Meat Haul 08-16-2006

This was a very last minute trip that almost didn't happen because I had such a hard time finding 3 other guys who could skip work on Thursday. When I spoke with the the owner on Tuesday evening he told me that I had to go fishing on Thursday because they were catching Amberjack and Blackfin. On Wed. afternoon I finally rounded up a crew consisting of Dyer, Mitchell, Brian and me.

We left the dock around 0630 in a 30' Scarab. This is a very fast boat but maybe not the best fishing design. We fished a series of shrimp boats about 70 miles. They were anchored up and culling their catch. We found dorado and ling behind these boats. We chummed these fish close to the boat and then pitched baits to them using fairly light tackle.

Next we hit some rigs 80 miles out where the AJ's were holding. Brian caught the first and biggest fish. Then we started catching some smaller ones before we finally got back into the keepers. These fish lived up to their reputation of being tough! After catching our limit of 1/person we headed back to the shrimp boats in hopes of chumming up some blackfin. We didn't find any blackfin but we did pull 4 lings from under one of the boats. I think we hooked three and kept two.

The other boats didn't have much fish around them and it was starting to get late so we headed for the dock. We stopped at a weed patch and another shrimp boat on the way but there wasn't much happening. Here is the final catch of AJ, Ling, and Dorado. We accidentally caught a king and one big snapper.