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