Started out at Fishing Ledge in CCB after hearing some intel from a buddies network...no life.
Trolled from race point up beyond the bath houses and saw the same story only much stronger current: plently of bait but no sign of Charlie other than one lonely mark.
Moved out deeper off Peaked Hill under the theory that Chas. may be hanging there due to the currents...no love there.
Headed to the old BE, found whales and tons more bait and finally saw a balloon disappear in a big black hole but it broke right off. When we took the horse mack in it had been chomped in half, most likely by a shark. (mac the knife)
Final rally at the SWC for a couple of hours with giant chum slick made of pogies, their oil, macs, herring and squid we had jigged in the am. We drew in a Chinese army of ...(drum roll please).........Mackeral. So during the boredom we started catching them on a 130 and trying to target the horse mac's ( watch for 'Wicked Mackeral' this fall @ 9pm on the NGEO channel)
I think many have taken a wait and see attitude because every area above had very few boats, (commercial or otherwise) for what I would've thought would have been a very busy Friday. The whale watch boats were all full.
Our bait well was so full of fat pogies, macs, a few blues and squid that we started losing them to low oxygen levels, so I think we had whatever should have worked on the boat.
All in all it was a great day to be on the water. If I were going out today in would be much further east somewhere. Good luck and if you start to get discouraged, just remember you can get tight lines with Mackeral too
