Tough weekend in La Jolla

[tthor]

After hearing reports all week of the bite in La Jolla, I was finally able to get out on Friday. I got out to the light boats around 4:45 and had no luck jigging squid so around 5:45 I moved out to start fishing with the fresh dead I got from some friends that were out on Wednesday. It seemed like the number of light and squid boats was light compared to reports earlier in the week, lots of kayaks and pvt boats out though. It was a slow morning with no signs of life except the tool on the light boat Integrity out of his gourd yelling and going off then making a drive through of the fleet in his dingy. Finally around 7:30 I get my chance and I am hung solid. Unfortunately I get busted off and that was it for me. I stayed out till around 10:00 and for the morning I saw four really nice yellows landed and a number of blacks released. Still kicking myself about the lose, I surfed Blacks Saturday morning and noticed that there was still some light and squid boats still out so decided to give it another go on Sunday. The squid were up around the Ultra but I had no luck with jigging, the squid would just scatter away from my squid jig so the guys on the Ultra filled my tank for $5. I moved out and started fishing around 6:00 and fished till 9:00 for nada. All I saw hooked were blacks. Congrat’s to all that got in on the bite, there were some incredibly nice fish caught last week.

Tom