July 21st 2013: Peanuts, Pollack, and Stripers...but no macks.

Launched around 6 AM in a north shore harbor with 2 friends of mine. Lots of peanut bunker in the harbor. I caught a couple schoolies hanging around the peanuts while I was waiting for my friend to catch up. Nothing big inside that I could find.

Headed out into deeper water looking for macks. Couldn't find any macks, but I did find a bunch of harbor pollack on a 20' hump surrounded by 40' of water. They swarmed the sabiki rig.  Filled up my bait tube and headed towards the rocks. We dragged the pollacks in a 3-way school for a while, but no hits or runs on the pollack. As we came around a rock island, I saw some birds acting excited. Paddled over there and it wasn't really a blitz, but the stripers would pop bait on the surface about every 30 minutes or so. In between, they were just cruising around, but would readily hit a kastmaster or a magnum super fluke. We caught mostly schoolies up to 30" fish. I thought about keeping it, but decided to let it go for good karma. I did keep 3 harbor pollack and threw them on the grill. Tasty little bottom fish. Sort of like eating trout, but tastes like pollack with more bones. 

Here's some pics...