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[Matt]

Tired, busy, and forgot to post a report

As many of you have noticed from reports on here or getting out there yourselves, the kingfish bite is essentially "on".

We've found red hot bites at the distant ships anchored up out of Port A over the last ten days or so, and Saturday was no exception.

We left about 7am and went to the furthest ships. The "lift ship" (not sure if that's what it's called, it's named 'Treasure') had been holding a ton of kings, but the bite was slow there.

We moved to the ship south of that one, and started getting to work. Still a slow bite, but a good half dozen Menhaden cut into chum got them going. They were hitting flat lines (unweighted with a pink skirt) not far behind the boat while we were still letting them out. Classic King bite the way it should be. Ribbonfish and whole Menhaden worked equally well.

I'll put it this way: one of our customers was eating a sandwich, and threw the crust overboard. A King came up and ate it. 9:30 until we finished up at about 11, it was pure chaos. Also managed a 30lb Ling off the same ship, which was a nice bonus.

Kept our captain/crew limits on Kings since we can, and needed to repay some favors with fresh fish. 16 Kings, 1 Ling, close to 200lbs on the hoof.

Forecast said 3 foot, but it got a little sporty out there. Looking at the 5 day on NOAA, it's going to be crappy for us this weekend--and extremely un-friendly to our adventurous kayakers over the weekend

I'll post a report Saturday evening or Sunday. Here's to hoping our customers start taking Dramamine now
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[bigwell]

We're coming down to port A June 6th to target the kings ourselves. I here from a few people that there is a bunch of sow snapper at the close rigs as well.
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