Pacific Dawn Paradise

Guest blogger, Jim Carlisle, has this report for our August 26th L. A. Rod and Reel Club trip:

Well, our buddy Capt. Peaches really put us on the fish yesterday on our 1.5 day trip. We killed 100 albacore (25-32#) by 12:30. At that point Pat hit the bunk to rest his sore back and turned the boat over to Opie. We then played catch and release for another 100+ fish before we ran out of bait at about 4pm.

Then it was time for the crew fishing contest. Opie would drive the boat up on boiling fish, then run out the back of the galley, grab his jig rod and throw out a trolling jig. I think he did 3 or 4 fish in a row that way casting his tuna close and he smoked the rest of the crew. Was very fun seeing the crew letting off steam for an hour or two. The more we moved inside the fleet in the afternoon, the thicker the fish got. Seemed like the whole frickin ocean was alive in there….. bait, fish, birds, porpoise…...

Fun day on the water and got back to the dock at 6 a.m. this morning. Only bad part was having to go into work today but I made it in by 10 a.m.

Thanks for the report Jim.

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Jeff Fukawa provided some of the photos to which I added my own. By the way, Jeff was the Jackpot winner too. Enjoy the photos!

Here's one of my albacore and this is Lynne's 31 lb. albacore she caught on 20# line. Congratulations Lynne.

Here's Opie in action -bringing in his albacore, gaffing his own albacore and dead albacore on deck.

Mike on his albacore.

Crew cutting fish - which took them until 11:20 p.m.