The wind died down, so we headed offshore again, out to Dog Ballard. We dragged some cut baits on the bottom with no success at all. We had some live pinfish that also got no love.
So then we switched to trolling, dragging some plugs and cigar minnows with dusters. Finally landed a big spanish mackeral on the duster, and had an 8" black sea bass hit the deep plug. It was bigger than he was.
Sunday, the weather forecast looked great, and it lived up to it's promise.
Ran about 15 miles offshore to a public number, and it already had 4 boats on it by 800am. One of them was a 16 to 18 JON BOAT. Completely crazy and foolhardy to go out that far in that kind of boat.
Nothing biting there, so we began trolling.
We ran cigar minnows again, along with some spoons. Finally got a solid hit on the cigar minnow, and landed a nice 30" king.
Headed closer in to the OAR2k reef, and the wind died completely. Picked up a grunt and some black sea bass, but no other signs of life, but it was a beautiful day.
Headed back to state waters, and tried some deep plugs again for grouper with no success. Several times we saw what appeared to be huge bait pods underneath, but nothing seemed to be chasing them. But they showed up nicely on the sonar.
