Opted out of chasing shiny pretty ones on the big river today and made the decision to chase ugly brown ones in the big blue pond. First ocean voyage for 2015 on the F/V eyeFISH paid off handsomely.

Superstar in the rockfish category was JesseM. Amongst the dozen or so dinker throw backs and the dozen or so keepers, the boy clearly came out on top. Check out this brute!





But ALAS.... Poseidon would soon snuff out his fire as the chop and swell crescendoed to the point where even his precautionary morning dose of Dramamine was rendered utterly ineffective. Down for the count!

Good thing he brought his lovely lady Katie along to pick up the slack as we ventured even FURTHER off shore for even bigger and uglier brown critters. (Yeah, I guess ya find out who yer friends are!) First pass and looky what she bounced up as he lay slumped over in misery....



Lings and big bass continued to hammer our bounced goods seemingly at will.... and who were we to argue? No complaints from f4b....





Even the captain managed to luck into one...



Friggin' FAT-head...



Ms Katie later hooked THE monster ling of the day. Much to her dismay, the critter's massive headshakes and bulldogged determination would eventually earn the unseen leviathan its freedom.

It didn't take much longer for our hotspot to literally BLOW UP... and after taking a good wet one over the transom, we decided to retreat to calmer, more sheltered water. Couple more passes and a few more keeper sized bass and we were content to call it a day. (JesseM, "Lawd have muh'cy, Hallelujah!")

Finished the fishing day by hauling up 7 keeper creepy crawly's out of several dozen in the pots for the evening feast. Pulled out of W'port and ran back to town to deliver some ocean love gifts to a chosen few before heading back for the barn. This is what the team eventually kept for ourselves.



After the requisite cleanup after a good salty excursion, a fine meal was prepared and enjoyed by all. Well.... except for the GLARING absence of crab butter for the captain (GD domoic acid alert!).

Should have been in bed an hour ago after a near-instantaneous case of food coma, but a few moments on the keyboard quickly summoned that dreaded "second wind". Hope it was worthwhile.

Tight lines all.