MLK day and I had off, so time to redeem myself from the Saturday skunkage (Well, skunked on my targeted species).
It sounded pretty dead from what I've been hearing, and I was out all-night playing poker so the odds were small that I would get out.... But I powered through!
Conditions looked great, but there was apparently a lot of people that also had the day off. I finally saw some breezers and ran up to them casting out my jig stick! First cast was perfect, but they sunk out and nothing.
Second cast and my spool release was broken... WTF!?!? It felt like it was going to fall off, so I just retired it from the day so I didn't ruin it anymre than it was broken.... UGH
All bait balls were deep and I only metered huge macks. I pinned on the big metal jig and all it attracted was more BIG macks....
I kept a dozen in the live well, when I get slammed! I missed the bite, but it totally felt like a really weird hit. I couldn't get it to go again so I dropped down a fresh frozen squid 150' in 320' of water and it gets slammed! I was sure as sh!t it was a small yellow from the straight up and down fight, but alas.... My curse is real.
I thought it was a smooth hound until it tried to bite me and I noticed the grill!
I had to cut the line to get it out since it was so wrapped up. I released her and dropped again.... Same results! This time I had a clean shot at it and released it right away so I didn't have to deal with a lit up soupie in the boat again.
I dropped at 150' again and caught a HUGE Johnny Bass that I released! WTF was this thing doing swimming in 150' of water in 320+ feet???
I looked up and apparently someone was spying on me and joined the bent rod invitational. Fuggers, but they were a little respectful thankfully.
I had enough and wanted to call it by noon to run back home. I trolled and trolled for nada. Radio was depressing since no one found anything but big macks, so I guess it was a win for me.
Anyway, got home to give the boat a good scrubbing. Also got an earful from my wife and daughter that I'm fishing too much, so i blurted out "Well, Steve coming by tomorrow after work and we're going fishing"... I then followed that up by saying "I'll save some family time for Wednesday and Thursday though".... ha.... I'm in the dog house, but it'll be worth it if we find the Lightning Trout tomorrow!
Well, that was it.
Thanks for reading and hopefully we have a report for tomorrow rather thanb a non-report.