Bait and Bass (2/4)

[Latimeria]

Having been crammed in a small house with 4 girls has been wearing on me.  I woke up Saturday morning to a crying granddaughter and decided to hook up the boat and get away for a bit.  Man, I wish I prepped anything the night before because it was a lot of prep to do at 7:30 am.

Finally got out with nothing but the hopes of some bass and maybe a butt.



It was a little windy by the time I got out there, but it was supposed to subside before going 15-20 mph in the afternoon.  The turd rollers were on the chew, but my usual winter bass spot was pretty empty compared to years past. 

I still ended up with 8 turds and 4 calico by the end of the morning.



Only one was legal, but the rest were all right between 12-13.9"



I also caught a few big Browns, but just released them right away before they bloated.

I moved around and went looking for triggers and listened to all the radio chatter about some big halibut caught off La Jolla.  I caught some calico and some small brownies that sucked down 6' swimbaits!





I metered some exciting looking stuff as I got into LJ.  Macks were everywhere and I caught about 30 of them.  I then metered a school of something hugs swimming below the boat!  Holy shnikeys!  I wasn't prepared with anything and the school was gone before I could blink.  Too many boats in LJ, and I had one big hit that tore the mack off, but it was only on as fast as it was off.

The wind picked up and I headed back to the barn, but from everything I saw on the meter, I'm very excited to see what I have seen.

[KogaHead]

Thanks for the invite!

Four women is three too many.

[jrodda]

Nice morning and nice mac haul. My limited sabiki attempts last week didn't score me any so waiting for water temps to come up a hair more before loading up on them.

[vdisney]

Glad you got out of the house Tom, and happy you caught fish........

[Tim524]

 Nice retreat from the chaos and looks like you have a nice batch of Bat food