It was not the best trip at all...probably there worst in years according to Greg the guy who does there website who came out and fished with us. First off I'm glad I brought my rain gear as I almost froze to death. 3 shirts,a sweatshirt,and my raingear and I was just comfortable. I'll start out by saying that the A.A. is an extremely well run boat and Brian "my Capt.for my trip" worked really hard to do as well as we did. I ended up with a 25 albie on the second jig stop and that held for jackpot until the last drop of the evening when I got beat by a pound or less...That's the breaks we've all been the guy who gets beat out at the end or comes out smelling like a rose at the end. Fishing was extremely tough with very few fish caught on bait an almost exclusive jig bite..Black/Puple and Zuccinni...If you had a Dine and a 2 oz. torpedo sinker and got back there fast you might get one on the slide ....My problem was everyone of the 31 guys onboard not trolling was sliding all over the top of one another and it just wasn't worth the hassle....We had some guys who refused to do the tuna shuffle which cost not just a few of us fish. I think I landed 40% of my bait fish by being sawed off by people who tossed bait on a hot rail....and got bit....so while your fish has slowed and your working her in ZING the fresh one takes you out. I was useing 25#test a tuna ring with 20 florocarbon and a 3/8 oz sliding sinker and a 1# flyliner on chovie and 2# circle on the Dine's while sliding the 2 0z sinker rig....I did not see one fish caught on iron or Plastic lord knows everyone tried....The hot ticket was the kid who was loaded up with 15# florocarbon an ultra small hook and tiny splitshot.....I wouldn't recomend that rig in the gorilla warfare that was going on at the rail except that when his fish bit it would sizzle away "kid had a "GROAN"..... COFFEGRINDER" because his drag was so light get away from the crowd and he would eventually end up in the bow by himself and land his fish....I doubt that it would have worked that way had we been on a bite like my trips from last year but I think it might behoove a guy to bring that set-up "Minus the Coffegrinder" for some of the tough bite situations that come up.....You did spend bucks to get there you just might want that option... I ended up with 4 20-25# albies and a huge bone that went 12 and change that put up a hell fight..American Angler is WORLD class....Captain,Crew,Chef's and acomendations....Food was KILLER and it's always good to be away from work. Thanks to you guys who gave me some tips and ask away and I'd be happy to help out with anything I missed.

KELLY