Team BlueSteel hit the water around 530am to fish the 14th Annual
Simmons and White KWD and to defend our 2011 Title. Everything seemed
promising until we got on the water. Seas were dead flat with no wind
early on. We found a little bit of bait near the pier but it was like
pulling teeth to get them to bite. After hearing the kings were biting
in 110' off the pier and lost tree we headed straight to there at 7am.
Before we could even get a good chum line going we were surrounded by
Triggerfish and they were hitting our baits before even getting to the
lower water column. We moved several times and finally got away from
them. Once we settled in we started slaying Bonito and Jacks of all
kinds. We made a decision after an hour of constantly battling the
Bonito to move further South in hopes of finding kings or Dolphin. We
fishing anywhere from 80-300' and could not find anything that started
with a K, D or W. What little wind there was later in the day was coming
out of the north. This along with a lack of current pushed our drifts
to the South, Southeast and Southwest. We did have a couple of bite offs
from Kings but nothing every came of it. We then decided to start
trolling around 11 to see if we can generate something to weigh in
however we came up short and decided to drift the last few minutes of
the tournament. After the Queen Trigger and the Scorpion Fish we knew
our time was not today. With storms building we decided to head home and
then drive cars to the weigh in only to find a grand slam had been
caught. Water temps were in the low 80's, current was non-existent, and
winds were light.
