Duped By The Forecast (6/5)

[Latimeria]

When I was looking at the report yesterday, I saw that the winds were going to pick up, but they were calling for very light conditions out there.  This seemed like a perfect opportunity to take the Boma out looking for Bluefin, so I took the day off and met Squatch down at the ramp.  He had a case of the "Fishing Flu" today also.

The wind was HOWLING from the south and the waves and swell were at least 2 to 3 times bigger than the forecast the day before.  I kind of knew this wasn't going to be the day to look for Bluefin, but I was hoping we could get some bait and at least get a yellow or two.  On the way out the inlet, we passed a few dozen tuna crab swimming with the current.  We tried to scoop a few, but they were quicker than they look!

Once again, the bait was scarce. I had one lucky drop after metering a small meatball on the sonar and pulled up 5 large macks on one drop.  We had 6 macks total and decided to make the run to the yellowtail grounds.  On one of the drifts, we had a se lion pop up and eat one of my baits... down to 5 now...

We ran at a slow pace here and there trying to meter stuff before we decided to just drift some big macks on the dropper loop out deep.  I metered what I thought was a nice school of macks before I left and my tine sabiki got walloped.  I thought I had a stringer of macks on, but it was only this stinky Salmon Grouper that I kept for one of my neighbors.  lol

Greedy bastard!



At this point we got a few rockfish in the cooler and I had some numbers that I wanted to run to.  On my first drop with the big mack, I get hit.  It turns out there was a mess of these things down here, but it was hard to get the hook stuck in them when they were choking on the mackerel.



I got back to back legal lings and the fish finder was all lit up!



Steve finally got one and it looked like a beauty until we realized he snagged it in his belly. 
We burned through our few baits quickly and must have had 8 or more definite ling bites, but only managed to boat 3.
The current and wind was ripping and I had some meat in the cooler, so we decided to do some VERY shallow water calico fishing and try and get out of the wind.  I must say, that was pretty fun!  We didn't catch a ton, but we both got into them as well as had a bunch of followers and a bunch of missed fish.









Well, we decided to call it and in the nick of time also.  The wind kicked up from the SW like a bitch and we missed the worst of it even though we were soaked by the time we got to the inlet.

I went to open it up when we got in the inlet, but the motor kept bogging down everytime I opened up the throttle!?  WTF?  I tried a few more time with no success, so I just decided to take it slow back to the trailer.  When I got her on the trailer, I was getting nervous that my motor might have poo-poo'd on me.  I kept it out of gear and revved the motor just to hear her sound like a million bucks!  I put it in gear and used the trailer tongue to hold me there.  My fears are now thinking my lower end is shot as I could not generate any power when putting it in gear...  Great, the Boma is temporarily done even before the season started!  grrrr.

Anyway, I got back home and washed her up and cleaned the fish.  The ling were just stuffed as their bellies almost couldn't hold another thing!



Mack



Oobly Gooblies



Well, I got a few rockfish and 2 ling in the cooler, so I couldn't ask for more due to the conditions.  I seared up the cheeks tonight in butter and garlic... it is worth the trouble cutting those things out.

Stay thirsty my friends!

[j.rasta]

Nice meat sesh in the sh!tty conditions boss. Sucks the boma lower end took a dump, and to think you were jus bitchin bout ur trailer on Tuesday...

[sasquatch]

Rough day. Never know what will come with a new morning.

Those lings were fun.

That shallow water calico fishing had me a little nervous when the swells got big. Fun though.

One of these trips we will get slammed.

[WheresMyBeer]

Nice ... at least you 'caught' fish ....

[faster u fool]

Nice to see ya out there boss.  its gonna be a good long year...we got time..

[raychavez91]

Vertu nice BBQ material there

[Pinoyfisher]

B.O.A.T = bust out another thousand

[1morecast]

B.O.A.T = bust out another thousand

Boat also means you have a bunch of people wanting to be your fishing buddy! 

[Tim524]

Glad you are getting the Boma out and about again, bummer on losing power Hope it's a quick fix