Two days of dedicated deep jigging 2 days of jigging with Capt Mike Ellis of Relentless Sportsfishing out of Venice, LA. I had the pleasure to fish with Felix Locicero, Frank Moncrief, Eugene Pacowski from the East Coast and Andrew Fernandez from California. We went for sport on the 1st day which saw us hitting some decent sized AJs in the 20-50lb range, we had our limits by late morning but not without losing bunch of jigs to unstoppables that headed for structures.
At one rig, we ran into a school of wahoo and many lines got nicked before Eugene landed a good 60lb wahoo that won the jackpot for the day. Sharks were also a nuisance as many fish came back with only the head. Andrew jigged a huge red drum on one of the buoys, the biggest I've seen so far. On the second day, the plan was to fill ice box with table fish. We hit a few shallow rigs for snappers and got close to limits before heading for deeper rigs in search for good eating groupers and groupers were there waiting to be caught. In between good eating fish we also caught some decent size jack crevalle and cobias that put up good fight and it was Eugene again who got the day jackpot with a hefty king mack.
I got myself my first 20+lb cobia on a falling jig, those fish fight hard! Over the 2 days we caught 14 species of fish, really interesting trip. Overall I rate this a superb trip with good weather, knowledgeable Capt and most importantly excellent company. Everyone went home happy, satisfied and plenty of fillets! Randy http://www.anglers-proshop.com Randy