Report - Father's Day LJ
 

The score:

barries: 3
coats: 1

critters: 3


After a long several weeks of being land-locked, finally got the opportunity to get out. Arrived at the launch around 5ish, foggy lo-vis, a few others rigging (Nice meeting you Matt - hope you scored), pretty low/manageable surf. All appearences a good start to the morning. Wet launch as usual but the coffee survived so not bad. Out past the cans, shortly after fussing with a depth finder that wouldn't cooperate. :rolleyes: No water temp but it was warming up, and I thought somewhat dirty-green. Not much wind at all and small swell to start which built to around 3 feet later in the morn. Pleanty of bait in the water, saw a good 8 or so yaks and 2 PBs on the spot making bait. EXCELLENT macks, greenies, and dines to be had on the sabiki with little effort. Filled up the tubes quick like. Made a couple casts on the 15# bass rod/Calcutta 400 with a med size Krok with the (dine?) hologram & got a BIG bend on the med retieve. It was on for a good 15 mins getting drug around a bit and a few 20-40 yard-ish runs, and then a bit of skulking on the bottom. After horsing er up to color, I confirmed Mr Mudd Marlin was in no mood! Broght him up to deep color twice and on the third he had enough and took my Kroc to Davey Jones. :farmer: For most of the morning we worked the outside edge of the kelp with the rest of the fleet including the PBs & cattle boats which arrived well after the yaks. Not much love as far as I could tell save for a few scratchin out some coats, then I guess a school of barries came in and guys, including my buddy who was on his way in :puke: at the time, picked some school-models up - slimers sent back. His were on the Dorado tady-C working boils. He cast to one good boil on the kelp line and was slammed. Boated a nice checker, measured 17", 1.7 on the digi. While he was doing his thing I was pickin up a few critters to avoid the stink. Ended up with a fem goat, a rosy(?) and a tree fish all on a squid strip dropper loop. Anybody have any opinions on the critters I mentioned as far as how they are on the table?? Landed in a bit of surf but it was dry so all good! Wrapped it up by 10, left em biting due to domestic duties. All in all a very pleasant session and great morning on the water.

Great report...