Probably seals. Frustrating.

Loving the hook jaws you're finding.

Sounds like a fun day!

Fished Newport Harbor with Peter. I arrived a couple hours before him at 1600. 10-15mph wind in the face, cold. Awful tide swing, low at noon and high at 0400 the next day, all you need to know.

Found a decent sized blackgill rockfish washed up, relatively fresh. Somebody f@cked up and probably learned that they f@cked up once they got to the harbor.



I wanted to experiment with a floating Powerbait egg on a short c-rig on UL to see if I could find a little critter to commit. I got several taps but nothing committed.

Switched over to flukes on neck breakers once Peter arrived around 1800. Wind still howling. We ended up each getting one.



Left around 19:45.

I wanna make Tuesdays my weekday fishing days for the time being, to accommodate Alicia's school schedule among other things. Next Tuesday is a little ridiculous with the wind and rain but sometimes that's fun.

Good luck. Getting tired of reading fish reports at work.

Drive by trout running into the line.

So cool.

Well, I needed to get some more fishing in since it was trout weather out there and raining. I went to my spot but saw no signs of life and decided to try a different lake and see if a change helped.  There were Pelicans and Cormorants everywhere!

I get the two rods out and just turn around to head back to the truck and get out of the rain when I heard something creaking!  Both rods doubled over already!  I grabbed the rod that I thought had the biggest fish and fought them in.  I kept one and released the other since the hook was only caught in it's whisker and easy to get out.



I send out two fresh baits and get back to the truck when I look back and another double header!  I got both in, but one squirmed it's way off the hook and slithered back into the puddle when I was taking care of the other.



I put two more fresh baits out and eventually catch two more although they kept getting smaller, so I decided I really wanted to spend the rest of the morning on a trophy trout hunt.

I moved back to the other lake and had a few mystery bites that did the same thing Dave and I had the day before.  Huge hits and gone the moment I grabbed the rod.  I did finally get a little catfish, so that was 7 fish for the morning so far.

Then I started putting everything in the truck to leave as I was hungry and no trout anywhere.  I was just ready to grab the last rod out when it just got crushed with a bite!  I for sure thought this was a cat since it felt heavy but never came to the surface.  It was dogging me and had less then impressive runs so it HAD to be a cat...

Then I saw it... HOLY CRAP!  A Big Hook-jaw Rainbow! Holy sh!t!



Just over 4# on the lip gripper.

What a "Last Cast" fish!

I even came back in the afternoon, but EVERYONE on the lake was fishing the spot... apparently everyone saw me catch it so I moved around and tried other spots for no luck.

Well, I just had a great interview so finger's crossed!  Thanks for reading!

Dave really wanted to get out trout fishing again so we planned on hitting the lakes when they opened.  Well, I get to the lakes literally 2 minutes late and the only person in there fishing was on the spot I was going.  Grrrr....

Unfortunately, I was limited to where I could go since Dave is not super mobile so I needed some flat ground.  I decided to hit a spot that I caught a bunch of fish earlier in the season.



I got slammed 4 times but they all dropped it the minute I grabbed the rod.  Dave was having some fun with me by saying I should be using trebles!



Well, finally got one to stick, but I knew right away it was the wrong kind and pretty small.



It was about time for me to head back, but Dave stayed.  Before I left, I watched him get two huge hits that doubled over his rod just to drop the bait!  HA!  It made me feel better since he WAS using trebles!  lol

Well, I left and Dave had 3 more hook ups that all magically vanished the second he grabbed the rod.  Oh well...  I really wish I knew what was going on there.  This happens way too frequently in the puddles, and I have no answers since the bait always comes back perfect!

I made a bunch of tacos on the Blackstone, but I spent a lot of time working on the ribs.  I thought per the recipe that I could get them done in 3 hours, but LIES!!!!!

5 hours later and they looked/tasted perfect!  I do like a saucy rib, so I painted them with some high end BBQ sauce and they were quite the hit!



I individually sliced them and two huge racks never stood a chance!



It was some great stuff!