Newport Rockies

[AirborneYak]

Met up with Octico-John at 0500 and got prepped ready to hit Newport. Got to the AO around 0600 and found Will- William Novotny already there. My guts told me I had to negotiate a hostage situation, so I drove for about 10 mins to find a bathroom to take a crap. Glad to report that all the hostages were released and I got back and we hit the water about 0630ish.

With the sun still trying to peak through the morning sky, we finally get to our fishing grounds around 0700. The bite started off slow and nothing was hitting our squid. Will was already marking fish, but nothing was taking. We were soaking our bait, when a HUGE pod of dolphins ran through our AO. Words or video can't do justice to how awesome it was witnessing it!

Watch "Large pod of dolphins" on YouTube
Large pod of dolphins: http://youtu.be/egJFBMK2774

After what seemed like forever, the bite finally takes off and we all started hooking up. We had a few double up. The majority of the fish caught were too small to make even one taco. I ended with 6 keepers. John had about 7 or 8 and Will was one shy from limiting.





Me and John ended seasick on our way back. Lol We took turns turning blue and dry heaving.

The spoils of the day.



My cousin made some tartar sauce from scratch and it was better than any store bought brand. I soaked the fillets in milk for a good hour then made a corn meal/ flour.






I deep fried two of the reds seasoned with just chicken boullion.
It came out better than I thought it would.



Finished tacos!!



Spiderman for just because.

Big thanks to John for the invite and letting me use one of his rigs to catch my first rock fish off a kayak. And a just as big thank you to Will for putting is on fish!! I had an awesome time today and got to meet other BWE members out there as well, so all and all it was a good day.

Airborne All The way!!

Paul





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