10-26-2003, 04:21 PM
I finally caught a legal ling cod. The last 3 trips have produced at least 50 lings from 15 inches to 21 inches. Finally a 30 incher bit and I was really lucky as I got him out of a big hangup (What's new). We caught a few reds but no bass. The water cooled off slightly and the surface fishing slowed down a bit. I noticed the sportboat count was pretty good but every sportboat in the area was within 100 yards of each other. They had the place really chummed up, birds everywhere. The tale of the day. I saw a school of yellowtail and a school of bonita circling the LA Bait receiver picking off "dines" that fell from the bait nets on the transfer process. The unfortunate thing is that about 50 other boats saw the same thing. There was no way you could land a yellow or bonita in that mess. My son hooked one that circled at least five boat anchor lines before he could set he hook.
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