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Guadalupe Island 1963.....A fishin story Part 2
We left off with reels howling,guys yelling and me with a smile on my face,
This is what I came for,this is what I worked for so hard the past year,getting what overtime I could muster up my wife baby sitting,part time at a
hardware store on the weekend ends when I should have been fishing.
Four of us were hooked up and of course were headed in four different direction,mine due south,I hear a line break like a gun shot,someone had
panicked and buttoned up the drag a bit much that left three ,I looked down at my reel and realized I was nearly out of line,the old penn 500 with a
metal spool would hold 250 yd,s of 40# or somewhere on that order and I was empty already things just started and I,m finished,then he just came
unbuttoned....BAITCAST 0.....fish 1.
During all this chaos I could hear the captain saying things like "take it easy on thr drags guys these are good sized fish take care"...It was easy
for him just just sitting there and watching,two more were lost which left one fish,this guy was fishing with a 4/0 senator and seemed to know what to
do,after a long bout they gaffed a 50# or 60# class bluefin,what a beautiful fish!!
I had caught some good sized yellows and albies with this outfit but that was no contest,go to plan B.I had two heavyer outfits one a penn 68,much
larger reel loaded with 50# and a penn 6/0 with 60# on a trueline blank I made up myself,roller guides the works my favorite weapon of choice, did
alot of shark fishing with it.
The bite was finished just like that,spent the rest of the day chasing yellows,some big guys in the 30# and 40# class
To much sun and beer put alot of the guys down early that first day but not me and my buds we had worked to long and hard to get here,we would drink
the beer when we got home
Night time and the lights came on the fellow I mentioned early brought out the club again si I had to ask "what now? well he replyed "see all those
mackerel under the lights what we will do is catch a bunch of them for the tank and use some tonight"what will we be fishin for tonight? I asked"
anything that happens to be down there" he said with a smile on his face.
TIP...Yellowtail do not limit its feeding to daytime only,we caught some of the biggest fish at night using 2# macks right off the bottom,when buched
up like we were its hard to handle bigger baits so you take some dykes an clip the tails just enough to keep him from swimming ,lower him just off the
bottom,he will just lay there and shimmey giving off good vibes and bleed a little,the dinner bell is ringing!!!!
Getting ready for a trip like thiswas a real undertaking for me and my buds,rounding up the money,bringing our equipment up to date,new
drags,line,extra spools of line,getting in shape......getting in shape you say yup my back was never that strong,gave mr problems from time to time so
I didn,t want to take a chance,what to do?this is when I got the whole neighborhoods attention,I took my 6/0 tie the line to my back bummper on the
car and pull,I did this for what seemed hours on end until my neighbor came over to ask me what in the hell I was doing? I never thought a thing about
it until then," I,m just trying to catch my car"
The big hook ups in part three |
