Report by Dave Shill
Our first offshore charter aboard the Outrider left the landing at 1pm on Thursday, May 27th for a reverse 1.5 day trip targeting white seabass. The 10 FIBers aboard were all very excited about fishing this new boat, and recent reports had the biscuits biting again. The Outrider is a beautiful 50′ Delta sportfisher built in 1976 that has been meticulously refurbished by owner John Pittman, he himself doing much of the work. It is very clean and comfortably accommodated our group of ten. After meeting up with the Truline who passed off a couple scoops of fresh squid to us, we hit the east end of Catalina Thursday evening. On our second stop, we got two biscuits to bite, landing both right before dark. With a couple aboard, we were looking forward to the next early morning bite. Unfortunately, it never really happened for us. We landed many small Calicos throughout the trip, a few rockfish, and one 50# grade batray, but no more seabass. We returned home Friday evening a bit disappointed, but nevertheless thankful for the opportunity to fish a really great new boat. Let’s hope and pray the next trip in June turns it around for us! Thanks to owner John Pittman, who did a great job cooking for us, Capts. Jeff Jessup and Paul Working, and crew member Manny for working hard for us. We’ll see you again! Thanks to our Lord who’s goodness and mercies never end!
