Started out of The Don Armeni launch at about 5 am. Myself and two buddies were fishing west point at twilight. Using many flasher colors and mainly white hoochies we had consistent bites from sun up till we left at around noon. Only two keepers in the net but it was hot. The fish won once again today but the fights were well worth it as well as a couple 5 lb fish to boot.

17 lb fluorocarbon leaders were getting snapped but mainly due to horsing them in I believe. The fish want to fight so lighter drag would be great if we could remember during the excitement of fighting them and we would probably boat a lot more fish.

Flashers were all 11" with e chips. Colors were, purple, red, half green half white, green and white. We bounce around and they all got hit. Usually a different favorite day to day but the ultra white P-line squids seem to work best behind them. They are the sq45's and the color number is 190 and we were loading them up with blue anchovy jelly in the heads. these are the uv squids. Not the glow. Seemed to make a difference as we used many. Also ran flashers off our downriggers to add to our school of flashers clipped above the balls.

Mainly fishing the down riggers around 120' all day but did hit a few on the drop and one on the rise after popping it off the down rigger. Not any luck fishing shallow in the early morning at all. Once we get deep, fish on.

Maintained about 2.8 mph all day adjusting as we ran against the tide at points. When we would slow down and check the gps for our speed, we almost always got a hit as we brought it back up to faster speeds within ten minutes so I think more than anything speed and depth is the key because these fish are hungry!!

Only from 8-9 am did it really slow down. Other than that fish on every 15 minutes or so. Lost a lot of leaders!! Anybody catch fish with my hoochies in their mouth? Lol

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