kid's halloween rockfishing trip

[alantani]

launched out of half moon bay yesterday with my 11 daughter, and the dad and 13 year old from next door. we took an easy run down to pescadero and dropped our lines in at 60 feet of water. my kid hooked up on a 9 pound ling in 3 seconds. within 2.5 hours, we had a 6 pound ling, a 13 pound ling,

and 4 limits of rockfish. these kids are getting spoiled. if more then 3 minutes passed without a bite, they were telling me to reset. jeff caught a 4.5 pound vermillion.

the tigerfish dropped in on the exact same rock that i was working. got a nice photo.

i was cleaning fish the entire time we were running back to the barn. my back is still killing me, but it's great spending time on the water with the kids!

found these photos on the tigerfishsportfishing.com site. thanks captain chin!

 

[Seafarer228G]

Great pics alantani! Keep 'em coming.

-Jeff

 

[fishie1]

They are great pics and a great catch as well.

Why does the boat seem to be sitting so low in the last two photos?

 

[alantani]

yeah, i was looking at the same thing. two reasons, i think....

one, this boat is really loaded down. new four stroke 150 (500#'s), new four stroke T8 kicker and bracket (200#'s), one very full ice chest (150#'s), main 60 gallon fuel tank (400#'s), 30 gallons extra fuel (200#'s), tackle and crew (500#'s).

two, it's hard to tell from the photo, but there is a 5 foot swell coming in every 8-10 seconds that we're riding up and down on.

you should see what it looks like with 500 pounds of albacore on board! this is one tough little boat.