The Mirage trip was good. The White Sea-bass were no show again, but the rock codding was excellent! All fisherman went home with limits. Our adventure began at 9pm when all boarded the boat in our Fib’ers orderly line. We had 17 on board; two bad backs reduced our numbers by two at the last minute. We began fishing dark early morning with live squid. Adam caught the first two fish, a bat ray and a sand-dab. The sand-dab came aboard at 7:15. We stayed for a few more hours trying for the ghost fish to show; they did not. No one in the fleet, according to the Captain, caught a white sea-bass. We were fishing our “secret” spot
with at least 15 other boats.
After using all of our patience, we left for the rock fishing. Our first drop was a success and the rest of morning was spent limiting out on rock cod. Rob Whitaker won the Jack Pot with 5.1 cod. Several slightly smaller cod in the 4+ pound range were also caught. One legal lingcod was caught, plus several sole also hit the decks. On the
way to port we stopped several times to fish for some whitefish; 24 were boarded. Our crew was super and the fishing charter group was a nice mixture of experienced Fib’ers plus several ones new to our group. The ocean was smooth both ways. We docked about 6:40 and all headed home.
As an annual tradition we celebrated Paula’s 35th Birthday with cupcakes for all and Val leading “Happy Birthday.”

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