Soups on......LJ report 5/19/17

[MITCHELL]

Beautiful flat conditions at the launch.Caught 4 pacific mackerel, one big one three medium to small size mackerel. Started flylining one after awhile a sealion got it. By then I'm west of the big hotel in a 100ft of water so I decided to drop the big Mac down on the dropper loop 8oz sinker and wham with in 15mins, at first I was wondering if it was a sealion but it didn't unbutton. I was hoping yt because it pulled so hard, but after a while I could tell it wasn't a yt because of the bouncing up and down felt like I was dribbling a basketball.It was pulling me around pretty good for about 15 mins or so I had it on a marlin pole with all roller guides and a 454 newell. I findy got it up to where I could see color and identity it as a soup fin after that I took some pictures with my cell phone.I whipped him pretty good and was able to retrieve my hook with crimping plyers and watch him swim away.With the last two mackerel I put one up and one down and started paddling in until a sealion finely got both.out of mackerel now.I put an unbrella rig with sardine swim baits but no takers and that was the end of my day