.
On Friday night we did the regular routine hit up the ruddy duck, dropped by Lowes food, and checked in at the Quality Inn. Its starting to feel like we are regulars every trip seems to get easier in the sense of getting things prepped and ready.
The wind was forecast at SW but in reality it really blew straight west, making my side of the boat wet. We made it out to the 14 buoy where we found other fisherman trolling in the area along side of some semi formed weed lines but nothing trollable. So we drove on, and on, and on passing non fish-able weed lines. Then the God sent bright glowing weed patch was seen on the horizon.
We set lines and trolled once the lines crossed beside the big patch a reel went screaming and we where hooked up. Me and Jeff start clearing lines and hand the rod to his dad to start the fight. I picked up the left side rod pulled it out of the clip switch to second gear to hurry up the process. I felt no tension looked out and a dolphin jumped and Pop-pop said it wasn't his, a good 10 seconds of confusion set in. Then my drag started to peel off and we had a double!
Jeff gaffed Pop-pop's dolphin and threw out a bailing line and hooked up again. We put three dolphin in the boat in fifteen minutes. We then proceeded to chum and bail more dolphin near the mat, perhaps the strangest thing of the day was the attack of the birds.
It all started out with one bird feasting on our chum then they where diving at our spinning lines. Once hooked up these birds have no fear of attacking a dolphin and ripping the bait out of their mouths. Ok we can deal with a little bird action then the gang showed up and made trolling impossible. These dumb birds where picking up the plugs and eating the baits! So we picked up our lures headed in and trolled a few more spot with no success.
J.Jones
It all started out with one bird feasting on our chum then they where diving at our spinning lines. Once hooked up these birds have no fear of attacking a dolphin and ripping the bait out of their mouths. Ok we can deal with a little bird action then the gang showed up and made trolling impossible. These dumb birds where picking up the plugs and eating the baits! So we picked up our lures headed in and trolled a few more spot with no success.
Overall it was one heck of a trip, good dolphin, decent weather, and great company.
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