Love it.. Definitely looks like fun, nothing gets the Adrenalin going like a good solid run, no matter what is one the line.
I just want to know if that is a Sealine x20 or x40..
T's are up and down the coast right now but there are some huge models off Santa Cruz. A friend of mine trolling for salmon up there had something come in eat every bait in the water then it ate both down rigger balls and snapped them off thier cables the other day. Completely annihilated his Salmon gear: he lost both downrigger balls and a rod to them. Not to mention all the terminal tackle in the water.
I tell ya it makes me feel like taking a long drive with the skiff.
I've seen threshers do that here in the past during the May run at Newport, but it's been a while, over half a decade. Had a friend there back then that had the same thing happen while trolling big game gear. Even ate some surface baits on the short corner, he lost all but one with several 50Ws stripped.....; That said the fish he landed was a personal best over 400 pounds.
Those bigger offshore adult models are brutes, I love them, they really kick ass. I had one sound 1200 feet down off Rocky and had to follow her five miles before I could get her up on forty mono. After she was down over an hour she came up on her own and started jumping. Never could fo lifted her with the line alone, she was one hell of a fish.
Nice going on the juvi T. Congrats on the release. Means a lot to old shark farts like me.
A word of caution though.... Remember not everyone seeing this stiff is going to be cool or let them go, so the kayak fleet might want to be careful about posting a bunch of reports on the small T's on the web.
Fishing is slow offshore now, due to the cold water. The main mass of Albacore is way down still below the 1010 trench around the 295. That's more then a hundred miles run. Some PB guys are doing it and getting fish but most cant' do it, and it's been scratchy anyway. Lots' of guys looking for a local bite right now. PB guys watch this board (just look at the hits to response numbers) and they could come in and just slay those young T's in number. Offshore Threshers are hard to target but when they bunch up in close they can really hammer them. I've seen it first hand in the LA area. 40+ T's all under 200 pounds at the MDR ramp in a single day, taken out of a single cove off Malibu. Just not pretty.
Since the gillnets were forced outside we've seen a big rise in T numbers, when I got my 400+ they were extremely rare that size, now we see them every year. That said those Juvi T's are still easy targets and easy to over exploit. The gillnets can't get them now but hook and line guys can. I've written a lot about Threshers over the years, even articles, but I backed up on posting web info, just because they are so easy to target and exploit.
I'm not bashing your catch and release, or even report. Just saying there is more people can exploit at La Jolla then just homeguards or Seabass.
Good job! like I said it looks like a hell of a lot of fun.
Jim