Had to take care of my girls earlier this weekend, so I couldn’t make it out to the Canyons with my teammates this time around. That being said my brothers Lou and Derek did a great job out there getting into some nice yellows and a large school of migrating Bluefin. Great work guys! Fortune favors the bold!
By Sat night my ladies were doing better so to salvage the weekend I put a Sunday Blackfish ...
trip together with a “fishy” father and son team and long time “East Coasters” Tim and Charles Underhill. Along to help out was ECC Mate Brandon Lake. In addition to our crew, Ecc Mate Nick and our friend Brian would also be heading out on their boats to help get on the bite.
This would be Tim and Charles first trip for Tog, so I was anxious to put them on some solid action. Forecast was a bit off so we did a little bouncing on our way out past the reef. Once we got there Brandon and I worked together to get us anchored over some nice structure. Once in place, we crabbed up and dropped. The entire crew was using light tackle Trev S series rods. Only moment into it Tim and Brandon were tight on fish, kicking off a nice one hour flurry of action. Another ten minutes later a few boats schemed in on us and dropped anchors all over putting an immediate halt to the bite.
As if on queue, I got a call from Nick who was fishing with his wife Allie and keeping an eye out for us. “Jack I’m Bailing them, I’ve already limited out” he said. WOW! Brandon ran up to the bow and pulled the anchor and we steamed about a mile north to Nick’s location. He had found a nice piece of rocky bottom with no large structure but a ton of fish and well away from the swarm of other boats. Next to Nick, were my friends and Clients Mark and Kyle Paparelli on their boat and Brian on his Hyrda. All three boats were tight, Nick’s boat was Quadrupled up!!! We set anchor and slid in between Mark and Nick’s vessels beautifully. All rods in and Wham, Insta-bite! We had wave after wave of action the entire day with beautiful fish.
We limited out in no time and were throwing back Keeper sized fish like they were Choggies.
The highlight of the trip was First time Togger Tim landing a toad weighing in at 10.6lbs on some seriously light spinning gear.
A nice way to salvage the nice weekend and get some time on the water with great folks!
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