Well finished up the big 3 day trip yesterday. Here are tre highlights. Departed Friday 1 AM got a scoop of bait and set a course for the 390. Nice ride out. Arrived at the 390 at grey; light and out go the lines. After 1 hour of nothing , heard a guy on the radio calling out numbers for a crazy wide open bigeye and dorado bite. Dismissed the report for about 5 minutes, then heard him again saying it's not a hoax. So kicked the boat into high gear and off we went. Arrived to 3 charter boats and multiple Pb's soaking bait and several boats bent. We get bait out and pick up a dorado, then farm a yellowfin. We watched boats around us picking one or two but it necer really went for us so we headed NW to SCI and our intended anchorage. Picked up a couple dorado and yellowtail on paddies along the way. Arrived at the cove at 6:00PM and threw down an excellent meal of blackened dorado with sauteed red onions and italian squash. Dropped down some dorado and yellowtail carcasses and some baits. Several raked baits later up comes a 25lb black seabass (released of course). No halibut for us. Beautiful night on the hook. Saturday we spent 2 hours making bait and only was able to put about 25 baits in the tank. Fished the entire cove area for 3 hours for butts with no joy. Radio chatter was about another bigeye bite in the 213 area. Decided to head into S.D. for fuel and bait then down to the 213 for the Sunday bite. Knew the WEAX would be questionable. On the way to S.D. stopped on a paddy that lit up with a beautiful blue, and purple neon sign that read "get your dorados here". Wouldn't eat the mackerel until we slow trolled them. Three of us boated 6 really nice fish with the biggest going 21 lb's on my scale and Harbor Islands scale. Sure looked bigger. Get this we were using 10 inch mackerel for bait ands one of the dorado ate my buddies bait, then chased down and ate my other buddies bait. Both of them actually hgooked the fish and boated it in under a minute. After fueling up it was off to the Coronados for a short sleep then at midnight we headed south. All was calm until we got out of the lee of the islands. Seas and wind increased big time the further south we went and several boats were turning back. Multiple waves break around us and spray is making it difficult to see so we threw in the towel and turned toward home with no tuna for the entire trip. Other than Sunday, the weather was absolutely gorgeous. I'll get the pics on line early this week. Only added 12 points to the board with the bigger dorado. Oh well.
Later,
Scott
