8/23 pm session

[Matt]

Launched with Dennis at about 4pm after spending a grip of time looking for a parking space, didn't even try to make bait just headed on out with what has been working as of late heavy irons and dead squid. Had lots and lots of taps on the dead squid from rockfish and assorted bottom dwellers. Finally at around 6:45pm saw some marks in a little shallower than I expected at around 85', one crank up from the bottom got a big old hit and he stuck, got him to the boat in 65' more due to drift and wind than any big pulls from the fish.


came to gaff fairly quick, all vertical fight with a few runs in between not a huge fish but quite tasty!!

The next drop I got the calico all gill hooked and destined to die, so now I have calico tacos......I would have let him go had he not been gill hooked and almost dead when I got him to the boat.



Water was super warm, measuring close to 72-73, definitely nice to fish in trunks again. Dennis and I seemed to be the only yaks that I saw on the water, sporties were in close too.