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A 3-Day Fishing Frenzy
The regular
skipper, Mike Keating, is taking a well-deserved trip off. Joe Dunn (no
relation, just in case you were wondering) is running the boat this trip.
We leave the dock around 8pm with a very light load of passengers; only
18 people on the boat. We fill up the tanks with anchovies at the
receiver, and head South, WAY South.
DAY 1 - Fishing fairly slow. We keep heading "down the
line", fishing an area offshore between Cabo Colnett and San Martin
Island. Only picked up 30 Albacore on the day. Weather is fair and
typical for this time of year---breezy and overcast with a few breaks in
the clouds.
DAY 2 - A steady pick on Albacore throughout the morning. Then,
the bite exploded. THE BEST Albacore fishing I have ever seen! Our
"stop" lasted from 1:00pm until it got dark, around 8:00pm.
Normally, the rule is no crew fishing. That's one rule I very much
respect and appreciate. It's also one rule that went out the scupper this
trip. To tell you the truth, none of the passengers really cared. They
were far too busy catching as many fish as they could haul in. I managed
to catch 5 albies---3 fish on a 60# trolling rig that I converted to a
bait stick. Just pin three anchovies on a big meathook, fling it over the
side on "the corner", and hang on! We had 292 fish (all
albacore) on the day.
DAY 3 - Started off the morning with a few albies, but then hung a
bigeye. The guy fought the fish for over three hours. We even followed
the fish with the boat to help speed up the process, but guess what
happened when we got the fish to deep color. Yep...SNAP! Well, we were so
far from home we needed to leave then to get back to San Diego in time
for the next trip later that day. Total for the three days: 300+ Albacore
for 18 passengers. By the way, when one of our crew members asked a
fisherman on the trip what he now thought of multi-day fishing, he
replied, "Well, it was OK, but I thought the fishing would be a
little better!" Believe it or not!
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