Got rid of that San Diego skunk!
I've been on two expensive and skunky charters out of San Diego in the last 3 years. Well we tried one more time...and finally tore it up!
Great weather, good company, excellent charter service and loads of tuna. F'Yeah!
It was a relatively short ride out to Mexican waters. Once the capt saw fish on the sonar he shut it down and we drifted while chumming with cut bait and live sardines. The fish slowly worked their way up from 100-150' until they were breaking the surface all around the boat and we had birds diving. We drifted live sardines with the reels in free spool while applying just enough thumb pressure to let the bait swim. When the line started peeling off we would count to three, engage the spool and hold on. Very powerful fish!
After catching my first yellow fin I celebrated with a Modelo and a tuna heart that was still beating. Fresh! We started boating fish so quickly that there were multiple hook ups and not enough time to put them in the cooler. Someone was yelling fish on and someone else was yelling for the gaff. The back of the boat turned into a crime scene and everyone was covered in spattered blood.
We boated 11 yellow fin and 3 blue fin between 25 - 35 lbs. Fished with my sister Andrea, grad school buddy Jeff (some of you should recognize him) & my uncle.
Great weather, good company, excellent charter service and loads of tuna. F'Yeah!
It was a relatively short ride out to Mexican waters. Once the capt saw fish on the sonar he shut it down and we drifted while chumming with cut bait and live sardines. The fish slowly worked their way up from 100-150' until they were breaking the surface all around the boat and we had birds diving. We drifted live sardines with the reels in free spool while applying just enough thumb pressure to let the bait swim. When the line started peeling off we would count to three, engage the spool and hold on. Very powerful fish!
After catching my first yellow fin I celebrated with a Modelo and a tuna heart that was still beating. Fresh! We started boating fish so quickly that there were multiple hook ups and not enough time to put them in the cooler. Someone was yelling fish on and someone else was yelling for the gaff. The back of the boat turned into a crime scene and everyone was covered in spattered blood.
We boated 11 yellow fin and 3 blue fin between 25 - 35 lbs. Fished with my sister Andrea, grad school buddy Jeff (some of you should recognize him) & my uncle.
posted by brian | 5:31 AM
6 Comments:
very awesome. It's been a while since someone posted a meat haul on the page. How many live sardines does it take to chum. that seems like you would have to have a HUGE bait well.
Awesome, nice to see such a good haul!
I congratulate you on such success especially considering you violated the first two primary rules of seafaring.
Perhaps the tuna gods were angry at the tuna for once and demanded a sacrifice. In true Aztec style, the tuna heart was a nice touch.
Yeah Alan, lots of bait. Every boat in SoCal has huge bait wells. We left with $100 of anchovies. The guys gambled by chumming so heavy but that is probably the reason why we outfished all of the boats around us.
Chris, I'm not sure what seafaring rules were violated. The capt brought the banana.
I think the charter guys were angry at the tuna since they showed up so late in the season. We asked what the limit was and they said, "we'll tell you when to stop fishing."
The first rule is clearly the banana, maybe that one didnt count because it was green.
The second rule is the 'no woman on the boat beacuse it makes the ocean angry' rule.
Maybe these rules have been ammended since I last checked, clearly they did not hamper your haul. I'm a bit jealous of your dinner for the next 2 months.
Ah, I see the truth in your seafaring wisdom. The common denominator in the last two san diego skunk trips was michelle.
Aaah, it is not that you have 'a woman' on the boat, as with all things it is determined by 'what woman' you have. Makes perfect sense when you think about it.
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