Had a whole long post typed out and it disappeared. Fished the PCYC Mako Tournament last weekend on the Team Okuma Pro Cat.

Here are the details...

Day 1 - Ran to the outer edges of the grid. No fish - Bad tides, not many fish in the 40 mile grid but the ones that were there, were good ones. Team OZ put a 747 pounder on the boat and only one other boat had a weighable fish (185#)

Day 2 - Fished the gap between Anacapa and Santa Cruz until we drifted to the edge of the sanctuary. Picked up and moved to the 1000 fathom curve. Had a rat 30 pound Mako doing hot laps around the boat. tried to pet him on his head when he would get next to the boat. He was ran off by a dimented seal that wanted to eat him. He showed back up right as the tournament ended so I caught him. Great fight... lasted about 7 seconds.

Let the rat go and emptied the chum bucket and started to throw the bait overboard. We looked up and saw a good sized fin coming at the baot which turned out to be a big blue. Caught it and as we were cutting it loose... abotu a 150 - 200 pound Mako was right below it. It sunk out so we went home.

Tough bite... only 4 fish weighed in for the two day tourney.

The new 28 Pro Cat is a sweet boat. Very good ride and fishes well.



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