Well I left the tube at home for the first time in a while and fished from a boat. Last week I had decided to be "sick" and go hit the YFT, but there was 40 reservations. So, I hit the 6:30 1/2 day trip. The owner was running the boat and when it was time to go there was no passengers. We left on time for a goof off. Including me there was 5 of us (the 3 regular crew, one in training and me only a seasonal DH) on a 65' boat. Headed for a secret spot for big Sheepies (these things supposedly will bust you off on 40lb). But, we had only frozen squid, no #'s for the spot and it was foggy (no landmarks visible). The long of it was we didn't find it though we came close. Captain decided to hit it again for the 12pm trip ( really rare for him to fish this with passengers ), so I went back out. We had bait, no fog, and only 21 passengers. It was soooo fun. The sheepies never did bite, but the buts, yellow tail, sand bass and gophers did. I dumped 4 yellows, boated 2 (15+), 2 gopher rockfish (4+), 1 sandy (4ish), and handful of other stuff. It was so wide towards the end that I hooked 2 yellows (got one), plus the 2 gophers, and the bigger sand bass all on rubber. Good way to break in my new 12lb stick with it's new sl20. Plus, I wasn't stressing out at school. Any ways sorry for the long post, got excited all over again.

Amish ED