Post by fishoil on Aug 27, 2017 18:18:24 GMT -5
With the calm winds in the forecast it was just to much to resist, so we made the 4 hour drive north and took a trip out to the Rock on Friday 8/25. The seas were calm for the run out at 5:30 AM and stayed that way all day, other than a little chop that was running near shore on the ride back.
We started out on a shallow hump, drifting across it with two of us jigging and two casting spoons. We caught fish both ways but the spoons were doing a little better until the sun got up and the fish dropped down, then it was pretty much all jigging for the rest of the day with a few sight fished on spoons.
We landed a dozen or so fish on that spot then decided to move on. The next spot we stopped at was a fairly steep break dropping from about 75' down to 120'+. We marked fish on the flat 75' area and on the break, all of which were cooperative. We stayed on this spot for most of the rest of the day and caught fish steady with more doubles than I could count and quite a few triples too. We never quite pulled off all 4 of us fighting fish at the same time but did have all four lines out of the water at the same time because of fish several times.
For the last hour or so we checked a couple of small, deeper humps that have been good to us in the past. They were covered with fish but they turned out to be small ones so we called it a day about 3:30 PM and headed in.
The size of the fish on this trip was much better than the last one we took on July 4th. The only small fish we caught were on the humps in the last hour. We caught a lot of fish with many in the 10-20 lb range and I got a new personal best at 25 lbs 10 ounces. White 3 ounce jigs with white tails and a chunk of brined sucker was the bait of choice for the day. There were about a half a dozen other boats out there, 2 of which decided to troll circles around us and then jig on our drift line when they saw us catching fish. It's a big place but I can understand moving in on hot fish and they gave us plenty of room, so hopefully they had as good of day as we did.
If you ever get the chance to fish the Rock, jump at it. It's a very cool place to fish and the fishing is everything that you've heard it is!
We started out on a shallow hump, drifting across it with two of us jigging and two casting spoons. We caught fish both ways but the spoons were doing a little better until the sun got up and the fish dropped down, then it was pretty much all jigging for the rest of the day with a few sight fished on spoons.
We landed a dozen or so fish on that spot then decided to move on. The next spot we stopped at was a fairly steep break dropping from about 75' down to 120'+. We marked fish on the flat 75' area and on the break, all of which were cooperative. We stayed on this spot for most of the rest of the day and caught fish steady with more doubles than I could count and quite a few triples too. We never quite pulled off all 4 of us fighting fish at the same time but did have all four lines out of the water at the same time because of fish several times.
For the last hour or so we checked a couple of small, deeper humps that have been good to us in the past. They were covered with fish but they turned out to be small ones so we called it a day about 3:30 PM and headed in.
The size of the fish on this trip was much better than the last one we took on July 4th. The only small fish we caught were on the humps in the last hour. We caught a lot of fish with many in the 10-20 lb range and I got a new personal best at 25 lbs 10 ounces. White 3 ounce jigs with white tails and a chunk of brined sucker was the bait of choice for the day. There were about a half a dozen other boats out there, 2 of which decided to troll circles around us and then jig on our drift line when they saw us catching fish. It's a big place but I can understand moving in on hot fish and they gave us plenty of room, so hopefully they had as good of day as we did.
If you ever get the chance to fish the Rock, jump at it. It's a very cool place to fish and the fishing is everything that you've heard it is!
