Went out last weekend on a local boat, the El Gato Dos out of Seaforth Landing. This is a nice 6pack that I had always seen but never been on. Check another boat off the list. Great boat and great crew. Brian (Capt) and John (1st Mate) did a great job putting us on the fish and working hard to find us fish. Started out early, left the dock at 4AM to make the rock pile just south of the islands. But everyone else had the same idea for a Sat. morning. Counted more than 50+ boats. But still got 4 yellows and some nice Cudas. But the bite shut down early with all the preasure, so we moved due west to see if we could find a few paddies. About 5 -6 miles west of the islands we came on a 200lb Marlin and got him to chase the jiggs. He hit one and the battle was on, for about 30 seconds... This guy had plans on going south and he spooled me in before I had a chance to even pull on him. The reel was straight mono and he was taking it all. He gave us a few parting jumps with the jigg hanging out the side of the bill as he headed south. Note to Brian, one word "Spectra".... We moved on and came across a few large whales and metered some fish deep, but could not get them to come up and play. Headed back toward the islands to see if we could find the yellows in the middle ground. On the way back we spotted a small paddy and trolled by with a large yellow hitting the Marlin jigg. He put up a good fight and came in at 23.8lb. tried a few other paddies with mixed results, hooked up but the broke off in the paddy on us. So it was close to 2PM and stopped a few more spots but could not find anyone who wanted to play and we called it a day. Total for the gang was 5 Yellowtails and 4 Cudas, 1 Marlin hook-up.
Here is the link to the photos - http://community.webshots.com/album/560480225?vhost=community
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