quote:Originally posted by dmurph
Decided to ruff it out and drop the lines regardless of the savage seas today. Made our way out to the bell through 4 to 5 foot rollers . Went a bit further towards QA and trolled in with the wind and started hitting fish right off the bat. Getting the fish in the boat was a struggle today , spit hooks , failed nettings tangles with the upper rods you name it. Think we were getting a bit spoiled limiting in 1.5 hours each day. The water finally died off , the sun was blazing and we ended up at the bell with 5 in the box and decide to troll in through the mile markers looking for a spring. I had heard some promising reports. Trolled in and decided to clean the fish in the box , right around the 2nd marker I look up from for minute to see my rod going crazy , drop the knife kick the sock aside pop the rod out off the holder and its on . Hooked into a beast of a fish spooled out may times , near miss with a seal but in the end I had my first tyee in the boat , 33.5 lbs red spring . Fish hit at 620pm high slack at 36 ft