Took everyone over to the rocks I know and we started trying for the rockfish and the monkey faced eels. After a quick teaching lesson for the several people there we went work and everyone found the eels biting right off the bat.
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The eels and the small rock fish were coming out of the rocks pretty frequently and everyone was having fun.
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I had a great time seeing everyone here having a ball. For most of the people I had with me here, this was their first fishing experience in many years or even at all. Which made it great seeing everyone doing so well. Myself and one other
My self with a decent one
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and my friend Erik with his first.
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After we got the rock fish biting we were hitting em on every cast and it was just straight fun all around.
Elijah with one of his.
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My friend Peter set a new PB for biggest eel I've ever seen come out of this area.
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Aaron with his first rock fish and eel
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We stayed until dark and filled a bucket full of fish and eels for what will be a great
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Next day I woke up early to catch the sunrise and after I got to see that I woke a couple of people to go and check the pots. After a full over night soak in all 5 pots we still were only pulled up 2 rocks and one keeper dungie. All of the bait in the pots were gone though. I'm not surprised that small crabs would have taken all of the bait though, but I would think we would have found a few more smaller crabs in the pot. I kind of doubt that they would have been raided, there was next to know one out there. We only saw one other pot the entire time we've been here. Bait em back up with some fresh rock fish carcasses and hope for the best.
Low tide came back around about 1530 today and we made our way back to the rocks to try for the eels and rock fish again. We found the eels still biting but rock fish was a different
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A few of us tried and tried for the rock fish and we got a couple to bite, but after the hurting we put on them yesterday the bite was pretty tough. I decided to give that up for a while and try a bit of clamming. Two friends and myself managed to pump
up a few gapers and while doing so I kept remembering how windy it was
this morning and how it might be worse tomorrow morning and we have to
leave then. I check the weather real quick and saw the 15 mph wind
forecast in the morning and made the call that we needed to bring the
pots in now before it got really dark on us. A couple of my friends
stayed and said the rockfish bite got better when we left which was
great to hear. 
Got the pots and came back in all safe and sound for 1 nice red and 7 legal dungies for the five pots out. I don't know if the fresh cod made the difference that improved out luck or not, but it was nice to finally see something coming up in the pots.
Came back and enjoyed our last
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Next morning I took a look at the seas and was happy to see I made the right call to pull the pots the night before. The wind was causing some serious white caps out there, making some less then ideal conditions that I was very glad I didn't have to go into.
Cooked the last of our fish and all of the crab for lunch to put an end to our awesome trip. Very happy to see everyone had a great time even the few that didn't fish with me. Got to introduce and reintroduce a few people back into this marvelous sport and we all can't wait to come back.
Until Next Time Guys
Mark
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