Was doing nicely loading up the boat on my own then the Brurry Booby Man rolls up 1st thing he said to me was that he ate jolopina's last night so I went off looking for a street cleaner
Distraction caused me to 4get the Scotty2Hotty's in the garage, didn't really know wot we were going to fush 4 on the day did pack sum pilly's & were going to stop off & get sum squiddy's 1/2 way there was when I noticed the Scotty2Hotty's not on board. so had to turn back.
Had planned to downrig the Fads in search of mahi but boat had a full arsenal of tackle on board, sum mates of mine had ling ling'd me early in the morn wanting to know if I'd want to go out for a fush with them told them I was allready on the water not long after they joined us @ my squid grounds.
Pretty sloppy conditions & they weren't really on the chew didn't want to waste the day there so started heading out to the peak Fad the boys gave it a nutter 10 minutes & followed.
Got to the Fad & saw a pair of shark baits in the water [bloody spear fishermen] these guys run floats to their gus on about 30 meters of cord & can see sum blews out there with fisho's pulling lures.
Thought bugger this & shot out to the with Fad boys allready there in the 42 ft'r just b4 us, I'd allready setup a spread of lures 1/2 mile short of the Fad they'd gone straight to it & droped the Scotty2Hotty.
Wun look @ the Fad & I started shaking my head
Then I saw those idiot spearo's come racing over they jumped in the water north of the Fad a minute or so later their boat was picking them up 100 meters or so Sth of it
We left the area with lure spread out & headed out wide was a bitch every time I started heading north boat speed would drop down to 3 or so knots the current was howling.
Back on the radio to the boys they were drifting @ over 5 knots impossible to stay on the Fad with downrigger, knew it was going to be a bitch of a day & also knew I wouldn't be able to pull lures to places I wanted to.
Water temp hit 25 degrees on the 100 fathom line & jumped to 25.6 deg when I got to the 500 meter drop difference there was best blue water I'd seen for sum time.
Decided to head sth to the canyons shut down wun moter & virtually iddled the udder on 2200 rpm & we were still pulling 9 knots with more importantly lures working well.
So far we hadn't seen a thing all day & canyon area was no better radio had a couple of boats ketching jellybean YFT & blind strike mahi & a short billed spearfish but it seemed action was up nth @ the bait station out of the Q for us esp in the raging current.
After a couple of laps @ the canyons decided to track back to the Pt Hacking Fad wot a bitch that was 2 hrs to do 5 miles en route the Booby Man awoke from his slumper from the sleepy sleepy bunks long enough to push Wozza out of the way & to play with the rod
I'd run a small bibless down the guts in hope of mahi but a fat wittle stripy had ET it instead
After that did see schools of baitfishy's on the surface did try working them but thought it a waste of time cause all we were doing was being carried sth @ a good rate of speed & would've finished off down pt kembla b4 to long so started making tracks for the Fad again.
Saw a few boils which turned out to be dolphins next thing they were everywhere & wouldn't leave us alone for next hr got to Fad finally did a few pass's & opted to call it a day current made it just to hard to fush out there.
Did stop off @ jibbon on way back in dropped a squid in for 20 minutes sounder didn't show a great deal so pulled in bait & headed back into the Bay
Hr or so @ Molly for rat girls