Fishing Report: May 8th&9th

With a favorable ocean forecast and an unrestricted bar, we headed south to Three Arches, myself, Troy and Scott. On the way we dropped six pots about a mile south of the south jetty in about 55’ of water. The fishing was slow, but we each managed to get a keeper ling cod, and a few sea bass. Troy caught a very nice cabezon which was sent back without injury. We were hoping it was a good sized ling, oh well.

Picked up the crab pots on the way back in, and were quite pleased to have 22 keeper crab out of the six pots. The wind was picking up, as it usually does in the afternoon, I do not like to stay down south too late in the afternoon, can make for a rough ride back.

Troy was excited to try my new electric crab pot puller, this makes pulling up 600 feet of line, 100 feet per pot, a breeze. You have to pay attention though, the pots come up pretty fast. I purchased the Trac line hauler TRC-T10250 from Portland Marine Electronics and had them install it for me. This was the second time using this puller, and I really like it. PME installed it just where I wanted it, and wired it all up. Installation may require drilling some holes, it mounts on a Scotty downrigger base, SCY-1026. If you are going to have it installed you should be sure and discuss the mounting location and what the expense will be.