I met my friend Daniel and his dad at the bait barge this evening. It was the first time I've float tubed with em since they've gotten their tubes. I've fished with Daniel many times at Carneros and on the hawk, but never from float tubes. At around sunset I started fishing for seabass. Got bit around sundown and set the hook into a 20 inch halibut. It was weird to get it on the straight wind with a 5" bait and 1 oz. head. Oh yeah, I was throwing rainbow trout color. Just before 8:30 I hooked up again to a small seabass. Within the next couple casts I hooked another seabass but it broke the line (the first seabass had wrapped all around the line and I forgot to check it for knicks. You know how that goes). I hooked up once more over the course of the night but the fish came unbottuned. Man, I was having the worst luck with getting fish to the boat. Daniel's dad got one that was just at 28, might've been legal, might've been short so he decided to just throw it back. The evening was far from bad, although it wasn't as good as last night.
-Brian