LAST EDITED ON Jun-28-00 AT 07:18 PM (PST)

With Rob only having a couple weeks in town until he's gone for good, Brian #2 and I decided to make the most of it and all jump on the overnight leaving Tuesday night. We attempted to sleep until we rolled up at the spot (Eagle Rock) at Santa Rosa. 2 am, up and catching squid. I guess around 4 or so a couple seabass started coming in, but mostly barracud. Rob did a good job on the barracudas early. They were more of a nuisance than anything else. They would cruise the bottom so you couldn't avoid them. The barracuda finally slowed and the seabass picked up. We were fishing live squid on dropper loops or flylined with 1/2 oz sliders. We stayed at Eagle Rock until the afternoon and nailed the seabass. I got myself a 23 pounder that was 2 pounds off of the jackpot. I also picked up a couple more at Eagle Rock. We had one yellow come in and we seen a bunch of them boil on the corner of the stern. Rob got bit but the fish didn't stick and Brian broke one off. The seabass bite surprisingly held up ALL DAY. From about 4, 4:30, all the way through the last cast of the day. We moved out to the frontside of the island in the afternoon where the jackpot fish was caught and Rob proceeded to school everyone on the boat. With a persistent bite throughout the day, the boat got limited out. I got 5, #2 got 5 and Rob got 9 (Not counting all the cudas we all had). This trip was incredible. It was a once in a lifetime trip and the three of us will probably never get into a seabass bite like that again. Amazing. We expected the bite to die off around 7, or 8 but, it didn't. Hopefully Rob will follow up this message with the photography. We got em good.
-Brian