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Headed out just before sunrise out of OC this morning in search of the ruby-lipped devils . We marked a ton of bait while we were headed for our first wreck and decided to stop and jig for a few minutes . No bites so we continued for our tog spot . Shortly after we set the hook , Mark gets the first tog of the day , a respectable fish . A little while later I got one . Not really what we were looking for as far as quality , but decent fish . We moved around a few times as the morning wore on and ended up back at our original spot . After hearing lots of radio chatter about a decent rockfish bite to the north and with little time left ,(Dean had to work and Chris and Mark had to watch the Ravens game) we headed up to the high rise condo area to find a lot of boats striper fishing . We had two Stretch 25's on the boat so we deployed them on two tog rods . We caught one keeper at 29" and in the box it went . With little time left we trolled around for a few more minutes and then headed for the dock . Weather was very nice and it was great to get out with some great guys . Catching some nice fish was a bonus.:yes: The rockfish bite has been very good the last few days with some boats catching over 100 fish , mostly using live eels , trolling and sometimes on the jig . Saw a lot of gannets headed further out past the 3 mile limit so you know there are some bigger fish out there . They don't allow the "harassment" of stripers outside the 3 mile zone so don't even think about catch and release . Plenty of nice fish inside and a lot of fish were being caught very close to the beach .We ended up with 9 or 10 keeper tog and the one rock. Here are a few pics . Chris , if you read this , who put a whuppin' on'em today ?(I got my limit):yes:
Pretty bad when you have to give keepers away to the crew:yes::hysterical::roflguy:





