We headed out early Friday in pretty stiff breeze, but still fishable. Put some great live bait in the tank - macks, rock bass, two nice size corvina, and two hard-headed jacks or pompano of some sort (still not sure what they were, but looked like candy for grouper)... not one bonefish to be found anywhere. Odd.
Conditions were iffy at best, but looked to be like it was laying down. Figured I'd work it slowly south and see what happened. Less than 5 miles out, saw lots of sargasso and good blue water. What the heck, I'm going slow anyway, so dropped a couple of my favorite dorado killers off the back. Within a couple minutes, zing! Nice peanut dodo onboard and in the fish box!
Finally worked out to the 16-180 and stopped the boat. Whoa... wind whistling through the T-top at a steady 20 and rocking and rolling on 4 footers. Okay, this stinks. Back to the slow troll, now down-swell, and getting pushed around all over the place. Kept the trolling lures out, but no takers. Fish probably couldn't even see them at that point with all the white caps. Back in the harbor by 12:30.
Saturday, left Penasco about 6:30 and drove down to Lobos. Ted had the boat ready and we went out in much better seas. The grouper were hungry! We had multiple hookups on a couple stops. We ended up with three in the fish box, all medium size -- perfect eating -- and at least twice that many that came unbuckled -- some big brutes. By afternoon, the water layed pretty nice, but still just enough breeze to keep it from being bastardly hot. Threw out the dorado killers again in a nice sargasso area and soon rewarded with nice size bull, maybe 15 pounds. Hit the same lure the one in Penasco hit the day before! We trolled 3 lines and picked up one more dorado a bit later.
Came back in about 3:00 and headed back up the road to Penasco about 4:45. So at least we got one decent day on the water and some good fishing and good company as a bonus!!
Conditions were iffy at best, but looked to be like it was laying down. Figured I'd work it slowly south and see what happened. Less than 5 miles out, saw lots of sargasso and good blue water. What the heck, I'm going slow anyway, so dropped a couple of my favorite dorado killers off the back. Within a couple minutes, zing! Nice peanut dodo onboard and in the fish box!
Finally worked out to the 16-180 and stopped the boat. Whoa... wind whistling through the T-top at a steady 20 and rocking and rolling on 4 footers. Okay, this stinks. Back to the slow troll, now down-swell, and getting pushed around all over the place. Kept the trolling lures out, but no takers. Fish probably couldn't even see them at that point with all the white caps. Back in the harbor by 12:30.
Saturday, left Penasco about 6:30 and drove down to Lobos. Ted had the boat ready and we went out in much better seas. The grouper were hungry! We had multiple hookups on a couple stops. We ended up with three in the fish box, all medium size -- perfect eating -- and at least twice that many that came unbuckled -- some big brutes. By afternoon, the water layed pretty nice, but still just enough breeze to keep it from being bastardly hot. Threw out the dorado killers again in a nice sargasso area and soon rewarded with nice size bull, maybe 15 pounds. Hit the same lure the one in Penasco hit the day before! We trolled 3 lines and picked up one more dorado a bit later.
Came back in about 3:00 and headed back up the road to Penasco about 4:45. So at least we got one decent day on the water and some good fishing and good company as a bonus!!
