Rail Time Fun

I was lucky to get to fish on the Rail Time this week.  We departed Wednesday night and headed straight for Catalina to pick up squid. While fishing for squid, Jake and Andy scooped 7 big flying fish.  We were excited!  If we got to fish for the bluefin, we were prepared.  As if that wasn't enough, we had a small swordfish swimming around the boat in the lights.  I watched for a while but I was exhausted so I crashed.  I was awakened at 4:30 the next morning when Gary (owner and Captain) said "time to get up as we'll be fishing in 20 minutes.  To my surprise, we were at San Nicolas Island.

We scrambled out of our bunks, grabbed some coffee and got our seabass outfit ready to fish.  Gary set us up in an area close to the Fortune which was the boat that had 62 seabass the previous day.  Fishing was slower than the previous day but we still managed 6 seabass and 11 yellowtail plus a wide open bite on 15 to 20 pound sheepshead!  We also had our share of black seabass, all released.  Beautiful fish.

The following day, fishing slowed to nearly a stop.  We had a few calicos, sheepshead and one nice yellowtail Steve caught at Catalina on our way home.

Great group of people to fish with - Jeff and his brother "Sheepshead Steve", Mark Fujimoto, Jim, and Steve Smith.  Andy did another outstanding job cooking and he helped Jake on deck.

Another fun trip thanks to Gary, Jake, Andy and of course Jeff - a great chartermaster.