Report:
I got sick yesterday, ha ha. Fished the 5-5 on the Fury yesterday. It was supossed to be a YFT trip. But, with the weather looking so grumpy and the report less than good (it rained pretty hard and the wind blew hard from 7am until 9am), the skipper took us up to Laguna in hopes of some YT. Well it was pretty good, we got 12 YT for 8 people, lots of bonnies and sandies too. For being late October it was really good. I had two YT (on bait unfortuanately). 15+ sandies , plus some Bonitos. One of the yellows was on a Halibut rig, hammered the 'dine right when it hit the bottom. That one went about 20lbs for JP, got one early on that was maybe 15lbs with a full stomach. I tried most of the day to take one on rubber (think I farmed one), but just never found the right color I guess. In 150' of water this is a whole new type of rubber fishing. You have to just wind on 'em, if you swing, all you do is pull up the slack. The sandies were fun though (since you had to work for them, not like when they are horny and dumb) and I had hit my limit by 11am. Could have been an easy triple limit day if I hadn't kept changing colors and what not trying to get a yellow the hard way.

Review:
I bought a new rod. It is an 8' Seeker, Black Steel, 15-40lb, with cork wrap. This is one sweet rod guys. I put my SL20 on it with 12lb Crystal Ivory Maxima. It fished great with iron, rubber, and bait. It put a hurtn' on those yellows. Granted at 8' it did a number on me too (I have a bad back so this is a concern when I buy a rod). It's sensitive, light tipped enough to launch a bait or even 1/2oz jig heads, and very light in weight. I wish I could buy a few more.

Sorry for the long post,
Amish Ed