King fishing - 07-07-2007

Left the dock at 5:45 this morning - gathered some nice pogies very close to home and headed out of Rich's inlet with high hopes for a spectacular day of catching. First stop was Dallas Rocks. We had the baits in the water by 6:40 - fished there till after 8. Nothing but a Barracuda to show for it.

We moved further out to a place called 9 mile rock, just before we got there we found a huge patchy weed line. I saw a huge fish jump a few hundred yards ahead of us (can't be sure but I think it was a sailfish), then we spot a dolphin off our starboard side but couldn't get him to come play in our spread. Sight casted to him but no go there either. No further action at this spot, save one shark on the down rigger line.

Tried a couple of other spots and then we hit pay dirt near 18 mile rock. We found large schools of bait and worked around them. We boated some nice kings and parted ways with some toothy sharks before we spotted the dark clouds to the southwest of us (headed northeast - toward us).

So we raced for the hill, just beating the thunderstorm and rain to the dock.

Total for the day:
Invited into the boat - 4 kings (biggest was 12 pounds).
Denied permission to board: 1 big stinky, 4 sharks
Declined invitation to play - one gaffer dolphin