I really needed to get out on the water to decompress and relief some stress from some personnel things going on in my life. I made the last minute decision to make a cannonball run to Morro Bay yesterday for a 3/4 day trip for some oceanic and fish-ical therapy.....
My trip started out a little rocky when the Denny's I stopped at was out of coffee due to broken coffee makers, how does a Denny's not have coffee at 3 am! The rest of the ride down was uneventful and I arrived a few minutes early for check in. The weather was forecasted to be great and 4 people were no shows so the boat left with a light load of 22 people and only 4 rental rods.... I liked those numbers, plenty of room for everyone to have a little extra room to move around.
We pushed off the dock right at 7 am and where at the fishing grounds by 8:30 am and our was game on right from the start.... First drop resulted in a nice sized lingcod weighting in right around 10#! After I put the First lingcod in my bag it must have been lingcod after lingcod for the next 40 minutes. It was great to have my Lingcod limit within the first hour of our trip. After I had my two fish limit and upgraded to bigger lingcod I started to give away lingcod. The boat moved to several other fishing spots and people were picking up nice size red Rockfish at various times throughout the day. I was in the running for the jackpot lingcod until about the last hour when a guy up front landed a solid 15 to 16 lb lingcod. The fishing was so good everyone had their limits by just after lunch so the boat headed towards the dock a little early. Overall it was an amazing day on the water with great fishing dolphins whales sea lions and of course the ever-present sea otters by Morro Rock.
On my ride home driving through Paso Robles I encountered a very small wild fire on the side of the highway. I pulled over to assist two other pedestrians to help put out the fire. I guess even though technically it was my day off once you're a firefighter you never truly have a day off!
Hopefully I will get a chance to fish with some of you soon before the season ends!
Pj
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Nice PJ!!
thanks for the report!!!!!
Good day, PJ --
Nice fish, and you were in the right place to put out the fire.
Best,
Fred
Good fishin'! 8)
Nice. Perfect size reds for eating
PJ,
excellent report and one question for you!
Did you use your BRAND NEW 501 on this trip???
PHOTOS please.
Wayne
Nice day, nice fishin', nice fish, and a great report and pictures!
Thanks for posting it up for us folks that are only wishing we could go fishing.
josa1
Which boat were you on PJ? Congratulations on those limits of high grade fish, and thanks for the great report and beautiful photos!
PJ good job fishing and firefighting. Dominick
Cool trip and hot fish,,,,,love it ;D
Good fishing PJ!