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Spanish fishing 5-7-08

Thursday, May 08, 2008

Yesterday was one of them picture perfect weather days.  I fished with my neighbor, Al and his friend John. The wind picked up just as we were loading the boat to go fishing. Then John’s boat developed an engine problem at the ramp that required his mechanic to come fix it ( he had just had it serviced too). He found the problem and we shoved off about an hour or so later.

Pictured is Al with three of the fish we caught.

Due to the choppy conditions and late start we scraped our original plans to head to the school house to try for kings. Instead we stayed near shore and went after the Spaniards. We caught a total of 6 nice ones with the biggest weighing almost 3 pounds. We watched and followed the birds circling and diving.  We were able to get close enough to one school for sight casting but they quickly dispersed.  We landed one Spanish and a blue fish. 

After several more attempts we switched over to trolling as the schools were moving quickly. I don’t think the bait schools were very big so the Spanish were on the move.  That ended up being the right strategy as we could cover a lot of water and follow the birds.  We five Spanish and several blues trolling using Yo-zuri deep divers - clown was the hot color. The first Spanish was caught sight casting with a purple/silver Marie jig.

We had a great time and boated some decent fish.  It was nice to fish with Al again and to met and fish with John. Enjoyed it guys!