As I finished up working I figured i better do some research on getting out to fish. Evan hasbeen bugging me as to when we were going to go. The local fishing off the pier hasn't looked to promising. Long story short - I found an OVERNIGHT charter that goes out deep sea fishing that was pretty cheap and didn't have too many booked on it for Thursday night. Amy and kids got back just in time to eat and pack some stuff and then took us down to the dock for an 8 pm departure. I was a little unsure of how Evan would be able to handle being on a boat that long .
There were 19 total on the boat plus a crew of four. They had triple stacked bunk beds and a stocked galley. Shortly after departure, we slept for a while and then were woken at about 2 am when we reached Clemente island about 50 some miles off shore. We started fishing - was really cool to see flying fish in the spotlight beaing chased by seals. Some of the flying fish ran into the boat - i guess that would probably hurt. Got a couple there and then moved. This island is like a giant mountain that just comes up out of the water. Evan caught a fish before i did - as he usually reminds me. Forgot to mention that we were using live squid as bait - this in itself is just cool. Luckily, was smart enough to not wear good clothes as they do spray ink on you.
We had a pretty good run with the small fish - white fish, calico bass, sheephead (not anything like the crappy lake erie sheep head - these are red, black, and white white with big teeth and are apparently good to eat).
We then moved to backside of the island in hopes of getting some of the sunrise bite of huge sea bass that run along the island. Just as we were getting set up, we got a call from the US Navy that they were going to be doing live fire out there and we had to move. Tried another spot and got some more small fish. This is still fun, especially when you can see the seals and sea lions coming up from under the boat.
Without going on too much about this it was really cool. People on board were cool and thoroughly impressed that Evan didn't get sea sick, bored and that he was able to handle fishing next to "pros" without issue. One of the deckahnds told me he sees a lot of saltwater fishing for him in the future.
He only took a few short naps when we moved from place to place (which sometimes took a couple of hours). In the end, there were none of the sea bass or tunas for us. Evan outfished me. We were two hours late getting back to the dock. All told, we were at sea for 24 hours. Really weird feeling when you get off the boat - felt like you were still swaying all of the time. Really tired and went right to bed after a badly needed shower.
Evan waiting for us to get to the next spot.
We are 50 miles out to sea and this island is a Navy training site - it's about 25 miles long.
Evan and his whitefish while we were on the move.
Probably should have taken more pictures, but didn't really occur to me at the time. Sophie wanted to know why we didnt take pictures of the live squid we used as bait. My response - why would I take a picture of the bait?
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