I have been waiting for a report to see how it went yesterday..
Very tough fishing for everyone out there yesterday but at least they were all good grade fish.
We hit two troll fish early. One on a mackerel fly tied with olive grizzly hackle and some green bucktail that Cabezon was dragging. And about 2 seconds later the "Kraken" squid fly got hit by a hefty albacore that had my imagination fired up for a few seconds.
After the first two fish it was deadsville until 2 or 3PM. We hit a few more troll fish with one or two legit cast/retrieve fly fish on each. The last stop we actually had them boiling for about 20 min (amazing considering we still had some live herring which is all the bait dock had). Think we put 3 onboard before the timer was up and had to head for the barn. Kudos to Capt Nick for maximizing our time and putting us on fish in on a tough day.
Other flies that worked were a small articulated squid (not mine), and a mackerel pattern of mine that the fish Nick posted ate as I was headed up to the bow as we were sliding to a stop. "WTF, why is my line tight?... doh!".
One other thing of note is Cabezon broke the dry spell when he was stripping in to check the fly when a fish boiled on it in the propwash. He reactively set, missed the fish, and wrapped the fly on a rail stantion on the port side where I was standing and BS'ing with Nick over the top of the cabin. I got the fly loose, he chucked it back into the propwash and immediately hooked up. That fish hit only 2 rod lengths aft!
We did troll a black and purple cedar plug most of the day but all fish were on flies (IIRC). Only lost 2 to pulled hooks and ended the day with 9 total.
Back out tomorrow, so hoping for better reports today. I'll be dragging the "Kraken" fly again on my 14wt. Now rigged with a 100# crimped shock leader... just in case. Probably should be 200#, but I'd rather hook a big BFT, and lose it, than not hook one at all.
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