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Boat Fishing => Saltwater Boat Fishing Reports => : Latimeria June 05, 2015, 07:53:19 PM
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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!
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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.
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I got back to back legal lings and the fish finder was all lit up!
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Steve finally got one and it looked like a beauty until we realized he snagged it in his belly. ;D
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.
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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!
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Mack
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Oobly Gooblies
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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!
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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...
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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.
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Nice ... at least you 'caught' fish ....
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Nice to see ya out there boss. its gonna be a good long year...we got time..
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Vertu nice BBQ material there 8)
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B.O.A.T = bust out another thousand
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B.O.A.T = bust out another thousand
Boat also means you have a bunch of people wanting to be your fishing buddy! ;)
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Glad you are getting the Boma out and about again, bummer on losing power ??? Hope it's a quick fix ;)