{"id":254,"date":"2015-05-25T12:19:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T19:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamsharp-fishing.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2015-05-25T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T19:22:08","slug":"triton-overnight-to-catalina-for-quality-yellowtail-52415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamsharp-fishing.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Triton overnight to Catalina for Quality Yellowtail! 5\/24\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"My<\/a>
My Yellowtail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I had no plans for Memorial Day weekend, and when the rain was dropped from the forecast, I started looking for a good ride sometime over the weekend.<\/p>\n

I saw the Triton was doing overnight trips, and grabbed one of the last spots on a trip fishing Sunday.<\/p>\n

We left the dock a little late due to one late passenger. We tried unsuccessfully to squeeze him for a round of beers for everyone on board, and we were off to the bait dock. The sardines were lively\u2026 and HUGE!! Loaded up, we headed out.<\/p>\n

\"Weighing<\/a>
Weighing Jackpot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Captain Ryan introduced himself and the rest of the crew, second Captain Bryan, Shane and Chuck on deck, and Jeff in the galley. I rigged according to the captain\u2019s recommendation, 4\/0 hooks for flylining, and sacked out in my double sized bunk!<\/p>\n

We got to the island a little after one, and the crew set out lights to try for squid. They ended up with a few pieces, nothing huge. I\u2019d heard the yellowtail weren\u2019t really eating the squid, they were focused on fin bait. I knew the bass would love them though\u2026<\/p>\n

Up at gray light, Captain Ryan made a move and set us up on anchor. The yellowtail started biting almost immediately. We had a steady pick at them for about an hour and a half. Not sure if it was the time of day, or a skiff running over our chum line that shut them down, but by 7:30 it was pretty much over at that spot.<\/p>\n

\"Dad<\/a>
Dad with a yellowtail landed by his son<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had a breakfast plate while we made a move. A couple of slow spots later, we anchored up on a boiler rock and started a good pick at the calico bass. Most of them were short, but we did pull up a few that were legal. Most of those were returned. The one legal that I got was when I switched from fishing the squid to one of the big sardines, and flylined it way past the rock behind the boat.<\/p>\n

\"Young<\/a>
Young anger with a sheephead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The wind came up in the afternoon, making the boat swing wildly and fishing difficult. A couple of spots produced one more yellowtail each. We picked up a few sheephead and other bottom grabbers on spots set up to fish bass.<\/p>\n

We ended up with 16 yellowtail for the 20 passengers. Most of those were good quality fish, in the 15 to 20 pound range. Jackpot was just over 20.<\/p>\n

Great way to spend a day!!<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a>
Still no shortage of red crabs around<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I had no plans for Memorial Day weekend, and when the rain was dropped from the forecast, I started looking for a good ride sometime over the weekend. I saw the Triton was doing overnight trips, and grabbed one of the last spots on a trip fishing Sunday. We left the dock a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[31,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamsharp-fishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamsharp-fishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamsharp-fishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamsharp-fishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamsharp-fishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pamsharp-fishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/pamsharp-fishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamsharp-fishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamsharp-fishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamsharp-fishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamsharp-fishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}