Fished Wed. and Thurs out of Barcelona. Like Ray said found fish about 6 miles west of the harbor in 80-100 fow. Trying something new to me turned out to be a disaster. I tried running 4 slide-divers with 50ft behind the diver. Having a newbe and terrible driver, I spend a part of the day untangling ....errrrrr. I finally smarted up and ran short leads.....10ft or so and after a bunch of lure trials with help from Fred Forsythe from Castaway charters..... blue dreamweavers, blue harness, and a black/purple harness, purple DW netted 4 nice wallys in the 22-26in range. White bass were a little pain with the harnesses.....but also hit one on the spoon, along with a couple of sheepheads. Plus it was HOT and FLAT..... burnt to a crisp...should have went in, got the motel and went back out for and evening run........next time.
Thursday the harbormaster said there was a good catch at 125-135 a couple of miles west..... went for a long boat ride checking it out.....lots of bait but didn't mark any fish..... Went back to finish spot of wednesday and soon as we were set up it 2 within 20 min.... Purple harness, and blue DW SS. After that it was s slow pick to get 5 more combination of harnesses and spoons..... but the fish were getting deeper..... the last couple came 190----220 out on my braid line divers... Bonus of the day was a 8-9 pound rainbow.... on the purple harness..... About that time it started to kick from the NE and the 2-4 with occasional 5 made for along ride in..... Would like to try it again this year maybe out of Dunkirk......Capt John how long b/4 the fish start heading back to the west?