Some big speckled rockfish at the 14 as well. That's a real nice whitefish. Glad you're able to decompress!

Nice catching trip. Always enjoy the pictures.

Hopefully the warmer waters bring in the yellowtails this summer.

- Keith

I heard of the yellowtail bite going on in LJ and planned on trying to get in on some of the action.  I don't get up as early as I used to fish, but still early enough.  Anyway, supposedly the afternoon bite is the hot bite.



Weather was beautiful.



Only issue was even though it looks glassy in the pics, the peaks of the small waves were just enough that I could only run at 1/3 steam.  Anything faster and I was just slamming the water with my semi-V hull.

I get to LJ and see 50 of my closest friends around doing all sorts of methods looking for these fish.  Too much sh!t in the water to troll, so I threw the irons a lot.

Finally I had it after an hour and shot out to my rockfish spot.  I needed o unplug from the world a bit to calm my racing brain and this sh!t show was not bringing the justice I need.

First drop on my spot with the little 2500 spinner and I knew it was a red. 



Great, only one more and then I would have a bunch of descending to do in order to make it worth my while.  Funny thing was I had the next 2 hours of no reds so it was quite fun, especially with the little trout rod in 340 feet!

I can't lie, I thought this was going to be a real red, but nope... only old stinky.



I caught a couple of big bank perch and they were by far my biggest I've ever caught.  A lot of fun on the little rod also since they fight all the way up!



Ended up with a limit of good quality reds, and even returned a few.  I also got my tolken Copper Rockfish!



I caught my usual Green Spotted, Green Striped, Starries, Honey Combs, Sculpin, and whitefish...

Then I literally get slammed and no joke, almost pulled the rod out of my hand!  WTF is this?  It screamed drag out of the spinner almost the entire way up and I was perplexed on what I hooked.  I was figuring it was a deepwater sheepshead from all of the runs but otherwise I was stumped!

WTF?!?!?!?!?!  I have to go back into my records to see what my biggest one is, but I'm pretty sure this guy is it!  A total UNIT!



No Joke.  When I hear of people talking back in the old days about the huge Whitefish, I thought they might have all been gone from our local waters.  I guess not.

(another view)



I then start heading back to LJ to see if things calmed down, but there were now twice as many boats so I jut hung a 90 degree turn and went on my own hunt.  I saw tons of terns working and started to throw the iron in them hoping to see yellows!  I did see a few pop up in the micro bait, so I have my shot!

Well, no yellows but I did find a bunch of bonito.



I made a move after getting tired of them and decided to soak some fresh (previously frozen) squid for some WSB.

I tossed the iron a few times and caught a few slimers!  I haven't seen these guys in a minute or two!



Then I get a screamer on the squid!  It felt right and I was thinking it has to be one of the big three.... yellow, WSB, or butt!  I quickly thought WSB after a few minutes into the fight, but took my time....

Ugh, now my shoulder is torn up, and all I got out of it is this other slimy critter!  LOL



Little circles on a bat ray are hard as hell to get out, but it was quite the fight!

I was watching for every boat coming in from LJ, there were 5 going out TO LJ!  I've never seen so many late boats heading out there before, but that was my call to finally head home.  I stayed out much later than I usually do and didn't want my arm to fall off.

Well, thanks for reading and until next tide!

My wife and I will be down there. We always spend our anniversary down there

 Tomorrow is the day, Janie and I are going to check it out, anyone else going ?

Micromanaging sucks!

That "Fresh Meat" feeling always sucks, hope you get back to a normal routine of fishing soon !

Until I pass my probationary period and hopefully get to do a little more fishing! I'm being micromanaged like I was 15 working at Carvel again!

I did get out this weekend but only managed one 9" spotty and missed 2 others. One of my worst days stalking the shoreline in recent memory.

Well, hopefully soon....

So I was fishing from an NRS Gig Bob, 8'4 by 6'6, 44lb frameless pontoon. To call it a float tube is quite a stretch but my only propulsion was my feet so it's the same experience. I had a ton of trouble turning, could have been the size, could have been the dive fins I had. I liked being high and dry, I was only wet up to mid-calf and wore normal shorts for the day.

I'm probably going to try a co-worker's Cumberland U-shaped float tube real soon and compare experiences. I will have my bum in a couple inches of water for that. My thing about that is it will eventually necessitate another pair of waders that I have to buy and I'm extremely tight on space, barely enough room for a float tube purchase.

After researching a ton yesterday, the perfect fit for me might be the Dave Scadden Slash, which is a tiny pontoon type, 6'x4' and 18lbs, sits real high, 500lb capacity. But at $600 on sale right now and $900 normally, might be tough to justify. If it's my primary fishing style for the next year or two then maybe. Probably will become more of an annual thing once I get another boat. Or if I don't mind being a little wetter, I might try the 350lb capacity GoPlus on Amazon for $120, which might still keep me dryer than other tubes.


And I did get a good burn on my knees! Couple applications of Aloe Vera and I'm doing okay.

I've been eyeballing Kayaks and Float Tubes just for Bishop and Mammoth and still can't decide

Looks like you will have a nice sun burn

Was there anything you didn't like about the tube ?