Launched before dawn again today at Escondido. I had a great trip compared to last week's trip. I started out catching a short calico and 2 nice sandbass in 10 minutes, then I went to make bait. I caught a few perfect size smelt and a medium mackeral. I slow trolled the mackeral for a mile or so and got a bite. I brought my line in to see if there were any teeth marks on the mack and about 20 feet under my kayak something evil hit it. It grabed the bottom half of my mackeral and sawed through my trap hook. I was surprised to see only the mackeral head still on the hook when I brought it in. I retied and had another fish do some damage to one of my smelt. I thinking T-sharks. The rest of the day was pretty slow until the end when I landed a 24" halibut on a 5" mackeral FT. My dad who was diving saw a 60lb Black Seabass in 60 feet of water. Pretty good for a big moon. Ill be heading out tommorow but Im too lasy to rig up for T-sharks so Ill probly just fish plastic all day.
Tommy

"something evil" LMAO. That's a good one. Nothin like kayakin in shark infested waters...
-Brian

Yeah, I just looked at the torn up mack and I knew that that was the only word to describe it. It might have been a sea lion, I'll have to order some mackeral bombs off of you...
REPORT- Went to Escondido and the swell came up slightly overnight. Made it out OK, didnt even try to make bait, just went straight to plastics. I fished by the moored sailboats and caught a limit of dink bass. I was farming a lot of them so when I finally started hooking them, I was repeatedly setting the hook on 6 inch bass. Probly would have been funny to see underwater. I finally caught a 13 inch 'but, and a 20-21 inch 'but. The 13 incher was caught on the shallow running fastrac and the other was on a Kilime FT. I have been getting the wrong impression of the Fastrac all this time because I have been using the shallow running version. Ill have to give the deep diving one a try. I have been loosing too many FTs in the kelp.
Next week Ill target the T-Sharks. It seems I only catch them when Im trolling for halibut. Too bad you cant target both on the same rig. Anyone have any advice on for an adequate T-shark rig?
Thanks,
Tommy

I meant hook them, I still haven't caught one.
Tommy

Perhaps I could engineer some "nuclear mackerel bombs" for the sharks... LMAO.
-Brian