07/02/2009 Offshore Fishing Report

One benefit to having your hours cut at work is you get off work at noon on a Thursday before July 4th weekend and can fish all afternoon and evening. We cleared the inlet with showers and storms virtually everywhere. Once they dissipated, the seas calmed and the bonito frenzy was on. We could hear and see Bonito feeding anywhere from 30 feet to 150 feet of water. The ocean sounded like popcorn popping in the microwave. Doug was catching Bonito after Bonito on topwater plugs and we were pretty much catching them with every drop of a sardine. We ran down to Breakers and Jackman caught a nice Mutton for dinner. We are still struggling with the night fishing with no bites after sundown but we called it an early night anyhow since we were going out early on Friday.