Tuesday night for my birthday we went tubing in the harbor. Mike Edwards, Mark Eggleston, my wife (Jen) and I. We started near the wharf and I got two short seabass and a short halibut and Jen got her first short seabass. Between the wharf and harbor Mike Edwards had a nice (upper 20's - inches) halibut in the net but it flipped out and that damn second treble on the Fastrac caught the net. Mark got three short halibut. At sunset we went over to the bait receiver. Mark was the first to hookup on the fastrac with a 26 inch seabass. I got nailed on the big sardine plastic with a 25 incher. Then Jen got about a 22 incher on a 6 or 7 inch Big Hammer. Mark hooked up again and after a nice fight on his light spin rod with 8 lb. Triple Fish landed a 32 inch seabass.

Got out of the water around 8:30 and I was on the Seahawk at 9:15. At 2:00 am I woke up and we were on a huge school of squid. I dropped the Big Hammer Jen was using in the harbor and it got shredded by a 'cuda. I threw a live squid on the head and it got stolen. On the way up I snagged another squid (perfectly rigged) and sent it back down to get my first legal seabass (36 inches - 18 lbs.). The seabass bite went off but I tangled with a huge bat ray for the next hour. Got a ton of barracuda on iron a little later. Totals for the boat: limit of seabass (released 2), 3 yellowtail, 3 halibut, 1 calico, 1 rockfish, tons of barracuda.

The trip on the Seahawk was great but just watching Mark fight that 32 inch seabass on that tiny rod was the most fun I had between the two trips.

You can't catch tomorrow what you kill today - please practice catch and release.