I changed my mind at the last minute. I decided to head to the Lump first to see what was happening. I found a nice open spot amidst the flotilla of 50 + boats. Water looked good and the chumming commenced but nothing showing up in the slick. Look to my right and a 27 contender settles in @ 40 feet on my port side.
10 minutes later the Dorado settles in @ 50 ft on the starboard side so I am now the meat in the sandwich. After chumming and listening to people beatch and whine on the radio for 3 hours we picked up anchor and left the lump with 11 beeliners. However, shortly before leaving we watched the mate on the Dorado whack a Pelican with the gaff twice. The Pelican floated away although I am not sure if it died or not. Not very sportsmanlike if you ask me.
We left the Lump only to find most of the rigs in the vicinity were covered up. I saw a rig to the north with no boats so we headed over there and put out a spread. Purple Marauder long followed by a red/white stretch 30 then a pink stretch 30. First pass provided a knockdown and we put a wahoo in the boat. He hit the pink.
Trolled a little while longer with nothing and two boats show up. As I am heading away from the rig the Marauder gets eaten and I was pleasantly surprised to find a small YF on the end.
We moved on and the water got dirty green. After pulling baits for a little while with no hits we started jigging on the upcurent side of the rig and the AJs were thick. The Williamson Abyss jigs were doing the job. Drop em for 40 seconds and rip em up and hold on!!
We finished the day with 11 Beeliner Snappers, one Wahoo, one YF and 3 AJs for our three man crew.
That was my first time offshore in 3 months and man I needed that. We will be back at it shortly.
In the meantime..............Catch em up!!!
Brent
Venice Sat. 2/2/08
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