Nice Day on the Water 10/30

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Launched at about 7 into ankle slappers with a nice offshore breeze for an easy paddle out. Saw Bob and Chris at the launch. Trolled a little Rapala after the first bouy and got a monster mack and a baby bonito.

Flylined the mack around the corner and then sent him down to the bottom. Something big took a bite down there but didn't get hooked. Lingcod maybe?

I had a few shrimp so I sent those down while drifting back towards the kelp and back through it. Did get a few rockfish and rehooked em for the round trip back down like was described in yesterday's thread.

I got a lot of bites on the shrimp that didn't translate into fish caught. Its pretty easy to steal off the hook.

Don't take this report to mean that there are no big ones in LJ. If someone competent goes and gets skunked, that would be another thing!

Nice day on the water though. Really nice. Next time I might just stick to the rapala off the condo. Catching bonito is pretty fun!