. Anyway, boat in the water with no hassles and headed out to see what we could find. Had my friend Willie and Tim along. Tim is the guy who taught me how to catch rockfish on umbrella rigs. He fishes the Solomons. Now he knows what we have down here. Should have seen his smile everytime we pulled on in.
Having never fished this area before we decided to follow up on a report made on this page and went straight east out of the inlet and started marking fish and bait (no birds) at 30'.
We put out my normal 4 pole spread of chartruese and white umbrella rigs with 10" parachutes with 2 chartruese, 1 white and 1 purple heads. Had two poles up close again on wire at 55' with 16oz inline sinkers and two poles back at 85' with 12oz sinkers.
Marked fish in the area of the red and white bouy due east of the inlet with no hookups for about 45 minutes or so and then the birds started to work a bit. Finally boated our first fish (38") which I couldn't convince my crew to throw back, then another immediate hookup of a 39" which again went in the box. Needless to say by 11:30 we were having multiple hookups of fish in the 40" class. I finally boated a 42" after we threw 4 back in the 35-40" range and headed in with a full cooler. I believe we really left before the bite actually started.
Overall it was a very good day, albeit short because my crew wanted to keep fish under 40"
That will teach them huh!Oh by the way, I thought you guys on the radio talking about whales were aluding to big rockfish. I had no idea you were really talking about whales. What a surprise to see 3 of them around the red/white bouy
How about a warning next time fellas.Again, it was a great day chasing the rock. Picture is of (right to left) me, Tim and Willie.
Marty
