Offshore Saturday - Eastside

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We were out also on Saturday, began our day once on spot picking up a good number of BSB's, then the bite turned to a nice representation of american reds and beeliners. The AR's came in a variety of sizes which 4 we were able to keep and released the others for next season. Beeliners same, but we were able to keep a couple more of them. Had our typical shark contributions. Then all heck broke loose when a live bait I had caught earlier on squid, turned it around as bait, after an hour or so sticking and playing on the bottom got picked up by an old drum. This guy fought me really good, 5-6 drag screaming runs before I could get him up and in sight to know what we had. I thought from the fight it was a drum, and so once we vented it very carefully we released it back and it hauled buckets back to the depths. Collectively we were bringing more old drum up, then the pattern switched to puppy, and we decided to move cause we were too far offshore to be able to keep any and in 120' of water we were concerned for the survivability... Anchored on another spot, caught more BSB, couple beeliners, one AR and called it a day. We were out on the eastside, somewhere I never had been before and I did not ask...2' predicted seas early, turned to snotty and confused late but got in just at dark thirty... Fun and safe day with excellent table fare. Here are a couple of representative shots....