Josh & Mike along with newbie Mark Oz left the harbor thinking of exploring for albacore in greasy flat seas. When we arrived at Mike’s bait all his lights were off then I remembered hearing a report from wed. that he didn’t have any bait so we turned around without disturbing him. Without bait we decided to chase the yellows from the previous week at the N. end of the island instead of going offshore. As soon as we put out the rapalas we heard Mike on the radio & found that he has had plenty of bait, just been working late & getting up late. CALL HIM ON THE RADIO BEFORE GIVING UP. We worked the usual areas but were just catching bonito so around 9:30 it was time to switch gears & start fishing the boiler rocks for a few bass plus a nice ling on the dark 6" MC Swimbait. The big sportcoats weren’t showing so off we went to check out Punta Banda. The lings were there in force eating the plastic but still no good bass bite. After fishing our way back up the backside of Todos Santos for nothing we put out the lures to troll the N. end again. As soon as the sun broke through the clouds at noon Mikes rod went off bigtime. Since Mark was a yellow virgin we let him pick it up & the show was well worth it. Having only fished for bottom fish it took some coaching & lessons on "pumping" a fish but I won’t soon forget his expression when that yellow hit the deck.

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We caught 5 more in the next 2 hrs including a double on lime colored slow trolled 6" MC Swimbaits.

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Good fishing but we had to work hard for the 14-19 lb very tough fish. Put the boat on the trailer @ 3:00 pm

Sat. we couldn’t resist sleeping in and fishing the yellows again instead of going offshore due to the sm. size & lack of reports on the albacore. We got perfect sardines from Mike’s Bait & joined the fleet of about 30 boats for nothing in the first 2 hrs. Mark missed our first bite drifting a sardine. Shortly after Charo got a triple slow trolling sardines so we did the same putting 2 fish on back to back immediately. As soon as we put the gaff in my fish we headed back in due to boat problems. Put the boat on the trailer @ 10:30 am.