Alarm rings at 4:30 am. Quick cup of coffee and I'm on the road. An hour later, I see 3- 4 ft wind swell - not good. We launch anyway and I take two waves to the chest. The second knocks me backward and fills the kayak's deck with water. Unfazed, I paddle harder.
Twenty minutes later, I stop by a squid boat. His lights are still on with the possibility of squid under his boat. I spend a couple minutes with the squid jig checking but quickly notice an angler already hooked up some 100 yards further out. I decide to forgo the squid and break out a Salas Scrambled Egg jig.
A couple minutes of hard paddling and I cruise into an area that was good the previous week. I let the Salas sink until it hits the bottom at 140 ft and start reeling as fast as possible. On maybe the sixth crank, there is solid weight. I keep reeling until the fish is peeling line of the Avet MXJ. I'm hooked up!
10 minutes later, I see color and release a healthy 20 lb Yellowtail. A quick visual check: terns are circling, the fish finder is beeping and pilot whales are cruising past and 5 others are all hooked up! I drop the Salas again and reeling off the bottom, another Forkie hits hard and peels 40 yards off the small but powerful Avet. 10 minutes later, I see another 20 lb Yellowtail and release the fish wanting to hook up again without having to bleed and stow the fish and clean the deck...
I drop down again and within 3 minutes... I'm on again! For the next two hours it was like this. I caught six fish that day. At around 10 am, the wind blew heavy from the south and it became impossible to fish safely in the kayak.
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