I went fishing with my friends Taylor and Andrew yesterday. We headed out to some nice hard bottom about 25 nautical miles and started trolling ballyhoo with a variety of skirts and chuggers. We only had three lines out when the port side line went off. Andrew reeled in a nice 6 - 7 pound Dolphin. We were all pumped up thinking we were onto the bite. We had one other knock down a few minutes later, well two within in seconds of each other but we think it was the same fish. That was it for the next 3 hours.
We switched over to bottom fishing but were mostly catching trash fish. So we decided to head over to the WR2. We stuck out some trolling gear when we started getting close and pretty soon we were getting some knock downs but no hook-ups - from the look of the bite marks on the bait we figured it must have been small dolphin. Then we got a line burner, I picked up the rod and was holding on when the reel just quit buzzing. Pulled on the rod, no fish. Pulled the line in and saw that the fish had bite through the line at the hook - the skirt and chin weight were still attached (held in place by the nose spring) - looked like the work of a Wahoo.
Then we switched over to bottom fishing again and caught some nice really nice black sea bass on Roscoe jigs.
We headed back about 4pm making great time in the calm seas and arrived back at the ramp before 5:30. Slow catching day but we had a great time and enjoyed the nice weather!
