I finally found some time to go out after the Albies. We launched out of Mission Bay at 4am to head out the 302 area. We dropped the jigs in the water and started dragging. 5 minutes into trolling we lost the bait pump and watched a scoop and a half die on us x(

We trolled around for a few hours and steadliy watched the water temps drop from 66 to 65 to 64.6. As soon as we found the 64 degree water we had a jig strike. First albie!! We marked the spot and began to box the area until we had a double strike! I dropped back the Hammer on the slide hoping for a third (since we had no bait) and was not rewarded. We land the fish and go back to trolling. Within 5 minutes we had another albie on the line. Things were looking good and then the Bonita moved in. We caught a few Bonita and then nothing for hours. The bite had died on us so we looked for patties.

No patties in the 30 mile run back in. We ended up with 4 albies and a handful of bonita. Albies were 18-30 pounds. With all the chatter on the radio it seems that we were one of the top boats in the area. Maybe if the guys spent less time asking for spots they could have caught more fish. My buddy was on a 1 1/2 day they same time and they had 7 for the boat. It just seems that Sunday was not the day to fish for albies.